An experienced, Gloucester-based street food stall bringing a taste of the Alps to your event.
We specialise in hot, melted Raclette & Fondue cheese, elevating ordinary dishes to a whole new level.
Traditionally produced & eaten in the Swiss & French Alps, Raclette is a semi-hard cheese with a nutty, milky flavour.
Originally known as ‘roasted cheese’, it was carried by shepherds when they were moving cattle. In the evening, the cheese would be placed by a campfire and heated until it softened, and was then scraped on to bread. Raclette, as it is now known, takes its name from the French verb Racler, which means ‘to scrape’. The photo below shows the earliest depiction of Raclette, painted in 1903 by Ernest Biéler.
We are very proud of the Raclette that we serve, sourcing it from an independent cheese producer, who creates both vegetarian and non-vegetarian wheels.
We heat our Raclette on traditional Swiss grills, ensuring that a perfect melting temperature is achieved, before scraping the Raclette on to a carefully prepared dish of your choice, not forgetting the all-important part; the ‘religeous’ - the heated, crispy rind, named because some say it tastes ‘Heavenly’. The dish is then topped with pickles, sweet crispy fried onions and fresh chives
Fondue
Fondue needs little introduction.
Dating back to the late 1800s, with roots in the French Rhône-Alpes region near the Geneva border, Fondue was consumed in the Swiss mountains, as a way to make use of leftover bread and cheese during colder months when fresh produce was scarce.
Although it is traditionally a communal dish, our 5-cheese fondue is made to take away. We use Greyere, Emmental, Raclette, Mozarella & Cheddar, not forgetting the essential ingredients - wine & garlic. We heat it to the perfect temperature to achieve that irresistible gooey, stringy texture that fondue is known for.
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Hello@themeltedcheesecompany.co.uk
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07825 884 921
