La petite Vache

La Petite vache is one of the oldest cheese shops in Brussels. It is located on the Place Saint-Josse, near the Madou esplanade. Our story begins in 1913, with the Laiterie de l'Aigle, when Leopold-Charles and Louise Uyttendaele opened a creamery-grocery in Rue Malibran, Ixelles. In 1934, they moved to Saint-Josse and changed their name to the present-day Petite Vache, which has been run by three generations of passionate Uyttendaeles ever since. In the 1950s, with the rapid urbanisation of Brussels, the Chaussée de Louvain was renovated and widened. The neo-classical house that housed the little cow was replaced by a small building of its time and the cheese dairy was completely rebuilt. Since then, nothing has changed, or almost nothing. You will find the decor of a typical Brussels creamery from the 1950s. In 2020, a page has been turned. After more than 40 years of passion for cheese, Martine and Charles Uyttendaele (known as Charly) have handed in their apron... and a new page has been turned. After more than four years at the head of the Plateau du Berger (in Ixelles) and not a little proud to have given back its letters of nobility to Madame Jeannine's cheese dairy, their team and her are happy to have taken over the Petite Vache and to give it a new lease of life. They will perpetuate these values: taste, good food, farmhouse!