The oldest cheese shop in Brussels
Our story
More than a century of cream, butter and cheese: on Place Saint-Josse, La Petite Vache still welcomes you in the setting of a 1950s Brussels dairy shop.
- 1913
The Laiterie de l'Aigle
It all begins in Ixelles. Léopold-Charles and Louise Uyttendaele open a dairy and grocery shop at 18 Rue Malibran: the Laiterie de l'Aigle.
- 1934
La Petite Vache is born
The couple moves to Saint-Josse and the shop takes the name it still bears today. Three generations of Uyttendaeles will run it with passion.
- 1950s
The setting you know
Brussels is growing fast and the Chaussée de Louvain is widened. The neoclassical house makes way for a small building of its time, and the shop is completely refitted. Nothing has changed since: you step into a typical 1950s Brussels dairy shop.
- 2020
One chapter ends, another begins
After more than forty years of honest treats, Martine and Charles “Charly” Uyttendaele hang up their aprons. Julie Moulia, who had been running Le Plateau du Berger in Ixelles for a few years, takes over La Petite Vache with her team and gives it a new lease of life.
- 2026
The little sister, in Uccle
Julie takes over the Poissonnerie de France on Avenue Montjoie and turns it into the little sister of La Petite Vache. The adventure goes on, the tradition lives on.
« Flavour, quality, farmhouse! »
We taste everything
No cheese reaches our counter without being tasted first.
We know our producers
Farmers, affineurs and winemakers, through the shortest supply chain possible.
We cut to order
The right piece, at the right ripeness, for the right moment.
