La Ferme du Champ de Mars - in English

I'm ready to buy an apartment in Paris; I wish my bank account were ready too.  The picture that is at the top of my blog is actually a picture from an awesome apartment in the 15th Arrondisement on Avenue de Suffren.  This is literally right across the street from the Eiffel Tower.  Although the neighborhood has the potential to be a little too touristy, there is really a nice mixture of souvenir shops and local stores.

One of those local stores is a cheese shop right around the corner from the "Eiffel Tower Loft" -  the name we gave the apartment - called "La Ferme du Champ de Mars" located on rue Desaix.  This fromagerie has no website, no fancy storefront, it's just a place to buy authentic cheese

Only being in Paris a few hours, we were a little intimidated to go into the shop, but we were hungry and we wanted cheese.  We had just bought a steaming hot baguette from the boulanger down the street and our mouths were salivating from the smell of the bread and the look of the cheese.

When we walked into the shop, we were greeted by the warm smile of the woman behind the counter. She spoke no English and I had still not gotten my sea legs, so our transaction took a little longer than it maybe should have taken. We all did a lot of pointing, a lot of smiling and a lot of tasting.

So, we walked out of there with a small wheel of Camembert and pepper Brie. After tasting the Camembert, we went back and bought 14 more wheels - one for each of our wedding welcome bags. The pepper Brie has become an obsession of ours.  We have not been able to find anything like it here in the US and can't wait to get back to Paris to eat it again.  We leave in less than three weeks and I know that there are a lot of fromageries in Paris, but La Ferme du Champ de Mars is on our list of first stops!

Fred and I rented this apartment for our last trip to Paris in September/October 2008 (for our wedding).