oakdale cheese & specialties

Visited this place with my girlfriend, who has a slight obsession with Cheese :-)Upon arrival, the store seemed very quiet, and we quickly realized the tour was actually just a view through each of the windows. However, we did speak to someone working there and there is a quick video to watch about the process of cheese making if you are interested.For lunch, I had the chocolate almond cheesecake (?) and she had the gouda grilled cheese. Mine was full of sugar and hers was excellent. Also, this store has a lot of local product for sale as well, just not their own.

This is a family owned and operated business. Not very big, but has great cheese and amazing people who work there.

Every time we go through Oakdale, on the way to the Bay area from Yosemite, we have to stop to feed the goats and llama and chickens and of course get a grilled cheese sandwich. This last time we had delicious tomato soup with our sandwiches. The outside picnic tables are next to the little lake with giant koi and a weeping willow for shade. Its just a fun little place to see how cheese is made, taste samples and let the kids run around. It is just south of town on the highway and open most of the time. It is a family run business which always makes me feel better than spending money on a fast food megachain.

First of all we love the cheese and place. My daughter who has autism loves the animals. She can spend hours feeding and petting them. The Koi pond is beautiful. Always able to find unique gifts in the store too.

Was driving North to Sacramento and drove by the Oakdale Cheese Factory and decided to turn around and go back and see what was there. It was a Friday and they weren't making cheese that day but did have a video. They have lots of different cheeses and meats to choose from and Gouda is their specialty. They had a bunch of samples too. While there on the adjacent property there were ducks, a llama, and other animals. The kids would love it.

Oakdale Cheese & Specialties is located on Route 120 in Oakdale, California, about 30 miles southeast of Stockton. It's open daily from 9 AM to 6 PM (5 PM in winter) except Christmas Day and Thanksgiving Day. Signage is poor, so it's easy to miss if you're traveling fast along the highway. The place includes the cheese-making facility where you can take a free self-guided tour, a small cramped gift shop, and lovely grounds including a large koi pond, picnic tables, dog run, and a barnyard with kid-friendly animals. Free parking is available in an on-site lot. Family owned and operated, it's kind of laid-back and lacking in polish, so you need to put aside high expectations on service. But it's definitely worth a stop if you love cheese. I give it three and one-half stars.The gift shop features their signature handcrafted gouda in many different flavors as well as other cheeses, a bread and dessert bakery, and a selection of kitchen goods and gourmet packaged foods. You can also have a grilled gouda cheese sandwich with coffee or a beverage from the refrigerator case, chips, or cookies. It's very Plain Jane, but serves as a decent light lunch or snack that you can enjoy while sitting on a shaded picnic bench by the pond.

In Oakdale for a night, and saw this on Yelp and since we are cheese lovers, popped in! They have nice picnic grounds with pond, ducks, animals to feed, and a little cheese shop with samples. We bought the Quark Sun-dried Tomato spread- yummy! We looked for the grilled cheese sandwiches but didn’t see it advertised inside and didn’t ask. We went to the nearby Grocery outlet for some crackers for our new spread. Nice place to stop and relax a bit in a busy little town.

Almost passed it by but made a quick turn to investigate and glad we did. Family-run business with samples of most products.Please stop to buy some gouda. Must also try the quark from their original Dutch recipe.

We stopped here because it looked so cute. The Gouda cheese is very good, but the customer service is terrible. I felt like the gal that checked us out would rather be any where but there helping us

I was born in Holland and I have been buying cheese ever since they opened up. From the beginning we found the cheese superior to what you buy in Holland. My personal favorite is the cumin. Some of the cheeses imported from Holland tend to be somewhat bitter. Not so the Oakdale cheeses. I have visited their factory over the years and have seen considerable improvement in the facilities. It made me think of visiting Knotts Berry Farm when they got started in the 50's. I think that young children would enjoy the place in view of the animals. I am presently 83 and no longer able to deal with an amusement park. All the best of luck to John and Jessica Bulk. My regards to your parents. Willem Ridder, Roseville,CA

The cheese making is shut down on weekends, so you only get to look through windows and guess. The grilled cheese sandwiches made a decent snack, but the cheese samples were each about 1/8" square, barely enough to taste. The best part was the beautiful grounds with the pond and the animals (even though you could not actually go into their enclosure, the goats were funny. I would not drive more than 10 minutes out of my way to go here.

OK. To be honest, I have not been inside this Cheese Factory, because most locals decided to Boycott the place when they cut down many of the trees that used to line both sides of the highway just before they built the place - without permission. Those trees were OLD and we really loved them, and they are gone forever because they wanted to make sure people would see their new business while driving by. So, as far as I know, the locals all boycott to this day. You can boycott too if you'd like. But the one thing I had from there was a grilled Gouda cheese sandwich picked up by a friend once and brought to my house, and it wasn't very good.

This place produces an excellent Gouda Cheese, from straight ahead gouda to smoked to herb infused and it is all of a superb quality. We stopped on our way home from a vacation up Sonora Pass a few years ago. We had not been back since then until this last weekend and found that everything was still just as good. We also picked up a REALLY good sour dough baquette. We picked up some Onion Quark, too. I'd read about quark but had not tasted it before. It's like a spread with a good tang to it and we found it different and fun. They have a nice, shaded area for picnicing, a fenced off area displaying some of their livestock, a pond and a dog run area which can be very handy when traveling with your pet. Remember, they did not have to provide the dog run so please clean up after your pet. It makes it nicer for the owners and the next users. If you're headed through town and like a good cheese you have to check this place out, even if you don't have a dog.

Passing through Oakdale, this is a great stop. See the making of the cheese, taste the cheese and take some home with you. Lots of other products to choose from. Well worth a stop.

Great place to take the family to see how cheese is made. They have live animals out back and really nice gardens. Elementary schools in the area always visit this wonderful place on field trips.