Create the perfect Christmas cheeseboard with Blacks Corner

By Laura Kingston

About Blacks Corner

In 2015, Jonathan Dryden and Christopher Lowden from East Boldon put on a cheese and wine night for a friend’s birthday and were gifted an idea that there is much excitement about working with food and pairing flavours together around conversations with friends. A month later they made their way to Borough Market in London after nothing more than a phone call asking if they could volunteer on a stall to work with British farm produce.  

Two years later almost to the date, that market stall experience on Borough Market was realised into the dream of an award-winning cheese, wine & charcuterie called Blacks Corner that opened its doors to the public on 23 September 2017.

Blacks Corner is now recognised as the single largest retailer in the UK of British Charcuterie, and one of the largest cheese outlets in the region. It is one of only a handful of companies in the country responsible to a growing band of farms producing farmhouse cheeses and amazing cured meats. 

In November 2019, Blacks Corner expanded with a Delicatessen and Bakehouse offering fresh bread, farmhouse butters and free-range Cacklebean eggs alongside produce from 27 British cheese producers and 15 British charcuterie producers. 

Where do you find your cheeses?

We select and sell farmhouse cheeses from British farms and work closely with a cheese maturer in London to ensure we sell cheese when it reaches its best.  We work with incredible artisan producers who cover the length and breadth of England, Wales and Scotland with an approach to farming that not only good for the animals but also good for our plates. Britain’s farms produce amazing produce and finding cheese & charcuterie that reflects this is a huge driver for us.

1 St Bedes

East Boldon

NE36 0LE

Phone: 0191 536 3762

Email: [email protected]