Cheese Tasting London

The London Cheese Crawl kicks off at Fortnum & Mason — the store that sells literal tonnes of Stilton a year — before working through two hours of trivia, cheese puns and free-flowing fizz, no formal sitting required, from £35. Cheese Afternoon Tea swaps scones for six British cheeses with their own condiment pairings, a grilled cheese sandwich each and a glass of Prosecco, served aboard a 96-foot double-decker barge moored on the Regent's Canal, from £69.

Funky Cheese + Shoreditch Day Date pairs a cheese and wine tasting with a wander through Shoreditch's record shops and vintage stores, from £49. Your City Cheese By Cheese runs the same two-hour crawl format in Edinburgh as well as London, complete with trivia and tastings at every stop, so it works even if you're not celebrating in the same city, from £35.

Cheese Tour and Tasting in Bath takes you behind the scenes to see how the cheese is actually made, with a tour of the maturing rooms and lunch included before you taste the results, from £69. Moving Northward, Cork and Cheese in Manchester runs the same tutored tasting format in the city's own tasting rooms, from £69, while back down the motorway, Wine and Cheese in the Cheddar Valley pairs the tasting with a proper vineyard wander through the countryside, from £169.

Your City Cheese By Cheese turns a night out into a proper pub-to-pub cheese trail across London or Edinburgh, from £35 — good if commitment means stamina rather than spend. For something to properly go all-in on in terms of budget, The Cheese Lovers Walk For Two takes that same trail format and stretches it into a full half-day, multi-stop crawl through Borough, from £398 for two.