Petite Breakfast Chive

We’re celebrating our 160th anniversary in 2025 with new formats and flavors of the cheese that put us on the map. Petite Breakfast Chive is a flavorful new take on a historic favorite.   We’ve been crafting Breakfast Brie at Marin French since the late 1800’s. For over a century, this deliciously unique cheese has won the hearts of locals and visitors. What is a fresh brie? This cheese uses the same recipe and the same artisanal cheesemaking process as our other brie varieties but skips the aging room. The result is a fresh cheese that lacks a bloomy white rind and has a tangy flavor and slightly springy texture, reminiscent of cheese curds. Petite Breakfast is infused with chopped chives, adding vibrant herbaceous flavor and a savory finish.  Petite Breakfast brie has a rich history, originally created as a protein-packed alternative for gold miners turned Bay Area dock workers in the late 1800’s. As the Gold Rush waned and the San Francisco Bay Area experienced a population boom, th