Dancu Tabita · Cașcaval de Dancu
Cheese dairy with daily-fresh products, in-store tastings and a yellow-orange façade by the Hîncești highway
Trio tasting at the shop: 6-month-aged cașcaval, fresh urdă and cheese-with-dill — taste before you buy, plus 1L of fresh daily milk
Worth it if you're passing through Hîncești and care about farm cheese — samples of aged cașcaval, fresh urda and dill cheese, plus fresh milk. A short stop for local tastes.
Dancu Tabita has been making cașcaval in Dancu village, just off the Chișinău-Hîncești highway, for over a decade. The small shop attached to the dairy has a yellow-orange façade, a round 'Cașcaval de Dancu' sign above the door and a chalkboard A-board with 'Welcome!' at the entrance. Inside you'll find cașcaval at various ages (fresh, semi-aged, 6-month-aged), urdă, cheese with dill and with caraway, plus daily milk. The hours are generous (8–20 Mon-Thu, 8–22 Fri-Sat, 24h Sundays), perfect for a stop on the way south. Locals know it as one of the most consistent small cheese makers in the area.
- Consistently fresh cashcaval — locals come back weekly
- Multiple ages and styles (fresh, semi-aged, 6-month, dill, caraway)
- Free in-store tastings before you buy
- Generous opening hours including all-day Sunday
- Convenient highway stop on the road south
- The yellow-orange façade with the round 'Cașcaval de Dancu' sign and the welcome A-board
- Display case with cașcaval rounds stacked by age, labels in chalk
- A fresh wheel just sliced open on the counter, milky-yellow inside
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“It was the best place to visit while visiting maldova! Whoever visits here, they need to here and try their various cheeses. They are freshly made here and there is a bakery in the making. Cheese tasting was a lot of fun”
“This is a wonderful place! So inspiring how they started from nothing to build up to where they are today; bread, cheese, milk, coffee shop, pastries, a dairy farm, crops, and more. It all began with a vision of “the golden tree” given by God and they have followed His leading all along the way. Fabulous!”
“Our group had the honor of visiting Dimitri’s cheese operation. He’s a brilliant, compassionate, determined individual that shared his amazing story. We were touched and blessed to meet him and and family.”
- A simple village shop — no café or seating
- Limited English, but staff are friendly and patient
- Stock varies — some specialty cheeses sell out by afternoon