This is a great place to take the family to learn all about how dairies work and how cheese is made. They have great exhibits throughout the building that are Hands-On. They even offer ice cream making tours on weekends. Huge variety of cheeses available for purchase as well as all you can eat samples! Plus, the factory cafe offers great sandwiches and crazy good pizzas all using their freshly made cheese. Don't miss this place and beautiful grounds.

The visitor center is an amazing pitstop if you are in the area and love cheese. They have a Peet’s coffee store, local ice cream shop and a food court inside. Special cheese manufacturing sessions for kids with great displays and intuitive design. Highly recommended!!!

Great place to visit. Be sure to see the displays upstairs as well as try the goodies, ice cream, cheese and check the gift shop. We like the curds.

A wonderful experience, loved the many jellies to try and the deli was wonderful. Lots of very informative article boards to read describing the whole cheese making process. A family friendly location, it is only 2 floors and pretty short but it's well done. Really enjoyed the outside waterfall garden with a full flowing stream, you can take some wonderful photos there or just hangout and enjoy a small picnic, would definitely recommend and will definitely return.

This place was fantastic! I've never even heard about this cheese factory before. The young lady leading the group of kids did an outstanding job with them! I enjoyed it as well as the kids. The Cafe food was fresh and tasted so good! I would go there just to eat. They had quite the selection of jams, cheese, crackers a few meats. You could get everything for a appetizer tray.

Great place! Super educational, well maintained and neat, and really good cheese. We enjoyed their little movie that talks about how it all works.

Very neat n clean. Tours offered seems very interesting and useful for students.. staff members were friendly too

Not bad. They don't do guided tours during the afternoon so most likely you won't get a guided tour. However, you can still wander around the gift shop/cafe and the upstairs area on your own. There is also a park like area outside which is nice. There are free cheese samples but they were mostly out of cheese when I was there. Upstairs, there are some interesting things to check out and an area where you can see people working in the factory. The upstairs room is mostly geared towards children but still enjoyable for teens and adults.

Food was delicious. We loved all of the items in the store. Hubby is a cheese person so the selection of different cheeses was great. Tour is geared towards toddlers so definitely bring your kids. The waterfall and flowers on the grounds are also beautiful.

Always a great place to stop in! Sandwiches are super good. And nice selection of cheese and gifts. You can also get ice cream and coffee.

It's one of the best stops for lunch! All of their sandwiches are delicious, but their cheese soup is amazing! Plus, there's a wine shop, an opportunity to buy cheese, and super cute home decor. It's definitely worth the stop!

No trip is complete without a yummy snack of squeekers! Every day is a different flavor. You can call ahead to see what they have out each morning. In addition to squeekers, they carry many different types of cheeses from all over. They sell beer and wine, snacks, home decor and more! Stop by for fresh ice cream, cheesecake or brownies in many suprise flavors too! Great place to grab lunch, cheese soup, grilled cheese, fried squeekers, and other items too.

Very nice visitors center. Good salads and sandwich. Free cheese samples. Good prices.

I love coming here because the ice cream is yummy. I haven't had a chance to eat at the restaurant, but I am sure it is just as good. The gift shop has great items. This visit, it was decked out with Christmas items and some of their regularly stocked gifts. The premises are always clean and beautiful and inside is as well. The staff is friendly and helpful, they always are. Thank you for everything. I highly recommend coming here. And one more thing, the tours are fun for the whole family. My husband and I went on a tour around 2010. It was informative and fun. Now that we have a child, we want to go on another tour soon.

Attended a group luncheon event in the big room. Buffet food was ok. It is costly to host an event at Hilmar Cheese, but hands down the nicest, "showiest" venue in the area. Our out-of-town guests were so impressed. Only disappointed was that the downstairs area was closed by the time we ended at 2 pm.

Nice and clean and everyone was so polite. Snack bar (even though I don't have any), the sandwiches and the warmed cookies were good, and other snacks looked great. Cheeses are great and love the squeaker cheese strange but I like it. Thank you.

If you ever find yourself near Hilmar take a detour to this place. Its a great place to give kids a fun interactive tour into the process of making cheese for a good price. I would personally go for the ice cream making tour a few bucks and the tour is just that much better. Great staff, great cheese, and fun exhibits

Took the tour, highly recommend it, learned alot about how our California cheese is made and how the process works. Friendly staff. I also ordered a hot sandwich called" Bacon me Crazy" super delicious.

Super fun and educational for the kids. We did the ice cream making activity and watched the moovie. It was cute.

Here's my official report on yesterday's Field Trip to the Hilmar Cheese Company. How fun... and STINKY! The Hilmar Cheese Company has an immersive educational experience for school-aged children. While I imagine that it can be tailored to those younger than my Second Graders, I think that classes up to about Fifth Grade would enjoy this trip. Our time spent there started off by watching an interactive video hosted by "Daisy The Cow" in front of a large display. It explained to us how the dairy process is sustainable and recyclable, all while showing us exactly how it was done. After the video was over, we headed upstairs to a big observation room where the kids did a science experiment. They shook their own cream, sugar and vanilla in aluminum containers with ice to make fresh vanilla ice cream. Our Tour Guides taught us a cute song about sustainable dairy farming, then took us through the educational stations where we got to see it for ourselves. If you would like to see it for yourself in under three minutes, please take a look at my reel for the day at @katiewileydesign on IG.

So much good stuff in this place. So much to look at. Fresh lunch is prepared and a coffee bar. So much fresh and local products. Fave hard to come by product is the squeakers! And they have pepper jack now. Yumm!!! They have a wide variety of cheeses, nuts, jams, glazes, decorations. Love the variety. Wish they were open longer on the weekends. Hard to make it there sometimes.

I just received my last chemotherapy treatment. I saw a stuffed Carey calf to carry around because it was so soft. But was going to put it back on the shelf, we purchased our cheeses and drinks and Jordan behind the counter said I will purchase the calf for you without hesitation . I just stayed bawling, it will be a reminder of beating cancer. Thank you Jorden what a wonderful beautiful person.

Wife was disappointed with th3 changes since her last visit. Most of the cheese for sale are from other producers. Lunch was GREAT and so are the jams we bought.

Good place good people. They speak Spanish I also recommend it