Blue cheese dressing certainly isn’t the most popular dressing in America. As you may have guessed, ranch dressing takes the crown. However, that doesn’t mean that there aren’t plenty of blue cheese dressing brands available for those who love it.
Here are 12 popular brands you should consider using for your next topping, dip, or flavoring.
Blue Cheese Dressing Brands
Bolthouse Farms
Website: bolthouse.com
Bolthouse began as a vegetable farm in Michigan in the early 1900s. They eventually focused on carrot farming and expanded operations to Bakersfield, California to allow for extended production. While Bolthouse still produces carrots, they also manufacture beverages and dressings.
The company makes a chunky blue cheese. The dressing as no artificial preservatives or flavors. It is gluten-free and made with yogurt.
Briannas
Website: briannas.com
Briannas began as a small operation in the early 1980s out of Austin, Texas. They have grown tremendously since the early days of working out of a home kitchen to produce small quantities of dressing at a time. The company released organic dressings in 2019 made with premium ingredients and the superior taste you expect from Briannas.
The company make a creamy blue cheese dressing along with 21 other tasty dressings.
Daiya
Website: daiyafoods.com
Daiya has become one of the favorite dairy alternative food companies in North American and beyond. The company’s dairy-free dressings contain no gluten, soy or eggs. They are made with plant-based ingredients yet aren’t lacking in flavor.
Daiya makes a Blue Cheeze dressing without the dairy like a traditional blue cheese dressing.
Ken’s Steak House
Website: kensfoods.com
Ken’s Steak House started as a restaurant in Framingham, Massachusetts. The customers loved the salad dressings so much that they requested them to be bottled for home meal use. The owners, Ken and Florence Hanna, licensed the business name for manufacturing in 1958. A new dressing brand was born and has now become one of the major dressing manufactures in the United States.
Ken’s makes four types of Blue Cheese Dressing. These are:
- Chunky Blue Cheese
- Lite Blue Cheese
- Creamy Wisconsin Blue Cheese
- Chef’s Reserve Blue Cheese with Gorgonzola
Kraft
Website: myfoodandfamily.com
Most readers likely know Kraft from its famous blue box macaroni and cheese. However, the company was making salad products many years before its mac & cheese was first launch in 1937. The first dressing flavor by Kraft was French which was released in 1925.
Kraft makes the following blue cheese products:
- Roka Blue Cheese Dressing
- Blue Cheese Dressing
- Chunky Blue Cheese Dressing
La Martinique
Website: reilyproducts.com
Reily Foods Company owns this brand of salad dressing. However, they are not only a blue cheese dressing brand. The company is also behind other brands you might of heard of such as Swans Down Cake Flour and Luzianne Tea. La Martinique makes a few salad dressings with one being a blue cheese vinaigrette.
Litehouse
Website: litehousefoods.com
While Litehouse makes numerous products today, it all started will a blue cheese recipe. Ed Hawkins was working as a chef in a restaurant where the blue cheese dressing was subpar. Ed wanted to fix this. After some think, he developed what is believed to be the first creamy blue cheese dressing.
Ed and his wife went on to purchase Hurschell’s Lighthouse restaurant in 1958 where his dressing become extremely popular. The couple began bottling and selling it to a local store in 1963. Of course, this initial blue cheese dressing brand greatly expand its sales and product line through the years.
The Litehouse blue cheese dressing are:
- Original Blue Cheese Dressing & Dip
- Lite Blue Cheese Dressing & Dip
- Bacon Blue Cheese Dressing & Dip
- Big Blue Dressing & Dip
- Chunky Blue Cheese Dressing & Dip
- Opa Blue Cheese Greek Yogurt Dressing
- Organic Blue Cheese Dressing & Dip
- Blue Cheese Vinaigrette Dressing
Marie’s
Website: maries.com
Marie Nordquist is the “Marie” who’s name appears on the product label. The chef of her cafe in Seattle, some 60+ years ago, produced a blue cheese dressing that customer couldn’t get enough of. The popularity of this dressing influenced the cafe to start bottling it for sale locally. It is now widely available and one you should give a try.
Marie’s make these blue cheese dressings:
- Chunky Blue Cheese Dressing & Dip
- Super Blue Cheese Dressing & Dip
- Lite Chunky Blue Cheese Dressing
- Blue Cheese Vinaigrette
Marzetti
Website: marzetti.com
Marzetti is another brand that began as a restaurant. Teresa and Joseph Marzetti opened an Italian restaurant near Ohio State University, which quickly became popular among students and locals. The homemade salad dressings produced by the Marzetti’s were particularly loved by the community. In 1955, part of the restaurant became dressing factory to capitalize on the popularity of the dressings.
Marzetti makes the following blue cheese dressings:
- Simply Dressed Blue Cheese Dressing
- Ultimate Blue Cheese Dressing
- Bold Blue Cheese Dressing
- Chunky Blue Cheese Dressing
- Lite Chunky Blue Cheese Dress
Panera Bread
Website: paneraathome.com
Panera offers a nice assortment of products that can be purchased for home use with the quality you’d expect from this company. In addition to dressings, the company makes soup, chili, mac & cheese, pasta products, sliced bread, and more.
One of the newer dressing made by Panera is a chunky blue cheese dressing & dip.
Walden Farms
Website: waldenfarms.com
Walden Farms salad dressings contain zero calories, fat, or carbs. Its dressings allow you to liven up your salads with extra flavor but without the guilt. Some of the primary ingredients of Walden’s Bleu Cheese Dressing include aged vinegars, ground herbs, and spices.
Wish-Bone
Website: wish-bone.com
The Wish-Bone brand originates from the Wish-Bone restaurant in Kansas City, Missouri. The restaurant was started in 1945 by Lena and Phillip Sollomi with Lena being the mother of Phillip.
Customers of the restaurant couldn’t get enough of Lena’s Sicilian Italian dressing. Bulk production began in response to the demand and bottles of the dressing began to be sold. The company is now owned by ConAgra.
While the company is best known for its Italian dressings, it does make several other products, including blue cheese. The blue cheese dressing are:
- Chunky Blue Cheese Dressing
- Light Chunky Blue Cheese Dressing
- Fat-Free Chunky Blue Cheese Dressing
Final Thoughts
We hope you were able to find a new blue cheese brand to try or at least learned about the popular brands out there. While a good salad dressing is hard to find, we think there are some quality options above.
