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Shopping
Sydney, and beyond?
use www.whereis.com.au to find locations |
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| Meat | Vic's Meats, 10 Merchant St, Mascot | Amazing variety. Personal service despite enormous commercial turnover. |
| Farmers Markets, Fox Studios, Moore park. Every Wednesday. | Wagyu beef from Condobolin, and poultry from | |
| Terry Wrights, 32 Clovelly Road Randwick | Possibly the best down under rump yet, always good. | |
| Fish | Sydney Fish Market | |
| Cabramatta | ||
| Cheese | Simon Johnson, Harris st. | Best kept cheese in Sydney. Superb humidified walk in fromagerie. |
| Fox Market | 'C'est Cheese' (corny or what) and superb goat cheese from David at Willowbrae. | |
| Fratelli Fresh | (see Italian) | |
| David Jones | Good choice but not as well kept as SJ. | |
| Wine | Vine, Bourke st, Alexandria. | Well, Shona works there so it must be good. |
| Coffee | Bel Caffe, Cleveland st, Chippendale. | Crazy ex-marine Seattle Rob makes divine Italian style blend. |
| Spices | Tara's, Northumberland St, Liverpool | A wall of aroma from buckets of spices. Sacks of basmati too- fantastic. |
| East European Delicatessens | 1)Macquaire St Liverpool, 2)Opposite Cabramatta station | For delicious speck, horseradish and rosehip jam. |
| Italian | Fratelli Fresh, Dank st, Alexandria | Huge supermarket deli with well priced imported cheese, pasta, rice as well as fantastic fruit and veg. including potatoes. Also now selling amazing pasture fed beef. |
| Pasta Fina, 63 Crown St, Wollongong. | Bronze extruded apparently- great stuff. | |
| Lebanese sweets | Elmowy,,Redfern | The best sugar hit in the southern hemisphere with hilarious idiosyncratic service to boot. |
| Bread | Bourke St bakery | Wonderful croissant and sausage rolls that redefine the genre. |
| La Tartine, Fox Studios FM | Fantastic sourdough. The fig and almond bread with David's fresh goats curd and the crazy man's Happy Bee honey has become a staple breakfast item. | |
| Blackheath bakery | Great cakes and good sourdough | |
| Katoomba bakery | Superb patisserie and sourdough. | |
| Markets | Farmers Market | Veg, patisserie, bread, cheese, fish and good fun wondering how anorectic Eastern Suburbian mums could actually reproduce in such numbers, let alone at all. |
| Paddy's Market, Chinatown | Frenetic subterranean homesick greens. You really need to be in the 'zone' to cope with this full on Eastern flavoured veg market, with a good fish area as well. | |
| Chinese | Chinatown, (surprise surprise) | |
| Vietnamese | Cabramatta | just explore. Lots of crazy ingredients to do with which I know not. Cheapest place to eat out. |