Food shops and specialty grocers
Eight supermarket items nutritionist Sarah Pound always has in her shopping basket
The best-selling author and mum of three takes us on a spin around her favourite IGA and shares her favourite everyday ingredients (and how to use them) along the way.
- Ardyn Bernoth
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Queue-magnet cafe Florian’s new spot gives you more of the food you love, and then some
The Carlton North favourite adds a takeaway outlet and providore that will act as a pressure valve, feeding people from breakfast through to dinner.
- Claire Adey
Lygon Street’s last butcher has a new owner with a familiar name
Customers of the legendary Donati’s butcher shop in Carlton feared the end was nigh when its founder announced retirement. But their prayers may have been answered by a buyer who wants business as usual.
- Emma Breheny
Sunny with a chance of mangoes: Here’s the fresh produce forecast for Christmas
Ordering early is the secret to a wilt-free festive feast. Beat the heat, and the last-minute panic, with these expert tips on securing the best produce.
- Dani Valent
A fishmonger with a fine dining difference opens at Prahran Market
Portside, from the chefs behind hatted Omnia and Yugen, sells seafood prepared like a restaurant would: lobster stuffed with garlic miso, scallops topped with yuzu butter and more.
- Emily Holgate
‘It’s not just a butcher’: Legendary Carlton shop Donati’s celebrated in its final weeks
A Lygon Street fixture since 1972, the singular butcher shop run by Leo Donati will close early next year, bringing to an end half a century of opera, debate and excellent Christmas hams.
- Emma Breheny
From $2 espressos to tinned tomatoes: Julia Busuttil Nishimura takes us shopping for Italian ingredients
The cookbook author has a deep knowledge and passion for Italian products. She shows us around Mediterranean Wholesalers and shares some of her favourites.
- Ardyn Bernoth
- Exclusive
- Just open
‘It’s the milk bar for 2025’: Breadcetera fills a loaf gap in Malvern East
The new takeaway shop and grocer is serving house-made sausage rolls, chocolate tarts and chicken salad sangers on high-top bread.
- Dani Valent
Chadstone’s shiny new Market Pavilion is a spectacle, but does it deserve the hype?
Recipe bots, pre-packaged meals and sweet treats are all there. But where do you sit down and eat? Here’s Good Food’s guide to the enormous food precinct.
- Emma Breheny
- Opinion
- Supermarkets
In the supermarket’s most tempting aisle, a familiar problem presents itself
When it comes to after-dinner treats, two squares of dark chocolate a night will never be enough to cure our collective problems.
- Thomas Mitchell