One of My Favorite Places

If there is one place I can recommend to food lovers as a must-visit here in Melbourne, It would be Victoria Market. I'd give it a big WOW! with two thumbs up!! Fresh, good quality and clean. The selections are endless! You can start off at the seafood section. Atlantic Tasmanian Salmon (bought a few slices of course!), shrimps, crabs, scallops, and of course, Oysters! Coffinbay! Yummm! -All FRESH! (not frozen). Nicely arranged on beds of ice or on glass displays. Then followed by the meat section.Lamb chops, veal, all types and cuts of beef (hmmm think about having porterhouse steak for dinner). Then there's a doorway going towards the deli area. I love it here! You can get pastrami, ham, salami, prociutto, sausages. There are also stalls where they sell olives, some European in origin, and some Greek. I got myself marinated kalamata olives and marinated semi dried tomatoes I love them. having it with the Sourdough Ciabatta that I got from the boulangerie! Artisan bread, needless to say, is one of my favorite things. It wouldn't be complete of course with out Cheese! Different kinds of cheeses from all over the world as well as those locally made fill the stall displays of a number of cheese vendors. So much cheese variety you wouldn't know what to pick! I got myself a St. Agur. Whew, that was a bit over the budget.... eeek but I promise it is a happy potion ;). For pasta and salad I got parmesan cheese, and tried a creamy havarti. (What's nice about the cheese vendors is that you can just get the quantity you want.). Breakfast wouldn't be complete with out butter of course! Fresh creamy butter sold in the market! Got a little. Then off to the Vegetables and Fruits section. I got a bunch of asparagus spears (yes! these are big, like around 9"! nice to have with my salmon) Took some swiss brown mushrooms for the steak a couple of waxy yellow potatoes and aromatics for cooking. Black cherries are in season. A rare fruit back in the tropics. Now I have almost unlimited supply of these! Hahahaha. Nectarines, peaches, apricots, summer berries +++ are all lined up for your picking. Whew its easy to fill up the shopping bag with all that! A must-visit definitely! ;)

A few shots I managed to get. Don't have much though, I was pretty busy hahahaha.








some fruits I got home. Hmmm nice for summer fruit salad with greek yogurt and a little bit of honey.