233-235 Gertrude St
Fitzroy VIC 3065
Australia

T: 61 3 8415 1415
F: 61 3 8415 1418
shop@booksforcooks.com.au

About Us

We are Australia's specialist independent new & second-hand cookery book store; run by cooks & lovers of good food for cooks & lovers of good food.

We have over 25,000 new, out-of print, second-hand & antiquarian cookery books & food & wine related titles in stock (five rooms, floor to ceiling jam-packed).

We have Australia's largest culinary book collection for sale.  Whilst we can't stock every cook book there is, we try to stock every good cook book, new & old, we can find.  We have books for professionals, students, enthusiastic amateurs, novices as well as children.

But we are not just about cookbooks.  We also have books on food writing, food  history, food science, wine writing, food & wine guides & just about any other food related area you can think of.

If we don't have the cook book you are looking for in stock, we also offer a free book search

Newsletter

Mis en Place, our occasional newsletter will keep you informed of instore events, and updates to our website.

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Opening Hours

Best of Friends

Yes we do stock Best of Friends, the cookbook of the Cambodian Street Children's restaurant, but we are currently out of stock and do not expect new copies before February 2009. If you do want a copy, we mail all over the world. To order, email us! with your address and we'll contact you with your postage options when new stock arrives.

New Professional Titles (October 2008)

The Big Fat Duck Cookbook by Heston Blumenthal; Alinea by Grant Achatz; Under Pressure by Thomas Keller; A Day at elBulli by Ferran Adria & many more.

in addtion we stock elbulli 94-97, elbulli 98-02 & elbulli 03-04, Ingredienti & Sous Vide in store IN ENGLISH. We also have a range of European Specialty books by authors including Paco Torreblanca, Yann Duytche, Ramon Morato, Frederic Bau, Oriol Balaguer, Alain Ducasse, Pierre Herme, Berndt Sieffert & many others

Specials

We are the original stockist of Preserving the Italian Way by Pietro de Maio $39.95. An amazing collection of Italian preserving recipes, including olives (18 recipes), Vegetables, Sweet Preserves, Salami, Prosciutto, building bread ovens, grappa and much much more - all traditional and all recorded here in Melbourne

Yes - our new website & online store is still under construction but it is almost completed & will be up very soon.  Sign up for our mailing list and we'll let you know when our store is available