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 22,000 new, out-of print, second-hand & antiquarian cookery books & food & wine related titles in stock.
We have Australia's largest cook 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 & many other food related areas.
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.
Opening Hours
Mon-Sat 10-6Sun 11-5
Open most public holidays
Best of Friends
Yes we do stock Best of Friends, the cookbook of the Cambodian Street Children's restaurant. The Australian price is $39.95. We mail all over the world. To order, email us! with your address and we'll quote your postage options
New Professional Titles (February 2008)
elbulli 94-97, elbulli 98-02 & elbulli 03-04 are all available in store IN ENGLISH. We also have a range of European Specialty books by authors including Paco Torreblanca, Yann Dutchye, Frederic Bau, Oriol Balaguer, Alain Ducasse, Pierre Herme, Berndt Sieffert & many others
Upcoming!
Instore book signings 2008:
* We are currently organising our new program
Email us for more information.
Yes - our new website & online store is almost completed & will be up very soon. Some of you may even have seen a sneak preview by accident over January 2007. Sign up for our mailing list and we'll let you know when our store is available