North Perth Western Australia 6006
(08) 9328 3999
Website
Hours:
Mon-Sun: 7am-6pm
Thu, opened until 8pm
The North Perth Growers Market is a mix of veggie shop, Italian Deli and convenience store, all at once. They are located at about 50 metres from the North Perth Plaza, and still open. It takes a lot of good and hard work for a shop like this to survive a shopping plaza with a Coles in it, and doing so for years. A bow to them.
The place is very well organised. They major in veggies and fruit, but there is an Italian corner with authentic Italian pasta brands and cooking ingredients so you can let your sexy "casalinga" shine at home, and a nuts and eggs corner, too. Moreover, there is a deli area (with packaged cold meats, cheese and antipasti), an area with potted herbs and other plants (Kale lately), an area with tinned pulses and tomatoes, a corner with reduced produce, and a fridge with basic dairy. There is even a Peter's fridge - A Magnum achievement!
The place is always clean and tidy, and the produce looks always great so well piled and shiny. The mirrors on the wall create a visual trick of abundance, and the shop looks like packed to the rafters with produce. The coloured blackboards are a nice touch, too. They regularly scavenge their produce to get out the old, mushy and the not-so-good-looking stuff and sell it at reduced prices. When you buy full price produce, you get very good good-looking produce. That is how it should be.
I love the fact that, in season, they have always two varieties of each fruit, one very good quality, big in size perfect looking and expensive, and another medium quality not so good looking but cheaper.
Pricing is very good, better than at Coles, and the quality usually better as well, not to speak of the variety of veggies, fruit and herbs they have, and the availability of different prices and qualities. Their deli area is not cheap, but they sell at similar prices you find at IGA.
The guys working there are always lovely, eager to help, and fast with queues.
I cannot give the place five stars because, sometimes, one can find packaged products that have passed the use-by date still on the shelves, and that is always a big no-no with me.
