We are passionate about food and supplying you, our customers, with the best possible food and produce available. Be it fresh vegetables, local seasonal fruits or a hard to source gourmet ingredient from the other side of the world, we find the best possible products to put on our shelves for you.
And part of that passion comes from meeting our producers - especially our local farmers, artisans and food manufacturers.
Renowned food journalist and award-winning author, Richard Cornish sets out across Victoria to meet the incredible tribe of farmers, producers, chefs and artisans that all supply our stores.
1816 is a Ballarat Bakery established in 2019, by Head Baker Josh Chapman, with owners of the Forge Pizzeria, Tim and Chris Matthews. Josh would travel to Trentham to get good quality sourdough bread. He realised there was a gap in Ballarat for a bricks-and-mortar sourdough bakery. In 2019, the first loaves came out of the oven.
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