I Love Grapevine. The fruit and vegetables are always so fresh and delicious. It's really quite a…read morelarge shop and sells more than the average fruit shop; there's a small range of cooking extras: sauces, oils and dressings, herbs, and fresh eggs, and a fantastic indoor and outdoor plant section, with cut flowers and bedding plants all available. There's always great offers on the fruit, Tuesday I bought a big strawberries for £1 and they were just divine! Great place, but it's a long way to walk back to the train station (or the car park) with heavy purchases.. I don't think home delivery is available.

Hmmm. Honest to goodness, what? Honest to goodness these things really work, or honest to goodness…read morethese are real plants that grow in the woods? Geez. I'm not big on herbal remedies. But if you are, this place is wall-to-wall herbs, and they don't mind trying to charge you a fair bit for a little bottle of something that may or may not actually do anything. Just a thought.

Clearly Megan has never been to Honest to Goodness, this shop is not a shop selling wall to wall…read moreherbs, it sells ethical (honest) vegan wholefoods. Megan you really shouldn't be reviewing shops you have never been to as it could mislead people.

Best when the weather is good, the Liverpool Farmer's Market can provide new surprises as well as…read morefamiliar faces and products with each 3rd Sunday of every month. While most of us are trying to get a well earned lie in or nurse a hang over there are many out there setting up stalls to sell their wares and even more getting out there to sample the fresh produce of fruit, meat and cheese sellers and hand crafted materials and jewellery. When the weather is good or the 'farmers' know there will be more tourists out on the street there seems a better turn out and the market is the best way to sample some of the areas best local goods.

I havn't been to Hoylake fisheries for a couple years, not since I lost my wife. When they where in…read moreWallasey Village my wife used to go there and buy our cod which I would batter for myself and steam for my wife, my wife didn't like me using dripping. Buying the fish was an expedition. Me and the kids in the car outside while she was inside the shop talking the day away. That was because the people who owned the shop where friendly and cared about their customers, nothing was too much trouble. When my wife couldn't walk properly they would deliver it for her. When they moved to Hoylake, me and my son would go there and collect my wifes order. What a tremendous shop with such nice memories. Thank you,

Well it's always nice to find a good old traditional fishmonger, don't you think? It's reassuring…read moreto know that people are still selling decent, line caught fish that haven't been farmed and fattened up artificially some place or plaice... haha No but, there seems to be less and less fishmongers as the years go by, and this is a great little one based in central Hoylake with a huge selection of fresh fish for anyone to choose from! They also sell sauces to have with your fish and they are next door to a greengrocer so you can get your vegetables! They sell lot's of varieties of fish in accordance with the seasonal catch, including haddock, salmon, crab, cod and other fishy favourites! It's every fish lover wildest Bream come true!

Fruit exchange is a massive fruit and veg stall inside Birkenhead Market. They offer one of the…read morelargest ranges of fruit and vegetables you will find in an independent shop, and they have some really good prices. They can certainly give Aldi a run for their money, so if you're into saving money on your food, this is a great place to buy your fruit and veg, especially those items that tend to be more expensive like strawberries and grapes. And there's just so much to choose from.

Deli Fonseca is one of the few places that makes me wish I was loaded…read more A fab independent deli in Liverpool's business district, it's packed floor to ceiling with all kinds of mouthwatering goodies. The gigantic counter displays a myriad of delicious cheeses, hams, olives, pates, anti-pasti and salads whilst the nearby baskets display fresh sticks and loaves of bread. To top it off, they have dozens of wooden shelves groaning with all kinds of lovely store cupboard treats from organic granola, cereals and cookies to oat cakes, chutneys, olive oils, vinegars, sauces and spices. Now, where did I put that darn lottery ticket?

This review is for the upstairs restaurant area - and sadly it is not a good one. One Saturday…read morelunchtime, I popped in for a light lunch. Nothing complicated - in the end, I ordered a Greek salad and a plate of Serrano ham rather than the pricier mains on the blackboards. I'm not sure how two really basic things could be so disappointing. I think it's because on the surface, this looks like a place that prides itself on sourcing and attention to detail. On the specials during my visit were such items as hand foraged local samphire, Cumbrian lamb and Pink's award winning sausages. So why was the Greek salad about 50% raw onion? Why did it feature those mealy crunchy supermarket basics tomatoes, cold from the fridge? Even the black olives mentioned on the menu were green. And they clearly did have black olives in the kitchen, because my four slices of Serrano ham (almost £6) came topped with a single olive. They boasted it was "20 month aged" - most of it had clearly been in their fridge, as it featured a faint tang of refrigerator and managed to be unpleasantly rubbery. Not sure how Serrano ham can even go rubbery but there you go. If you've boasting of excellent ingredients then it's unacceptable for the basics to fail so badly. I wouldn't bother returning.

Matta's is an excellent Asian store selling a huge variety of ingredients and exotic foods as well…read moreas frozen fish. There is no other store like this in Liverpool as here you'll find rarer products that you can experiment with. It is particularly popular with students and people from foreign backgrounds. Some westerners may consider the food strange so don't be suprised. There is alot of delightful produce to be tried at affordable prices. If you want to cook up something new whether it is middle-eastern or Carribean cuisine, come here because staff are friendly and will kindly advise you.

The world in one city is one of the many trite cliches we scousers like to ram down people's…read morethroats - instead visit this excellent food emporium and get some ingredients to make some lovely food to ram down your throat instead. Matta's is a well known Liverpool food stockist, I'm not sure it's really a deli, let's call it a food place because they sell things to do with food. Because we here in Liverpool know so little about food - our traditional meal is not scouse as people will have you believe but Pot Noodle - there are few places like Matta's and certainly none as reasonably priced. Herbs and spices, exotic condiments, preserves, oils and stocks are the main fare of Matta's trade helping scousers to liven up our spam frittas since a while ago and now they have entered the 21st century with an e-commerce website.