I love a play on words and My Souk Drawer delivers on the humour as well as the spices and even the…read moresocks! A variety of dried chilli's (Birdseye, chipotle) and mushrooms (shiitake, porcini, chanterelle) to name a few. The owner Chris was very helpful and incredibly knowledgable on his products. Custom making an assortment of spices for me to gift to my Dad for his new smoker. Beautifully fragrant Baharat, Jamaican jerk, Manzanillo taco and paella spices and a Mexican espresso rub. Other items for sale included hot sauces, spice jars, pottery and women's and kids aprons which were almost too lovely to risk getting food on. Definitely worth a look. I'll be coming back for some Cajun spice, it smelt delicious.

The best place for everything spices! There's a huge range of fantastic blends, and everything is…read moreat really great prices :) plus, the store smells amazing!

Local co-op type store where they sell independent foodstuffs among other handmade goods. The thing…read morethat caught my eye here was the bread/flour from Fosterton Farm Bakery. I'd recently read Cooked by Michael Pollan, which talks a lot about good quality flour and bread, quoting a baker who suggests good sourdough should automatically make your mouth water. He also goes into detail about how commercially processed bread these days loses a lot of the nutrients in a whole grain. Even when a package may say whole grain, it may not mean what you expect it to mean because of the way grain is processed. On the shelves, there was actually stone-ground whole wheat flour from Fosterton Farm here as well as loaves of sourdough. Perfect chance to taste what I'd read about. I bought a sourdough loaf for ($8.50). It was delicious and definitely made my mouth water. With no adequate storage, though, it grew moldy in a couple of days before I could finish it all. (My excuse: I was in the middle of a road trip. Not sure if it would normally grow moldy so quickly.) Would highly recommend the bread here at least and wouldn't be surprised if everything else was of similar good quality.

It's been a couple of months, so I thought I'd give Kitami another try. Everyone has bad days…read more However, the chef here must have a bad day every day. I was asked if I had been "the one" who wrote bad "reviews". (I wrote me about dreadful customer service.) I was told they would only serve me if I removed the review. Actually, no! I gave you another chance, you displayed even worse customer service, so no. FYI, chef, if you'd given me great customer service, I would have removed my previous review. I believe in second chances, not third ones.

I have been a customer at Kitami Carrington since I moved to Newcastle, last year. I have been a…read moreregular, buying either one or two dishes every week that I have been in town.. The food is very good, however, due to their inability to handle a complaint (caused by their own error) they have lost me as a customer. I ordered take away tempura, which was provided without the essential dipping sauce. I phoned up, was told they would cook me a fresh one, I drove back quite a distance, only to be told, pretty much, no. I have previously witnessed a complaint, where the customer complained the chicken was not cooked & a refund was refused. This is not the way to keep customers during a pandemic. I would not recommend this place now. My business is going elsewhere.

Great food and amazing service! The beef and chicken tacos are and so are the salsas.. also…read moreenjoyed the tamarind drink!

I go out of my way to get Antojitos, their Mexican is the best in Newcastle…read more I especially love their burritos!!