Big variety & great food & you'll be sure to find what you want ... love the cake shop, deli &…read moreflowers...

OHHH I LOVE this place…read more I swear I could live here (at night.. when its quiet). It has EVERYTHING food wise you could imagine, and more. - Freshly (like right in front of your eyes) made orange and apple juice. - Meat, meat MEAT - every meat you can imagine and drool over - Baked goods... so many... try and avoid it! - Fresh ALL AUSTRALIAN produce.. yum! But the best part is the cafe inside. Open till 3pm every day - they serve all the traditional breakfast dishes like Eggs Benedict, Big Breakfast & Smashed Avo... but they also have adorable cakes, wraps and toasted sandwiches. Great service and price too... I want to go back right now :)

If you're looking at adding some authenticity to your Asian cooking, you can't go past this place…read morefor the best in Asian vegetables, sauces and noodles. The staff are really friendly, and even if you don't really know what you're looking for they are more than willing to help out. I wondered in a couple of months ago pondering if my chicken with vegetables and singapore noodles could be improved with some better produce. Telling the smiling Asian grocer what I wanted, he quickly went about helping me pick out some products; bak choy, wombok, and traditional soy and oyster sauce. Not only that, he also went out of his way to give me a secret recipe for making up the yummiest sauce to go with almost any Asian meal you want to create. It was as simple as a bit of oyster and soy sauce and a teaspoon of gravy powder, mixed with some fresh Asian herbs and garlic paste! My husband was VERY impressed, even my daughter didn't believe I'd cooked it. The ever helpful grocer also gave me a great recipe for making fresh pork and vegetable rolls using the leaves of wombok to wrap the filling in. So delish...and all of these great recipes and new, fresh ingredients have given me the inspiration to throw my very own dinner party. If only I could get the grocer to come over and cook it for me...

Great little shop. Ingredients from all over Asia. Really helpful staff and good pricingread more

Remember the good old days when the local grocer knew your name, when the owner served you direct,…read moreknew what you wanted to order, gave your kids free lollies and helped you to your car with your bags? Well...the good old days are back at the Oak Park Friendly Supermarket. Ming, the owner of the supermarket is always there with a smile, willing to give you a hand, find what he knows you want and help you to your car. And for a local, family owned supermarket the prices are sometimes even cheaper than the chains, even on liquor. In saying that though, their prices could be 10% higher on everything all the time and I'd still choose to go there, simply for the service I receive. The media is always reporting on how retailers and business owners need to focus on better service in order to remain competitive against the threat of online shopping. I believe if every retailer, shop or business owner took a leaf out of Ming's book, the Internet wouldn't cause concern. Myself, along with my husband and the majority of my neighbours cross a highway and travel five minutes extra to go the Oak Park Supermarket over one a couple of minutes closer on our side of the highway. It's just that good, and I'm still amazed at the high product range considering it is a neighborhood supermarket. I just can't speak more highly of this place. To me it's truly remarkable to find a supermarket just 15 minutes from the city where they know your name, remain cost competitive against the chain stores and are willing to go the extra mile to help make your life easier.

This isn't the closest fruit and veg shop to my house so I don't come here unless I happen to be on…read moreSydney Road and it happens to be a convenient time to do some vegetable shopping. The first few times I came here I thought they were rather pricey compared to my local fresh produce shop, but a recent visit has led me to change my mind. La Manna had lots of good deals going, and I managed to find tarragon there, which I hadn't found in other stores in the neighbourhood. I don't know if I just never get the nice, smiley staff member at the cash register, or if none of them smile or make an attempt to be friendly, but that's just how it goes in La Manna. It would be nice if they were nicer to me, but if it were that easy for everyone to be nicer to each other, there would probably be less fighting in the world. How on earth did I go from fruit and veg to more peace and love in the world please? I think it's time for afternoon tea break.

Last Sunday my partner and I did something we've never done before... we awoke before 9am. But more…read moreimportantly, we got our butts out of the house and decided to stock up our fridge for the week (and stock it healthy.) La Manna is just a short walk away and is an absolutely gem of a local grocer. Piles of fresh fruits, veggies, flowers and all that other healthy stuff that you look at in the supermarket but always walk right past. You know the ones - quinoa, freekah, sunflower seeds and anything green... We stocked our basket sky high with enough veggies to feed a small family and smugly strutted out on to Sydney Road - proud smile on our face for all that we had achieved before 10am on a Sunday - and all for just a few clams! A highly recommended destination when you want the best and freshest veggies without the hefty price that can often come along with them.

I rang Psarakos to enquire about a special on wine & the male who answered was very rude & abrupt…read more He told me to get my facts straight & hung up on me! The worst customer service ever!! I will be going to Dan Murphy's from now on!!

It doesn't look much from outside, but Psarakos Brothers Vege Barn is a little bastion of all…read morethings fruit and vegetable in the inner north. Stretching over a couple of football fields' worth of real estate, the place is chocked full with produce ranging from your run of the mill 'Australian'-style spuds and onions, to a wide range of Asian varieties and further regional obscurities. The stuff here is pretty much non-organic, but is usually in pretty good shape at least for a week after purchase. The big difference here are the price-points. Psarakos provide their veges in bulk, so it pays to sift through the bins, but the prices match and even often better those seen at Preston or Victoria markets. Plus there is very little hassle-factor in shopping here, with ample parking and a very relaxed overall vibe about the place. A downside is the opening hours which are limited and Saturdays can be a little hectic. But if you hate the market rush and chow through a couple of bags of greens a week, you can walk out of here with two bags full of groceries for under forty bucks.