The Green Grocer

Ph: 9489 1747; 217 St Georges Rd St Georges Rd, FITZROY NORTH 3068

Cocktail/Wine Bar, $$ -, ** for Food & Ambience
Open 7 days 9am-5pm, Closed Xmas Day; Licensed; MC V EFT

Mietta's Review
Inside The Green Grocer one is wrapped in series of funky Six Degrees spaces decorated with organic vegetables. If you decide to sit in the little backroom near the fireplace you can reach through the open windows and touch your fellow diners in the adjoining space - an enclosed light well. Service is charming, laid-back and so polite it barely registers a new chum's infringement of the complex house-rules of behaviour. Long famous for its breakfasts it also does fine, determindely healthy, food through the rest of the day coping effortlessly with the offspring of inner-suburban, mature-age parents. These slightly harrassed parents could be single dads (with child), demanding restaurant industry figures or just those who have seen their real estate rocket in value. Prices are what you would expect - mains around $16, big breakfast $14, muesli $7.

Other published opinions

The Age Cheap Eats 2009 "organic-cafe-foodstore An organic providore this good (stocked with obscure fruit and veg for the neophyte Gordon Ramsay, plus jams, biodynamic meats, cheeses and wines) gives locals boasting rights"

The Age Cheap Eats 2008 "If you see it in the wooden crates of this organic grocer, you'll see it on the wholesome, inventive cafe menu"

The Age Cheap Eats 2007 "This place wears its organic credentials like a (cab)badge of honour. First there's certified produce lining one wall, and then there are on-the-money meals, starting with eggs on sourdough plus a choice of nine extras (smoked salmon or biodynamic sausage, perhaps) and condiments including eggplant pickle."

The Age Cheap Eats 2006 It's no surprise that this place has become a Fitzroy North breakfast institution. Tucked within the organic store is a cosy bolthole

Herald Sun Donna Coutts 24/5/05 score 16/20 "Clean, friendly, cosy cafe full of excellent organic food to eat in and take home."

The Age Cheap Eats 2005 "BASKET-LADEN, toddler-toting types flock to this cafe-cum-grocery for its array of fresh produce, its wide deli selection and quirky organic cafe menu."

The Age Cheap Eats 2004 "IF breakfast is an art form, the Green Grocer is one of the hippest galleries in town. ... The cosy space is staffed by friendly folk who glow with good health."

Herald Sun CityStyle Best of Melbourne 04 Best health spot "The Green Grocer avoids all the usual greasy guilt trips by being mostly organic and offering a good proportion of vegetarian options"

The Age, Agenda,25/4/04,Roslyn Grundy,'Menus bandy around buzzwords such as 'organic' and 'seasonal',but few with the Green Grocer's conviction.Chef Tanya Connellan draws on the organic produce sold in the store to inspire daily specials which can be matched to wines with green credentials.'

Herald Sun, Sunday Magazine, 21/3/04, Jane Hutchinson,'Their big brekky may be the only fully organic breakfast in town, ($14.90)'

The Age, Epicure, Unexplored Territory, Matt Preston, 26.3.02. "Great produce, but could try harder on the food."