Coorparoo Markets

The Coorparoo markets consist of two floors of shopping in the old Myer Centre at Coorparoo.  The bottom floor is a farmers market, with a variety of stalls (some permanent and some temporary). It seems as though every time I visit I'll find one of my favourite small producers there (maybe an olive farmer or a specialty baker perhaps), just with a table in the middle of the markets.  There are quite a lot of fruit and vegetable stalls, a butchers selling meat that they farm themselves,  a couple of bakeries, a few delicatessens, a wine shop and even an aquarium selling gold fish 

The upper floor, which is actually on ground level, has clothing stalls, bookshops, even a pole-dancers supply outlet. To be honest, this section isn't terribly exciting to me. I'd much rather see either some locally made hand crafted items or that it's ridiculously cheap, but this doesn't seem to fit in either camp.

The least you should know: Coorparoo Markets are at  300 Old Cleveland Road Coorparoo and run from Thursday to Saturday 7am – 6pm and Sunday 7am – 2.30pm.  It's free to get in and you can park in a carpark on the top floor (the entrance is on the Old Cleveland Road side) or on the street around the markets.

This stall specialises in organic produce and is always really fresh.

This is the stand that belongs to the Saint coffee roasters.  They've spent years making clean skin coffee for other people and now want to give something back to their growers by making a name for their own brand. This is seriously good coffee, as you may no doubt realise by the empty shelves.  They also have a stand selling cups of coffee, so you can try before you buy. I'm also completely addicted to their hot chocolate blend called African Cacao ($10 for 350g). 

Heinz meats has a shop on Stanley Street at Woollongabba that has been  around since 1983.  Since I'd never visited the shop before because it's so difficult to park at the Gabba, it's a really smart move for them to have an outlet here. They'll pretty much chop of a piece of anything for you to taste, the only problem was coming home with $40 worth of cold cuts that we lived on for the next week..wait...what problem?  It was fantastic!

These are a couple of the stalls on the upper/ ground level.  It's well worth a wander, just to see what you can find