Everything you didn't know you wanted to eat

If it weren’t for walking out of my way to photograph the rotunda architecture and windows of the Red Bull head office I mightn’t've noticed the large new-looking warehouse right beside it.

Luckily a large pink boulder of rock salt drew my eye to the doorway (and then beyond) to the delectable treasures hidden within:

Salt Meats Cheese providore – 41 Bourke Road Alexandria

Called “Salt Meats Cheese” this tasty nom-spiration is located beneath an imposing brick stack in Sydney’s newest foodie cornucopia, Alexandria – right next to popular new venue The Grounds.

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The Italian theme is strong with this providore.

If you’ve been to Italy recently you’ll feel a pang of yearning even just seeing the mustachioed labels on the spring water, bottled in typical Roman coloured glass. If you haven’t yet traversed Italia a traipse through the warehouse is enough of an adventure to inspire you to expend less on takeaway – and instead save dough by hosting your own sumptuous latin dinner parties.

No matter your food “thing” from black truffle to buffalo cheese to cured flesh, the “Salt Meats Cheese” gourmet Aladdin’s Cave has it all:

Cured flesh of beast

If you don’t have the dinner party inclination yet, you’ll surely get the urge after a visit here. These guys will even help you fake it with pre-made desserts in champagne flutes:

Premade desserts, green fresh ravioli pasta pillows

Even if you’re not the gourmet snack type there are many imported curiosities to catch a creative eye.

Be it radiant rainbow striped pasta (which apparently stays this bright even after boiling):

Rainbow striped pasta

Escargot in cans and adjacent sanitary looking shells:

Snail shells and tinned escargots

Heritage organic blue corn chips (would make very funky looking nachos):

Organic Blue Corn Chips

Sexy retro bottled Chinotto:

Retro drink Chinotto Betty Babes

5kg Nutella jars large enough for a child to bathe in – don’t let the perspective fool you, the flanking pinatas are huge:

5kg of Nutella flanked by pinatas

Square slabs of Himalayan rock salt:

Himalayan Salt square slabs

Vegan gluten free raw organic chocolate in unimagined flavour combos:

Raw organic vegan gluten free coconut flavoured chocolate

Even the vinaigrettes somehow seem fun. Like a shelf full of tickle me Elmo’s just waiting to be squeezed & set off, i just wanted to shake all of these:

Multilayered Vinaigrette – i like that

Pretty excited to be heading back again today – I have a menu/plan of attack this time!

~Kristen Obaid

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