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Melbourne Bookstores
Avenue Bookstore
127 Dundas Place, Albert Park
03 9690 2227
Awarded the 2005 Australian Bookshop of the Year, the Avenue Bookstore is a gem. With a great selection of titles, both fiction and non fiction, the store has a strong focus on literature, cooking and gardening. Well worth a visit if you’re in the neighbourhood.
Brunswick Street Bookstore
305 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy
03 9416 1030
(An excellent independent bookstore)
Readings
309 Lygon Street, Carlton
03 9347 6633
(4 stores spread across the city)
The Greville St Bookstore
145 Greville Street, Prahran
03 9510 3531
(Well-known and well-stocked independent bookstore)
Kill City
226 Chapel Street, Prahran
03 9510 6661
(popular crime and pulp fiction specialist bookstore.
Paperback Bookshop
60 Bourke Street
03 9662 1396
(Open late, run by booklovers and across from Pelligrini's and the best coffee in town - bliss)
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Melbourne Discount Outlets
DFO (Direct Factory Outlet’s)
With two locations at opposite end of the city, DFO is the market leader in discount outlets. Both locations have over 100 brand name discount stores and many more bargain hunters browsing within them
Cheltenham
Dandenong & Grange Roads, Cheltenham, 03 9583 0344
Essendon
100 Bulla Road, Essendon
03 9937 7222
Brand Smart
286 Whitehorse Road, Nunawading
03 9894 0811,
With 50 stores ranging from homewares, accessories through to men’s and women’s wear, the committed bargain hunter is bound to find something in this cut-price centre.
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Melbourne Gift Stores
Husk
176 Collins Street, Melbourne
03 9663 0655
A thoroughly modern gift store, Husk takes its inspiration from across the globe to offer its customers an inspired selection of ‘feelgood’ products including herbal teas, health and beauty products and a clothing and homeware range.
Owl
30 Chatham Street, Prahran
03 9510 6077
(Funky and quirky selections of gifts, homewares and stationery)
Aesop
153 Toorak Road, South Yarra,
03 9866 5250
(leading Australian beauty & skin care products, facial treatments)
Richmond Hill Café & Larder
48-50 Bridge Road, Richmond
03 9421 2808
(Leading fine foods & café)
Crumpler
85 Smith Street, Fitzroy
03 9417 5776
(Originally for couriers, now bordering on couture, excellent locally made bags and travel goods)
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Melbourne Markets
Most days in Melbourne, you’ll be able to find a good old-fashioned street market. Some have a distinctly glamorous edge whilst others resemble little more than a glorified car boot sale.
That’s the point! The real charm of any market is that they attract all human life forms. Consequently there are few better ways of mixing with the locals and possibly picking up a bargain in the process.
Esplanade Sunday Markets
10am - 5pm - Sundays
Upper Esplanade, St Kilda
(200+ stalls clothing, used books, exotica, gifts and ephemera)
South Melbourne Markets
8am - 4pm - Wednesday to Sunday
Corner of Coventry and Cecil Sts, South Melbourne
(Local institution, good stalls excellent produce and handy to
cafes)
Camberwell Market
6am -12pm - Sundays
Off Fairholm Grove, Camberwell
(Serious ‘trash and treasure’ market for the ‘quick or the dead’)
Prahran Market
6.00 am - 5pm - Tuesday to Sunday
163 Commercial Road, Prahran
(Australia longest continually running market. Commercial in nature it has a great range of fruit, vegetables and gourmet foods)
Caribbean Gardens Market
8.30am - 3.30pm - Wednesdays & Sundays only
(25 kms from the city centre. A mix of 1500 permanent and temporary stalls spread over 100 acres site)
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Melbourne Mens Wear
Chiodo
114 Russell Street ,Melbourne
03 9663 0044
Chiodo is an atypical and yet refreshingly ‘Melbourne’ menswear store. Its style is subversive and confident and is rightly renowned for twisting more conservative elements of menswear to produce quirky and original shirts and t-shirts. The store also stocks a limited range of designer brands and accessories.
Cactus Jam
QV 26 Albert Coates Lane,Melbourne
03 9654 0798
(Upscale, local & international designer brand menswear)
David Jones
Chadstone Shopping Centre, 1341 Dandenong Road,
Chadstone
03 8531 4444
(Department store - large selection of local and international mens wear)
Carhartt Store
Melbourne Central, 211 Latrobe Street
03 9639 6870
(Iconic US steetwear \ workwear - best hoddies on the planet)
Calibre
45 Collins Place,Collins Street
03 9663 8001
(Quality upscale Australian menswear)
Cubece
241 Flinders Lane
03 9663 9717
(Classic, well priced, locally made'suiting')
Bogong Equipment
374 Little Bourke Street , Melbourne
03 9600 0599
(Outdoor and adventure travel wear)
Bobby's Cutst
237 Flinders Lane, Melbourne
03 9663 4030
(urban and edgy, but not 'silly" - great t-shirts)
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Melbourne Record Stores
The Basement Discs
24 Block Place, Melbourne
03 9654 1110
Staffed and run by knowledgeable and approachable music buffs, this is one of Melbourne’s best record stores. If you’re looking for the best in contemporary music or are hunting for that soul, blues and roots or jazz reissues you’ve read about, this store is one to check. Their ‘ best of year’ list and in-store recommendations are usually spot- on.
Rare Records
Level 1, 82 Acland Street, St Kilda
03 9593 9977
(Specialising in rare and deleted cds, vinyl, posters, t-shirts, autographed items and tonnes more music memorabilia. They also offer a search service for all your hard to find items.)
JB Hi-Fi
206 Bourke Street
03 9650 0788
(Comprehensive contemporary and classical selections)
Polyester Records
387 Fitzroy Street, Brunswick
03 9419 5137
(Leading underground store and independent Australian record label)
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Melbourne Retail Streets
Chapel Street
With 1000 stores spread along a 2km stretch of Chapel Street and running though 3 suburbs, this is the country’s best retail strip. Greville Street and Commercial Road have a fantastic array of cutting edge and more traditional fashion stores, funky gifts and homewares. If it all becomes too much, retreat to the countless bars and cafes that dot the area.
Suburb - South Yarra \ Prahran
Bridge Road
From high fashion to antique stores with all stops in-between best sums up Bridge Road. With a great selection of retail stores catering for most tastes and budgets, this vibrant and popular strip also has excellent cafes, pubs and restaurants to choose from.
Suburb - Richmond
Acland Street
Ahhhh, we love Acland Street. Home to the best cake shops this side of Vienna and just the right mix of crazy and cool. Good for retro clothing, but a superb spot for eating, hanging out and to watching the world spin around.
Suburb - St Kilda
Brunswick Street
All urban tribes meet on Brunswick Street; the tattooed and tribal happily rub shoulders with the business suit brigade on this bohemian slice of real estate located on the CBD fringe. The vibe is arty, accepting and accessible and it’s worth a look.
Suburb - Fitzroy
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Shopping Arcades
GPO Melbourne
Corner of Bourke & Elizabeth Streets, Melbourne
Once housing Melbourne’s main general post office, this magnificent Victorian building is now one of the city’s premier shopping destinations. Elegant and refined with a great mixture of retail shopping and dining options.
Royal Arcade
355 Bourke Street, Melbourne.
Opened in 1870, the Royal Arcade is the city's oldest shopping arcade and even though it has undergone some modernisation, it still provides a tantalising glimpse of how people shopped in days gone past. It now houses some 40 shops selling everything from second hand clothing to tarot card readings.
Block Arcade
280-286 Collins Street, Runs between Collins Street and
Elizabeth Street, Melbourne.
This is another immaculate Victorian shopping arcade and is renowned for its exquisite mosaic inlaid floors. The building is justifiably protected by a National Trust listing and it now houses some of the city’s more upscale and exclusive stores.
Port Philip Arcade
Flinders Street between Swanston and Elizabeth Sts, Melbourne
Although not one of Melbourne's 'glamour' arcade, its the simple charms of the stores contained wiithin this arcade which makes it interesting in. Engravers to Cake Decorators & pure Melbourne.
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Melbourne Shopping Centres
Melbourne retail culture has not embraced shopping centres with quite the fervour of other Australian cities. In our opinion it’s because the local and, dare we say it, more traditional retail stores do a better job of providing superior products and service to their worldly customers than a shopping mall that’s little more than a slice of the USA.
But, if you feel the need to visit a mall and re-create that special moment from 'Kath & Kim' 'eboonnnyyy'..', here’s where you can go to indulge.
Chadstone Shopping Centre
1341 Dandenong Road, Chadstone
Since 1960, this shopping centre which calls itself the ‘The Fashion Capital’ has been the cities main suburban shopping mall. With over 300 varied stores including David Jones and Myers, its premier position is still assured
Bourke Street Mall
Bourke Street, Melbourne
Truncated by Swanston and Elizabeth Streets, Bourke Street is more a CBD shopping precinct than a defined centre. Only accessible to pedestrians and trams it contains a plethora of brand names stores, cinemas and food courts. It’s the true heart of retail shopping in the city
Westfield Southland
1239 Nepean Highway, Cheltenham
"500 shops and 6000 free car parking spaces," states the ad. Although the line sounds eerily similar to a parody of "The Simpson’s’ minus the pathos, this huge and oddly cheerful suburban shopping centre, literally pulls in thousands of happy retail therapists.
Melbourne Central
Corner of Latrobe & Swanston Streets, Melbourne
Centrally situated in the CBD, Melbourne Central has grown to include some 300 retail stores, a cinema complex and numerous food and beverage outlets amongst a diverse group of tenants.
The development has tastefully handled the sensitive issue of a heritage location by clever use of a glass atrium, which covers and preserves several key buildings and for this, it’s to be commended.
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Melbourne Womens Wear
Anna Thomas
146 Little Collins Street, Melbourne
03 9639 5562
With clothes that are both feminine and cinematic in their execution, Anna Thomas’ exceptional and exacting standard of tailoring has won her a legion of fans both locally and internationally. Her attention to detail, compelling aesthetic and inspired fabric selection continue to push her designs to the pinnacle of Australian fashion.
Marais - Royal Arcade
Little Collins Street 03 9639 0314
(Upscale and exclusive international designer brand women’s wear)
Myer
Chadstone Shopping Centre, 1341 Dandenong Road,
Chadstone
039238 9111
(Department store - large selection of local and international women’s wear)
Christine
181 Flinders Lane, Melbourne
03 9654 2011
(Melbourne’ s queen of accessories)
Scanlon & Theodore
566 Chapel Street, South Yarra
03 9824 1800
(Renowned Australian designers)
Shag
Shop 20, Centre Way Arcade, Melbourne
03 9663 8166
(Funky retro vintage clothing with wit and prices to match, but unsurpassed)
Kinki Gerlinki
122 Greville St, Prahran
03 9529 4599
(Eclectic and imported urban \ street wear)
Assin
136 Little Collins Street
03 9654 0158
(Ultimate high end chic, true 'fasionisita' heaven)
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