You’re probably looking at the photo and thinking ‘Jetsetting Joyce has completely lost her mind now – she’s paid $30 for a lump of dirt and some rice in a plastic container’.
Well, maybe. Even since our dinner at Cafe Vue, RM and I have been rhapsodising about the toasted cheese and mushroom sandwich with shaved truffle. For the next few weeks of the short Tasmanian truffle season, I can replicate that recipe with black truffles from Fresh Generation at Queen Vic Markets. Combine that with comte gruyere from The French Shop, fresh bread from my $20 Ebay breadmaker and my first crop of portobello mushrooms, and it’s a perfect winter lunch at home.
- Fresh Generation, I Shed, Queen Victoria Market, cnr Elizabeth and Victoria Sts, Melbourne 3000 (03) 9329 3909
- The French Shop, Stall 1-2 Dairy Produce Hall, Queen Victoria Market, cnr Elizabeth and Victoria Sts, Melbourne 3000 0419 347 631
The Victoria Market is a must visit for anyone vacating in Melbourne. This market is a long established world of culture that emanates from its wonderful array of food, clothing and street entertainment.