Victoria

The Market on Yates
& The Market on Millstream
903 Yates Street (250) 381-6000
125-2401 C Millstream Road (250) 391-1110
The finest example of a smooth market machine. Heavy into fresh, organic and everything else you could imagine. The market stores are one of the best small grocery chain I have yet been privileged to work with, and were one of the first to help me get onto the shelves years ago. Thanks Ernie and Mike!

Ottavio Italian Bakery and Delicatessen
  2232 Oak Bay Ave.
This is Victoria’s one-stop shop for lovers of Italian and other styles of European food, whether made overseas or down the road. Cheeses, cured meats such as wild boar prosciutto, fantastic lasagna, wonderful breads, pasta, sauces, splendid olive and truffle oils, beautiful cookies, gelato and coffee are just a few of the items available for sale. Did I mention that you could also have a nice lunch there…

Plenty Epicurean Pantry
1034 Fort St.
This downtown store with a country feel has the most eclectic array of fine food products in the city. To give you a short example, Plenty offers the city’s largest selection of specialty artisan foods; Cowichan Bay red fife wheat flour; a mountain of beautifully crafted BC preserves; Vij’s garam masala; Denman Island chocolate; local cheese; and some great wild food products.

Ambrosio Market and Deli
With 3 locations in Victoria, Oak bay, James bay, and Cook street village, you will find fresh produce, cool import foods from Italy, and good deli's in each location. If your shopping in the James bay location say hi to Terry for me, she is a fantastic woman.


Lifestyles market on Douglas, Victoria.
Lots of food demo's, all your supplement needs (or desires). Great local produce and a huge store that has everything you could need. Weather you want local meat or if you have hippy, vegan, vegi, lactose intolerant, low sodium, organic interests, you will find awesome ingredients here.

Share Organics, Victoria.
Our mushrooms are available through Share Organics box program, which is online, easy ordering.
Share Organics has a great fresh box program in victoria, check out the link above if your interest is low carbon delivery, fresh from the farm produce and more. These guys have some great wild foods in season as well.


The Rootcellar. Victoria.
Don't kid yourself, if you don't shop here, START!
 Fresh, local, unique and lots of it. A busy place and you will see why.

Choux Choux Charcuterie, Victoria
 830 Fort St.
This quaint and busy store offers Victorian’s a taste of France. Fans of Choux Choux say they make the best pate in town (or any town, for that matter) and also offer a fine selection of sausages and other European-style cured and smoked meats, such as speck and smoked Cornish game hens. Choux Choux’s shelves are also stocked with things to serve with the above items, such as French pickles, mustards, cheeses, and of course our mushroom products.


Niagara grocery. James bay, Victoria.
The folks down here in James bay are doing it right. Their little store is packed with local foods, and they roast a great coffee. Formerly a little convenience store offering smokes and loto tickets, Jennifer and Ken have transformed this location into a mecca for local, fresh, and celiac friendly foods.

Pepper's Foods
3829 Cadboro Bay Road
(250) 477-6513
If I lived around here, not doubt in my mind, this would be my grocery store. Great staff, great products.

Artisan Wine Shop, Victoria

1007 Government Street, I buy my fine wines here. I think you should too.

Sebastian and the staff here are very knowledgeable and easy going. These guys have quality products, and great taste without being wine snobs:)

Red Barn, Matticks farm, Cadbouro bay, Victoria
A superb place to shop for everyday or special ingredients, plus its a beautiful spot to hang out and have a coffee while you peruse the shops in the square.

VQA wine shop Matticks Farm, Victoria
Drop in when you are in the Matticks area, and Beth will sort you out as far as a good bottle to take home.

Charelli`s
 2863 Foul Bay Rd.
This store has a little something for every fine food lover and has built and loyally following thanks to exceptionally friendly customer service. A unique offering of over 100 cheeses, European preserves of all kinds, smoked fish, French marshmallows and a wide range of other delectable delights await you at Charelli’s. You can find our bulk mushrooms here.

Maria's Deli & European imports, Victoria.
  4080 Shelbourne St.
Most people will feel at home in this cheerful shop that has been open for more than two decades. Indeed, the wide selection of well-priced Mediterranean-style meats, cheeses, pastas, olive oils, sauces, sweets and crusty Portuguese-style buns will make you want to ask the owner for a table so you can sit down beside her and eat.

Feys & Hobbs catered arts, Victoria.
Seriously wonderful. This catering business is your primo choice. Corners are not cut around here, only the best.
I heartily recommend anything David gets involved in. There are frozen entres and preserves to take away too!

Urban Oasis, Victoria
A lot of cool gardening stuff, and a foods store in the works, promoting local, sustainable products.

La Piola, Victoria
Best, authentic, fresh made pasta and Italian cuisine in town. A bit of a secret still, but not for long.
Once you are in the know, this is where you will go for a great lunch or a formal dinner.

Sips Artisan Bistro, Victoria
Spinnakers is not making a wild mushroom beer at this point but I wouldn't put it past them with their other successes. This new little spot in James bay is working with some pretty cool food characters(like us:) promoting local food, doing some cooking, and of course serving some fine ales.



South Vancouver Island


Duncan community farm store. Duncan.
Probably the best place to shop and then have a fresh lunch in Duncan. But if you have been here you already know that, without a doubt.

Hillarys cheese, Cowichan bay.
Leaders in slow-food, this is one of the main reasons to go to the slow-food city of Cowichan bay and check out some great homemade cheeses. Their neighbors are going to be on your list of places to venture into as well.


Dearholm farm, Duncan.
How can I summarize this place? Awsome. We are talking about 1st class cooking, atmosphere, slow-food, local....I suggest you click the link above and take a tour of this hidden gem. Bill is a friend, a mushroom lover, and if you are interested in gourmet, farm/forest to table cooking, you have arrived.

Tugwell creek meadery, Sooke.
Top of the line Meads, a great family operation, and an education on bee's is in store at this beautiful farm in Sooke.
Bob and Dana are making an elixir of love (Mead) with the help of a few thousand little friends. Make sure you include Tugwell into your tour through Sooke.

Sooke Harbour house gift shop, Sooke.
Even if you live in the lost city of Atlantis you should have heard of the Harbour House. If by some strange quirk of fate you haven't, I suggest you check out ''one of the top ten restaurants in the world''. Be sure to stop by Tugwell creek meadery (link above this one) while you are in the area, its a perfect duo.


Gulf Islands locations

Bowen Island Butcher Shop, Bowen Island
Quaint, cool and friendly, drop by if your on the Island.

Natureworks, Saltspring Island
This is where you will shop for your picnic if you are on the Island for the day, or you are already a regular if you are a resident of Saltspring. Fresh local produce, herbal suppliments, gourmet tea...you'll see.

Saltspring Cheese Co., Saltspring Island
I recommend doing a tour of this quaint, professional, artisan shop and farm. David and Denise are wise in the ways of good cheese, and man...what a nice spot. When on Saltspring, don't miss it.

Del Vecchio Pasta Fresca, Saltspring Island
Wow! fresh made pasta, homemade pesto, local ingredients, awesome people.
Dont miss this lunch in Ganges, and take some fresh pasta home as well.



Central Vancouver Island

Brambles Market, Courtenay
A great little market with fresh, local and earth friendly products. Like a 100 mile food store + more.

The worldy gourmet, Ladysmith
The Worldly gourmet is a great spot to pick up highly specialized, top-end kitchen gadgets, or a special gourmet ingredient. Jenny has whatever a cook could need, in a well organized, friendly atmosphere.

Urban beet, Nanaimo
Drop by for a cup of morning coffee, come in for lunch and nourish
your soul, or dash in for some delicious dinner take-away.

McLean's specialty foods, Nanaimo
McLean’s Specialty Foods offfers a unique, always-changing selection of fresh and imported delicacies and specialty food products as well as over 100 varieties of cheese from around the world.
If you like to read Gourmet, Fine Cooking, Canadian Living, or any other food publication, you will enjoy McLean's Specialty Foods

Red House Market, Nanaimo
Joshua and his team are an up and coming cool culinary location. Focused on local artisan products, expect to find some great eats and some fantastic gifts at his beautiful little shop.



Vancouver locations:

Edible British Columbia, Vancouver BC
Top of the line local, wild food. Check them out.

Planet Organic, Port Coquitlam BC
I suspect you already know how great his company is and the wide variety of organic products that they offer nation-wide.



Canada-wide locations:

Planet Organic, Nationwide
I suspect you already know how great his company is and the wide variety of organic products that they offer nation-wide.