Butchers, bakers and makers
Whether you’re packing for a picnic or want to stock up the pantry at home, you’re in the right place for delectable goodies to go. Our region offers fine meats, sweet, savoury and baked treats made to traditional recipes by families and people dedicated to their craft.
Billy’s Bakehouse and Tearooms
Billy’s Bakehouse has been a popular eatery on the main street of Mooroopna for more than two decades. While the original owner, Billy, has moved on, you can still pick up popular sweet treats and bakery staples from here. All the traditional sweet and savoury cakes and pastries, pies and bread are baked onsite, ready to eat in or take away.
Chocolate Apple Factory
The Chocolate Apple Factory is famous for exactly what it says: perfectly ripe apples smothered in all kinds of chocolate combinations. You’ll also find plenty of other local goodies and treats for the chocoholics lining the shelves of this much-loved iconic destination – just look for the gigantic windmill.
Higgins Bakery
Higgins Bakery has been baking bread for Shepparton and the Goulburn Valley since 1947. Get in early to sample this third-generation family business's extremely popular sourdough loaves, ciabatta and sausage rolls, plus its famous pies made to a traditional 75-year-old recipe.
Dunkirk Food Store
What began as a butcher shop is now a neighbourhood food store stocking everything from ready-made meals to bakery goods. You can still select some prime cuts of meat, however, perfect for a barbeque or your next Goulburn Valley-inspired home-cooked feast. You’ll find this friendly shop nestled in a North Shepparton shopping strip.
Fiore’s Bakery Cafe
Fiore’s Bakery Café is much more than a traditional bakery. Specialist baker, Charlie Fiore delights his customers with his Italian-inspired gourmet cakes, homemade gelato and pastries. This buzzing bakery in the heart of Shepparton is constantly filled with hungry visitors looking for hearty breakfasts and in-house lunches.
Krueger's Fine Meat and Smallgoods
Martin Krueger makes delicious artisan smallgoods like creamy liverwurst, chunky bratwurst and specialties such as melt-in-the-mouth mortadella, German-style smoked hot dogs, black pudding and much more. Stock up on grass-fed lamb and beef sourced from local farmers, some based just a few clicks away.
Meats and Moore
Brent Moore is passionate about his smallgoods. He buys whole beef carcasses from a local farmer on the outskirts of Tatura who raises his cattle free-range on pasture. Brent makes award-winning products with his own mix of salt, sugar and spices, then smokes the meats over native hardwoods.
Mooroopna Bakery
The Honig family has been baking since 2005 on the main street of Mooroopna. This bustling bakery and tea room are always busy with customers coming in for freshly iced doughnuts, a famous chicken parma pastie, and at Easter, some award-winning hot cross buns.
Murchison Bakery and Tearooms
A perfect tasting trail stop opposite a park overlooking the Goulburn River, this very popular bakery in an 1880s building serves classic country delights: caramel slice, meat pies, rocky roads, neenish tarts, freshly-made sandwiches and one of the region’s famous vanilla slices.
North End Bakehouse
Many small-town bakeries claim they make the best vanilla slice but only North End Bakehouse has the trophy to prove it this year. They just took out the coveted Baking Association of Australia award for the best vanilla slice in the country, as well as the most innovative hot cross bun for its Vegemite-flavoured version.
Tatura Bakery & Lunches
Many small-town bakeries claim they make the best vanilla slice but only North End Bakehouse has the trophy to prove it this year. They just took out the coveted Baking Association of Australia award for the best vanilla slice in the country, as well as the most innovative hot cross bun for its Vegemite-flavoured version.
Tatura Family Butcher
Brady Bourke at Tatura Family Butchers is a man who loves a good barbecue and stocks a huge range of products in his dedicated barbecue shop next door. That means you can pick up everything you need in one place, including aromatic fuel and Brady’s own range of seasoning, as well as fresh cuts and house-made sausages.
Tatura Hot Bread
Take a seat on a repurposed beer keg at Tatura Hot Bread and prepare for a smorgasbord of old-school bakery beauties including lamingtons with the right balance of chocolate and coconut, mini-pavlovas with dollops of cream and fresh strawberries. You’ll also find plenty of lunch and snack options along with take-home meals for travellers on the go.
The Urban Cottage
The Urban Cottage products are “made to elevate and inspire daily moments, turning mundane into magick” using only ethically and sustainably-sourced ingredients gathered as close to home as possible. From essential oils and tea blends to bath soaks and face kits, pick up everything you need for an enchanting spa treatment at home.
Tinto Kitchen
Baker Josh Wheeler recently turned his food van into a cool, clean, contemporary bakery and food store in the heart of Shepparton committed to using seasonal, local produce. A must-stop for anyone on the hunt for great coffee, buttery croissants, sourdough doughnuts and scrumptious bagels.