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from around the world, including Indigenous Australian blends, flavoured salts and sug-
ars. It has high-quality cooking accessories and gifts, and cooking classes, too. There's a
city store inside the
Block Arcade
(282 Collins St, Melbourne;
19, 57, 59)
.
BEAUTY
Lab Perfumery
(
www.thelabperfumery.com.au
;
360 Rathdowne St, North Carlton; 10am-5pm Sun-Tue, to 6pm Wed-Sat; 1, 8)
Feeling right at home along this boutique stretch of Rathdowne St, the Lab has an interest-
ing range of organic, Aussie-made skincare products, fragrances and beauty kits. Products
for men, too.
La Parisienne
FOOD
( 03-9349 1852; 290 Lygon St, Carlton; 9am-6.30pm Mon-Sat, from 10am Sun; 1, 8, 16)
A French in-
terloper in this most Italian of streets, Parisienne specialises in smallgoods and take-home
dishes that are authentically Gallic.
Boudin blanc
and
noir
(white and dark pork sausage)
,
duck confit and its famous pâtés and terrines will not disappoint. It also does a nice range
of bread and little pies that are perfect for picnic provisions, and keeps a range of evocat-
ively packaged pantry items.
Eastern Market
CLOTHING
( 03-9348 0890;
www.easternmarket.com.au
; 107 Grattan St, Carlton; 11am-6pm Mon-Sat; 1, 8, 16)
Fashion-maven territory with a deconstructed Euro-Tokyo edge. The space is itself an at-
traction: it's a 19th-century chapel with the owner's inimitable additions.
South Yarra,
Prahran & Windsor
Chapel St's South Yarra strip has both chains and smaller designer boutiques, but head in-
to Prahran and Windsor to find a far more eclectic mix. Cute Greville St runs off Chapel,
and has a good smattering of shopping opportunities, too.
Chapel Street Bazaar
VINTAGE
