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Great Butcher, Great Service, Great Meat. They sell fresh chooks from GIlgandra Poultry. Plenty of cuts of meat from roasts, eye fillets and cattlemans cutlets, down to crumbed lamb cutlets and marinated ready to go stir-frys and the like. The shop has that old fashioned good butcher smell. They have one shop in Darling Street and one in the Riverdale Mall.
Every Thursday the Atlantic Fresh Seafood van comes to Dubbo, and there’s always a great selection of fish fresh from the Sydney markets. It parks at the service station in front of Harvey Norman on Cobra Street, about half way between Orana Mall and Macquarie Street.
Personally I love the flathead, although you need to get in early because it must be a local favourite, it always sells fast. There’s a slightly different selection each week, but always prawns, calamari, mussels, and a selection of fish such as salmon, deep sea perch, gemfish, barramundi, and other fish which I don’t really know very well but we certainly are eating more fish since the fresh seafood van has been coming to Dubbo!
Newtown Providores is one of Dubbo’s greatest small business success stories, a gourmet deli that has absolutely everything that Coles and Woolworths doesn’t.
Buffalo cheese, goats cheese, every cheese under the sun, vanilla pods, herbs and spices, more herbs and spices, exotic pasta, chunky red pesto dip, sourdough bread, french truffles, salad dressings, organic chicken, the best ham in Dubbo (by a long mile), fresh kaffir lime leaves, and the list goes on, and on, and on!
If you visit, make sure you leave plenty of time for a browse of the wares and a chat to the friendly staff. It’s the brainchild of Peter Davis, a man as passionate about his food as he is about science, and let me tell you, Peter is passionate about his science!
They also serve great coffee and generally have a copy of the local paper to read.
It’s at 62 Wingewarra Street, ph 6882 0055.
Peter also runs a coffee float at every Farmer’s markets.
There’s a Muffin break in Dubbo’s Centro Mall on the South End of Macquarie Street. I go there quite regularly for a muffin and coffee. Coffee is pretty good. Same with Muffins. It’s in a busy spot - I like feel of people walking past from Coles as I read the free local Newspaper they provide.
Come on down to the local Farmer’s Markets and you’ll meet all kinds of locals out for a browse. The markets are on the first and third Saturdays of the month in Dubbo, usually in the park alongside the Tourist Information Centre at the North end of Macquarie Street, but in rainy whether they often move into the RSL undercover carpark.
You’ll find all sorts of Fresh Produce including fruit and vegetables, organic produce, poultry, saltbush lamb, olive oil, wine, sourdough bread, as well as fresh coffee and food. There are also usually plant stalls - including native plants, flowers and vegetable seedlings. On special occasions you may be lucky enough to see a cooking demonstration from a local cheff or some live jazz music.
Click here to see some of the regular local stalls
If you want to set up a stall, you need to contact Macquarie Valley Food and Wine, their contact phone is 6885 4300 or you can try mvfoodwine@yahoo.com.au.
Riverdale is a smaller Mall with a very good Woolworth’s, a great Ice-Cream shop (KIWI Waffle cones), and out only Cinema, Reading Cinema. A couple of take-away shops out the front including an indian take-away which is OK.
Orana Mall Dubbo has a Big W, Woolworth’s, Franklins, Reject Shop and clothing/food shops & Bottle shop.
If you are entering Dubbo from Sydney via Wellington on the Highway, Orana Mall is on the right about 1km into town.
Public Toilets 20 metres in on the left as you walk in the left entrance.
The Shopping Mall at the South end of Macquarie Street.
It has Coles, Target, health food and clothing shops, a food court with Muffin Break, juice shop, donuts and great coffee at Gloria Jeans coffee, and pretty good kebabs. Public Toilets too.