Key Ingredients

This is the kind of shop where gourmands and amateur chefs go to desire every gourmet ingredient and interesting little kitchen gadgets. It is also the place where many people probably walk in to have a look around, come away with some fantastic ideas, and then go internet shopping. You see the very vibe of the place inspires one to think expensive thoughts at which point you do and then start thinking you’ll be ripped off if you actually do buy something from here.
Well I have to say that by taking a closer look around Key Ingredients that it is not really a rip off store at all. Everything is quite well priced. For sure, it does stock all kinds of French cheeses, single origin extra virgin olive oils and top of the range chef knives etc — so of course it is not a cheap shop. It is just not a rip off — that is all I am saying.
So if you are in the market for some kitchen inspiration. Or maybe and most likely, you need to buy your rich aunty a Christmas present, because she has invited you round for organic turkey served up on 17^th century porcelain plates, then Key Ingredients is just the kind of place you need to start looking.

Key Ingredients is culinary cuteness incarnate. From its quaintly encouraging slogan — ‘real inspiration for pretend chefs’ — down to its brightly coloured cooking utensils and not just metaphorically sweet ice creams, Key Ingredients is a cute, sweet little Clifton Hill cooking shop.
Selling a range of cookware, utensils, gifts and gourmet foods such as truffle gnocchi and ice cream in flavours such as Turkish Delight and ethically sourced Vanuatuan vanilla, Key Ingredients could turn even the most ardent mageirocophobic into a keen cook.
I lust after Key Ingredients’ solid wood chopping boards, bags of pink peppercorns and the like but cookware and ingredients this pretty and unusual don’t come cheap.
More the shop for the occasional indulgence than somewhere to buy all of your kitchen accessories and ingredients, Key Ingredients is the perfect place to go for something special to take to a friend’s house in lieu of a bottle of wine. A lovely place for a browse.