Tripodi’s Pantry

No website, no apparent phone number and an amorphous name that no one seems to know. Tripodi’s Pantry within the Northcote Shopping Plaza is lacking a lot of things but excellent fruit and veg certainly isn’t one of them.
I know I’ve sworn grocery allegiance to nearby Keep It Fresh grocery shopping wise but having discovered Tripodi’s Pantry I’m afraid I’m going to have to abscond.
Stocking a huge range of extremely well priced produce — we’re talking market prices here — alongside an excellent range of specialty Italian foodstuffs, my weekly shop now comprises a trip to the Gourmet Meat Rack with a stop-​off at Tripodi’s, and my wallet is all the more happy for it.
Tripodi’s sells a particularly well priced range of deli items such as salami and soft cheeses, some unusual Italian novelty items such as DIY lemon fizzy drinks and although its produce may not be supermarket quality aesthetically, I genuinely cannot taste the difference. Excellent.