Mick’s Nut Shop

It is an absolute pleasure shopping here — one of the first shops we discovered after moving to Australia from the UK determined to live better and healthier. The staff are kind, attentive and knew us personally by our second visit. The vast selection of food crammed into such a small place never fails to amaze me! Highly recommend!

I love to snack and nuts are my healthy go-​to alternative. Mick’s has everything (including a clever name!) from dried fruits, flour, olives, nuts, and chocolate covered goodness. It sells things wholesale, so you can get items a bit cheaper here! Great to get things in bulk!

The little shop with the snicker-​inducing name. I often wonder if Mick was aware of the double entendre possibilities of his chosen moniker, or if he was just being to the point without a hint of irony.
My pick of the veritable galaxy of nuts, dried fruit and grains on offer at this old-​school food-​store is Mick’s famous muesli. Complete with big hunks of dried mango, buttery almonds and oats (just to name a few of its not too secret ingredients) it’s tasty, wholesome and no more expensive than you’d pay at the supermarket. I’ve heard through the grapevine that it’s been made to the same winning formula since 1990. Mick’s Nuts — an institution that’s good for your constitution.

Mick’s nuts has become my go to staple for snack foods,
I’ve been kicking myself that I fell into the trap of convenience set by Coles.
(NEVER again shall I succumb to those Pick’n’Mix demons!)
Mick’s is a somewhat dilapidated building I always mistook for being condemned,
BUT being Westend I should have known that looks are usually pretty deceiving.
Crammed, stuffed and squeezed into every millimetre are bags of nuts, olives,
seeds and other gastronomical delights.
This place also takes personalized service to a whole new level,
once you’re a regular you’ll know how to dodge around the staff
frantically nipping around and about you with customer orders.
Being a very busy place on the weekends dithering is strictly forbidden here.
I usually have some sort of pre-​determined list to avoid the ahhming and ahhing.
If you are a newbie, I strongly recommend you start with the macadamias
(A bag of Chocolate almonds would do you no harm as well.)

Mick’s Nuts. A West End institution. I mean, lots of the things you can get at Mick’s Nuts you can get anywhere but you just don’t want to.
It would mean missing out on cramming into a tiny space and making yourself as inobtrusive and as small as you can be while the staff dance and weave around you getting orders.
It would mean you’d have to get things for yourself, rather than have the ever lovely experience of someone coming up to you and asking for your order, then finding and perfectly measuring out your desired quantities and returning them to you without you having to move an inch if you don’t want to.
It would mean you probably wouldn’t casually peruse the ceiling high shelves of goods they have to sell. From end to end on each and every shelf are big, clear bags and jars of bulk goods, all there for you to explore. Whereas sometimes in a supermarket, variety can be too much, in Mick’s Nuts, the variety is liberating. At Coles, you will agonise over whether to buy the homebrand diced tomatoes for 92c or to buy another commercial brand of diced tomatoes for $ 2.95. At Mick’s Nuts, you will get excited over seemingly endless possibilities of flours, or dried fruits, and having the option to choose between commercial, local and organic. Dried organic mangos, anyone?
The service is always kind and lovely, and even if it takes some time to get everything on your shopping list, it is absolutely worth the wait. You don’t get service like this anywhere anymore. It’s as rustic and as special an experience as having the gas boy come up to the window of your car and asking how much gas you’d like, maam.
Do it. Transport yourself back to a slower, more patient, and easier time. Go to Mick’s Nut Shop today.