The Essential Ingredient

The Essential Ingredient is a food lovers’ paradise frequented by chefs and home cooks, all aspiring to be better in the kitchen.

Discover Melbourne’s most comprehensive range of specialty ingredients, including everything from quality saffron and couverture chocolates to a great selection of olive oil, vinegar, spreads, pastes and more!

You’ll find top of the range cookware, popular culinary books, glassware and a wide range of dinnerware. The Essential Ingredient is also home to Melbourne’s highest profile cooking school.

The Essential Ingredient also offers a knife sharpening service.  Drop your favourite knives off on the first and third Tuesday of every month, and then pick them up from the following day.

“We’re only too happy to help with your next culinary adventure.”
The Essential Ingredient.