The Essential Ingredient is close to a bustling restaurant and cafe district in Newcastle. Serving those who love to cook – whether professional or amateur – and featuring a cafe serving deli items and coffee. It’s got some decent size tables, which make it a good place for a work meeting over coffee or lunch.
This is a fun place to explore. It’s also a place where you need to know your budget in advance, because it oh-so-easy to find all sorts of kitchen utensils, gadgets, pans, and supplies to make a dent in your bank account.
To find the food and cafe you need to make your way to the back of the store.
I think this duck – Essential Ingredient’s mascot – 
is pretty sweet.
They stock T2 and Peaberry’s coffee.
The coffee is locally roasted and packaged. I’ve sent this overseas before to rave reviews. It is good and strong – just the way I like it.
I really am quite enamoured by this range of espresso and tea cups. All the colours of the rainbow!
I was just asking someone this morning where i could find a gnocchi paddle – as you do. The one here is $4.95. I may go back for this one. Gnocchi really does taste better when rolled – i’m sure of it. I haven’t really experimented with pasta making, though these ravioli frames and pasta making looks like it could be an adventure.
The industrial space is light and airy – there’s a class kitchen back there too. I’ve always wanted to take a class here, but haven’t managed it yet.
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