Bas Foods

I first read about Bas Foods in "The Foodies' Guide to Melbourne" by Allan Campion and Michelle Curtis. Bas Foods are in Victoria Street, Brunswick. As mentioned in the Guide, it is a massive warehouse. The first aisle that caught my eye had various pots and pans, coffee pots and musical instruments such as darbuka's. Oh, and hookah pipes, so if that is your thing, then Bas Foods is the place to buy one.

Darbuka's on the top row, and some coffee pots below

Hookahs on the top row and more coffee pots?

The rest of warehouse is loaded with Middle Eastern, Turkish and Greek foodstuffs. The warehouse has wide clearly marked aisles. Bas Imports has many items available in bulk but the public can buy there as well and there are many items available in usable quantities.

All the usual dry goods are here in bulk quantities and some smaller quantities, lentils and other beans, spices, pickled vegetables, olives, olive oil, jam, halva and the list goes on. Big slabs of Turkish bread and tsoureki are available fresh.

In the freezer are bags of vegetables, dumplings and ravioli. In the fridge are buckets of fetta, and large packs of cheeses. There was so much in this place that I just couldn't write everything down! I am looking forward to return visits because I was a bit bedazzled by the array of goods!

One of the main reasons for coming here was to see if they stock Brik (Brick) pastry, a north African thin pastry, similar to phyllo/filo pastry. There are packs of filo pastry and there was another pastry yufka which is used to make boreks.

I spoke to the owner of the store and asked if they stock Brik/Brick pastry and he directed me to the yufka. It isn't brik pastry but seems to get used in a similar way to brik.

There are two warehouse stores in Victoria currently, Brunswick and Somerton (near Roxburgh Park) and another recently opened in Auburn, Sydney (but I think it may be geared more towards wholesale).

Bas foods

423 Victoria Street

Brunswick 3056

Ph 9381 1444

Open Mon to Sat

26-28 Somerton Rd

Somerton 3062

Ph 9308 8660

Open Mon to Sat

296 Parramatta Rd

Auburn NSW

02 9648 1622