Historic Ripponlea prides itself on its unique character and unusual retail offerings. This intimate strip has a small supermarket in Ripponlea but no bank, no chain stores, not even any fast-food outlets.
Concentrated in a small strip of beautifully maintained heritage buildings, Ripponlea focuses firmly on fine foods. There’s the delicatessen, specialising in European delicacies and kosher foods, Kleins restaurant-quality gourmet food to take home, the award winning 3 hat Attica restaurant serving Middle Eastern flavours in a refitted former bank building, Bala da Dhaba, one of Melbourne’s best Indian/Nepalese restaurants and the groovy music venue, Lyebird lounge,.
There are also some amazing discoveries for anyone looking for the unusual, the unique and the ubiquitous - window-shopping along this quaint retail strip will reveal home wares, gifts, collectables and antiques just waiting for the discerning shopper.
Ripponlea Traders Association