Accoutrement Cook Shops

In foodie terms, Accoutrement, by rights should be classified under the ‘adult’ section. They sell all manner of culinary gear to spice up your edible lives. Gorgeous yet hideously priced crockery snuggles next to top of the range cylindrical devices that are so heavy duty they need to be plugged into the mains.
Exotically flavoured Chutneys, chocolate slathered ginger, gelatine leaves — If you’ve seen it on Masterchef, you’ll almost certainly find it in here.
A long and impressive list of celebrity chefs are associated with the cooking school here, imparting their secrets of the trade to Mosmanites in their droves. A friend of mine, who has been to several classes adores them, as evidenced by her giving of vouchers for them to friends.
The sweeties at this shop are my favourite though. Proper English ‘Liquorice Allsorts’, ‘Redskins’, Sour Bears. Yum. You divvy them out yourself and my son is allowed 50 cents worth of sweeties when we go to the library nearby. Given the general expense of the shop, this doesn’t buy many but with his dental health in mind, that just how we like it.

Foodies be warned — you will find it very difficult to leave this shop without buying anything. I’m not even a foodie and I walked out with three designer gift cards, two cute drinking cups and a packet of star shaped hundreds and thousand chocolates.
The store also has an cooking school in the back room. I had a peak at a class in progress as it is open to browsing shoppers. Though you can use your card you must spend over $ 20 — I got stuck out and had to rummage through my purse to find the dimes. Price wise you can find some inexpensive yummy original gifts and you can pay a lot for quality pots, pans and knives.
If gourmet food gifts, giant jars of strawberry jam and funky kitchen appliances are your things Accoutrement is your place.