P hillippa’s F linders and beyond BY RICHARD CORNISH
Phillippa Grogan is a household name for many food-lovers. The baker and chef founded her eponymous bakery and food store in Armadale nearly 30 years ago. Since then, she and her husband, Andrew O’Hara, have expanded the business supplying shops and grocers with their baked goods and provisions. Phillippa has an eye for good food and has spent the best part of every summer of her life swimming, sailing, walking and eating on the Peninsula, and spends weekends at her house in Flinders. She shares some of her favourite places and food experiences on the Peninsula. “As a baker I look for great bread. I love what Margaret and David do at Flinders Sourdough. They run the original wood-fired oven and bake true sourdough. They also do a beach bun full of dried vine and stone fruit and topped with granular sugar. So good with a cup of strong tea mid-morning. Another bakery I rate highly is Miller’s in Dromana. It’s tucked in near Aldi, and they bake great cakes. They make great textured focaccia with an array of toppings. On Thursdays they have a pizza night called Papa Ragu’s – I love the capricciosa made with speck, anchovies and hand-stretched mozzarella.
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“I have always dropped into the Merricks General Store on the way to Flinders. It first opened in the early 1920s, and I remember back in the 1980s the 25 cent sausage rolls being scoffed down by hungry surfers. It’s now a high-end cafe and cellar door for Baillieu Wines and Elgee Park. I like picking up a coffee and a sausage roll before walking up the old rail trail to Red Hill South. “One of the most beautiful little cellar doors on the Peninsula is Foxeys Hangout. It’s small, with a balcony looking out over the vineyards. Owners Tony and Michael Lee have been serving a
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