Nigel - we love you

I wrote before about Nigel and his Kneads (bread) - he is just becoming more and more prolific. His breads can now be found, albeit in limited quantities, every day at Greenies Wholefoods in the Rapid Creek Shopping Village, Parap Fine Foods on Parap Road, the Gourmet Deli on Knuckey St in town, at the Mitchell St night markets (not sure when these are on) and somewhere else... *thinking* dammit I know there's somewhere else, but my memory is failing me - oh and I hear that Martin of Martin's cafe in Coconut Grove is selling Nigel rolls to go with his soups. His rye bread really is the bomb - I brought some into work the other day and it was snapped up by my workmates - he makes a mean sourdough.. it's all really really good.
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goumet deli - or gouRmet even!!!

For anyone in Darwin who remembers the Gourmet Deli, it's reopened. Used to be in Smith St, closed down for ages and is now in Knuckey St past EastWest restaurant and opposite Ben's Bakehouse. I recognised it from the communal tables! Anyway it's been given a pretty funky makeover and as well as doing breakfast and lunches and coffees and stuff they sell Italian and European deli items like pasta, olive oil, cold meats, sauerkraut, a strange mixture of stuff... haven't worked out the full story but don't really care cos the vego burger i had there today was really really good - it was a lentil and chickpea patty with caremalised onion, cos lettuce, tomato, soy mayo, cheese and i'm not sure what else. GOOD. My only criticism is that the patty slid around so much on the cos that it fell out of the burger - LUCKily i had a knife and fork and a napkin with which to amend the rapidly developing situation. They also do that really irritating thing - that seems to be peculiar to Darwin - where they serve your food ON the napkin. WHAT IS UP WITH THAT!?! There can be no good outcome when people do that! They also sell cakes, some made on the premises and some imported from Adelaide (??). Oh and Nivagi homeware stuff too. And they have free papers to read.