Weekday Picnic, David Jones Food Hall

Lunch with the girls suddenly turns into a weekday CBD picnic. After a flurry of mid-morning emails debating the ideal lunch spot, we end up doing a quick whip-around the David Jones Food Hall instead.

We collect a series of smallgoods, a wedge of blue cheese and a crusty Laurent baguette big enough for three. The friendly woman behind the counter happily obliges my request to cut this into thirds, and we re-emerge back into the fluorescent-lit foodcourt laden with paper packages and happy grins.

Whilst the lunchtime crowds around us chomp on limp burgers, greasy kebabs, shiny fried noodles and over-priced sandwiches, we hastily unwrap our parcels with the delicious anticipation of Christmas. Or fare is spread out into a tabletop picnic. We rub our hands with glee before diving right in.

Our crusty baguette--all fluffy inside, is the carrier for shavings of coppa with chilli, slices of olive mortadella, discs of chilli salami and soft smoky mouthfuls of marinated eggplant. Although we had loitered over the displays of cakes and pastries, and the rows of exquisite handmade chocolates, dessert is a cheese course: a final bit of bread topped with a creamy slather of Shadows of Blue from Tarago River.

We eat. We chat. We wish we didn't have to head back to work.


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David Jones Food Hall
Basement, David Jones Market Street store
65-77 Market Street, Sydney
Tel: +61 (02) 9266 5544

This has been included as an Intrepid Eat on Grab Your Fork's Top 10 Sydney Eats for Tourists. Read the entire list here.

Opening hours:
Monday to Wednesday 9.30am - 6.00pm
Thursday 9.30am - 9.00pm
Friday 9.30am - 7.00pm
Saturday 9.00am - 7.00pm
Sunday 10.00pm - 6.00pm


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