This is my local and I love it! The staff have excellent customer service skills and seem genuinely interested in helping you or even just asking you about your day, which is really good for a fruit and veg shop I think. They sometimes have huge boxes of fruit and veg ready to eat (about to expire) for $4 and $5 which we buy and make fresh juices, dips, pasta sauces etc great value!

Carina Fresh is an extraordinary deli and fruit & veg store. It's quite a rare beast in that it caters both for the high end of the market, particularly in respect of the deli items, and also to those less well heeled members of the community. At the front of the store there are always buckets of extraordinarily fresh fruit at even more amazing prices. Each bucket would hold in excess of 1kg of produce. Yesterday, for example, a bucket of divine looking Cavendish bananas were selling for $1.49, whilst a bucket of Honey Murcott Mandarins were going out the door for 99c. Potatoes, carrots and apples are always available at excellent prices.

Once inside the store one's senses are confronted by the plethora of deli items. "Boydie's Cheese Bar" has an exquisite collection of cheeses including Greek Massari, Sheep's Milk, Windsor Red, Buffalo's Cheese, Roaring Forties Blue, Black Wax Cheddar and numerous varieties of King Island cheeses, to name but a few. A wide variety of water crackers are sold to compliment the cheese. Although the cheeses on offer aren't cheap, they are certainly a delight for the connoisseur.

Once you reach the refrigerated deli display cabinets you are knocked over by the plethora of different varieties of olives. Amongst those available are green stuffed, fetta stuffed, parmesan stuffed, chilli stuff, Sicilian, marinated Italian and smoked Kalamata olives.

Carina Fresh also sell an amazing range of pastas, including one of my son's favourites, a rainbow coloured variety. Available as well is fresh pasta. Nuts, nuts and more nuts are available at the front of the store, together with a vast array of condiments and sauces.

It's difficult to give an adequate summary of just how awe inspiring this store is. If you're interested in finding out more a somewhat dated, but nonetheless still relevant, review appeared in the Courier Mail in 2008. You can access David Costello's article here - http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/fresh-take-on-quality/story-e6frer66-1111116846362