all the Peninsula's Shopping attractions and their websites
Sorrento shopping includes fine food stores with lots of local produce, a tantalising choice of cafes and restaurants, antique and art galleries, day spas, bookshops, artisan craft outlets, designer boutiques and lots of others selling beautiful beach and casual wear. Portsea is most famous for its fabulous pub, which sits right on the beach and is highly recommended for a sunset drink after all that retail exertion.
The Western Port Bay coastline is more peaceful than Port Phillip Bay, and there are small but good shopping opportunities:
Food and wine shopping in Balnarring, Merricks and Somers
Balnarring is best known as a winery region, and if you need picnic fare to accompany your wine purchases there's a good deli in the Balnarring shopping centre and a supermarket nearby. Merricks is tiny, but its renovated historic general store has a big reputation for its cafe, cellar door and produce. Delicious local chocolates are made just down the road. At Somers, locals love dropping in for coffee, breakfast or lunch at the 1927 general store that's been artfully remodelled.
Flinders shopping for food and antiques
If you're a fan of just-baked bread, Flinders has not one but two excellent bakeries, good cafes and antique stores, most of which can be explored under the town's historic shady verandahs. There's a long-established pub too.
Mornington Peninsula hinterland
The lush green hinterland is reminiscent of Tuscany or France, with little villages, vineyards, olive groves, rustic B&Bs and country house hotels.
Antiques and wine shopping in Tyabb and Moorooduc
Tyabb is internationally famous for Australia's largest antique centre, with 25 dealers in a huge building that was once an apple cool store, and a craft village right next door. Moorooduc is serious wine country, with half a dozen vineyards and cellar doors, a couple of excellent restaurants and producers ranging from honey and Christmas tree growers to alpacas and emus.
Food and wine shopping in Red Hill and Main Ridge
The rich red soil around Red Hill, Main Ridge and Red Hill South has created the greatest concentration of vineyards, orchards and food producers on the Mornington Peninsula. There are numerous cellar doors, a couple of small but excellent Red Hill shopping centres selling lots of local produce, cherry farms, a strawberry farm, an artisan cheese maker and galleries selling hand-blown glass, hand-painted tiles, paintings and sculpture.
Mornington Peninsula markets: fresh produce, crafts and antiques
Love fossicking for little treasures or local produce? Then you're heading for the right region, with nearly 20 Mornington Peninsula markets regularly setting up their stalls.
The best known and most popular are the Red Hill market (first Saturday of the month, September - May), Mornington Main Street market (every Wednesday) and Mornington Racecourse market (Sunday, fortnightly), Balnarring Racecourse market (third Saturday of the month, November to April), the Dromana market at the drive-in (every Sunday) and Frankston market (every Sunday).
There are also regular markets at Bittern, Boneo, Emu Plains, Hastings, Rosebud, Rye, Sorrento and Tootgarook. And while it's not strictly a market, the vast Tyabb Packing House is Australia's largest antique centre with more than 25 dealers. A village full of art and craft outlets is right next door.
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