Where do I buy injera in Footscray?

Mesnoy Injera Bakery at 77 Irving Street. Confirm hours. Bright Merkato at 43 Paisley Street is spices and flours, not the daily injera run.

Where can I send money from Footscray?

Dahabshiil at 14A/144 Nicholson, Kaah Express in shop 22 of the same block, and WOW General at 109-111 Nicholson. Bring ID. Confirm rates. This is not a bank branch.

Where do I buy Vietnamese herbs on Sunday?

Not the market hall. Not Little Saigon Market, which burned in 2016. Green Valley on Nicholson if that glass is lit. Coles at Footscray Plaza will not replace sawtooth coriander. Plan Saturday for the hall.

Where is a butcher for Vietnamese cuts?

Phuoc Thinh Butchers is listed at 75 Nicholson Street. The house site currently names St Albans and Sunshine only. Confirm the Footscray glass. The Irving meat hall still trades Tuesday to Saturday.

Where is Savers in Footscray?

33 Albert Street, plaza side, with the Coles and Kmart magnet. Household and clothes, not herbs. Albert Street parking, not Irving.

Do I need cash at the market?

Bring both. Some stalls prefer cash. Machines exist. Do not arrive card-only and shocked. Remittance desks want ID, not a grocery card.

Where do I park for grocery shopping in Footscray?

Irving Street deck for the market hall. Byron Street via Utility Lane for the old Little Saigon car park, not a live grocer. Albert Street for Coles, Savers and the plaza. Name the building before you enter a deck.

The weekly shop

Where to shop for ingredients in Footscray

Grocers first. Remittance on the same strip when you need it. Name the building.

Shop like you live here. Vietnamese groceries sit in Footscray Market at 18 Irving Street and Green Valley at 9/63-67 Nicholson Street. Little Saigon Market behind Hopkins burned 13 December 2016. The site is still empty. Phuoc Thinh Butchers is listed at 75 Nicholson. Confirm that glass. House locations now name St Albans and Sunshine. Injera is Mesnoy at 77 Irving. Ethiopian spices are Bright Merkato at 43 Paisley. Remittance is still listed at WOW at 109-111 Nicholson, plus Dahabshiil at 14A/144 Nicholson, and Kaah Express at shop 22 in the same block. Confirm the WOW desk. Coles at the plaza is the Sunday fallback. The hall is closed Sunday and Monday. Four grocer names are not one door.

Updated 2026-09-20

Where do you buy Vietnamese herbs and meat in Footscray?

Footscray Market at 18 Irving Street is still the produce, meat and seafood hall people mean when they say they shop in the west. Closed Sunday and Monday. Arrive before 9am on Saturday if you wanted herbs that have not been picked over and fish that has not been stared at. Shop produce first, meat second, seafood last. Bring a bag that can take ice. The parking guide names the Irving deck. This page names what goes in the bag. D&K Live Seafood at Shop 2, 28A Leeds is the street tank shop if you wanted oysters shucked to order, or Sunday fish when the hall is locked. Daily 9am to 6pm on the house site. It is not the Irving aisle.

Little Saigon Market, pinned at 80 Hopkins, was the other grocer complex. The indoor hall at 63-67 Nicholson and Byron burned on 13 December 2016. The site is still empty in 2025 reporting. Do not send a trolley there. The Byron car park via Utility Lane still trades. That is parking, not produce. Green Valley and Co sits at 9/63-67 Nicholson Street, the remaining grocer in that complex, phone (03) 9687 4009. Confirm the shopfront. Hours disagree in directories. Phuoc Thinh Butchers is listed at 75 Nicholson. House history says that street door opened after the 2016 fire. The live house location page now names St Albans and Sunshine only. Confirm the Footscray glass. Do not send Main Road East as this listing.

Where do you buy injera, teff and berbere?

Mesnoy Injera Bakery at 77 Irving Street packs teff, wheat and sorghum injera and sells dry goods. Time Out prints Monday to Saturday 8am to 8pm. Directories often add Sunday. Phone (03) 9687 8855. Confirm the door. Restaurant injera is a dinner at Lalibela. Bakery injera is a weekly shop. Do not queue at a dining room for a pack of flatbreads unless they sell them. Lemat Injera on Nicholson is an older name. Confirm it before you send anyone.

Bright Merkato at 43 Paisley Street is the Ethiopian import shop for spices, flours and clothing, directories Mon-Sat 10am-6pm, Sunday not listed. Paisley is not Irving. Cash is common for some spice lines. After dark, walk back via Barkly. WOW General and Trading at 109-111 Nicholson is still listed by African Youth Collective as groceries plus cargo and transfer. The live house site now sells juices and perfume. Confirm the desk. The Ethiopian food guide is the restaurant strip. This page is the pantry.

Where do you send money home from Footscray?

Dahabshiil Money Transfer at 14A/144 Nicholson Street is the Somali-founded remittance counter, phone (03) 9689 9688. Kaah Express is shop 22 in the same 144-148 block, phone (03) 9689 3712. WOW General on the same street also does international transfer, cargo and travel. Bring ID. This is not a bank branch. Confirm corridor, rate and ID rules at the desk before you join the wrong queue. Compare Dahabshiil and Kaah if both are open. The rate is the point.

Hair, braids and nails are a different search. Use the hair and beauty guide, not this grocer page. Vietnam travel sits at Vien Dong Tourist at 81 Nicholson, plus TUT and Go Vietnam. That is the professional services guide. This page only flags that Nicholson does more than herbs, and that a remittance queue is not a grocery extra you squeeze in with melting fish.

Is Little Saigon the same as Footscray Market?

No. The market is 18 Irving, closed Sunday and Monday. Little Saigon Market burned in 2016. The 80 Hopkins pin is a street face, not a live hall. Green Valley is the remaining grocer at 63-67 Nicholson. The plaza is Coles and Kmart on Albert Street. Four names. Four doors. First-timers mash them, park at the wrong deck, and then walk bags of ice across a junction that did not need to be a story.

The market guide is hours and parking. This page is what you put in the bag. Park once. Name the building. If someone said meet me at Little Saigon, ask whether they meant the empty Nicholson site, Green Valley, or the Byron car park. If they said the market, they meant Irving. If they said Coles, they meant the plaza, and they meant a different quality of coriander.

Where do you shop on Sunday?

Not the market hall. Coles Footscray Plaza at 18 Albert Street runs daily 7am to 10pm on the Coles store page. The plaza site still prints 6am to 8:30pm. Cite Coles. That is the Sunday building when Irving is a shutter. Little Saigon Market will not save you. Green Valley on Nicholson might, if that glass is lit. Hopkins bakeries for bread, not bulk herbs. Savers at 33 Albert Street if you meant clothes and household goods rather than coriander. Sunday is the day visitors get the suburb wrong. Plan it or cook what you already have.

Chemist Warehouse and TerryWhite still cover household extras. They are not grocers. Do not build a Sunday meal plan that needs the seafood hall, sawtooth coriander by the bunch, or a market offal cut. That plan needed Saturday. Forum threads about Footscray being closed on Sunday are usually threads about people who wanted the hall.

Where is Savers and the cheap household shop?

Savers Footscray sits at 33 Albert Street with the plaza magnet shops, store hours Mon-Wed 9am-7pm, Thu-Fri 9am-9pm, Sat 9am-6pm, Sun 10am-6pm, phone (03) 9689 6811. Reddit names it next to Salvos and dollar stores. That is a clothes and household run, not a spice run. Mix it with Coles on Sunday if you already parked on Albert Street. Do not mix it with Irving produce logic, and do not leave fish in the car while you try on a jacket. Kmart in the same plaza is Mon-Fri 8am-10pm and Sat-Sun 8am-8pm on the Kmart store page.

Highpoint remains another suburb. If you needed a mall, you left this guide. 3011 cheap shop is plaza-side. 3012 has its own IGA conversations on Reddit. Support local if you can. Confirm the door. A weekly shop that starts at Highpoint and never sees Irving is a different life, and a different coriander.

What should a first weekly shop look like?

Saturday before 9am at the market: herbs, fruit, offal or fish, maybe a food-court bowl if the hall still has one. Green Valley on Nicholson if you still need sauces and rice paper. Mesnoy if you needed injera. Merkato if you needed berbere, in daylight, then back to Barkly. Remittance only if that was the errand, because queues are not a grocery extra and ID is not optional.

Keep cash and a card. Keep ID if you might transfer. Keep a cold bag. Walk Hopkins after for a bakery roll if you still have a hand free. That is the living-here shop. Tourist bags of tropical fruit without a fridge plan are how fruit dies in a hot car, and how a first visit becomes a story about waste instead of a story about dinner.

Cash, ice and the bag you actually need

Some market stalls prefer cash. Machines exist. Do not arrive card-only and shocked. Green Valley and plaza Coles are more card-normal. Remittance desks want ID, not a grocery docket. Ice and a bag that can leak in a boot are the unglamorous facts forums skip and households learn once.

Park the Irving deck for the hall. Park Byron for the old Little Saigon car park if that was the pin, which is not a grocer. Park Albert for Coles, Savers and the plaza. Mixing those decks is the Footscray tax. The parking guide is the fee table. This page is why you came: the herb, the injera, the transfer, the butcher cut you cannot name in English until you point.

What do people get wrong about shopping in Footscray?

They treat three complexes as one. They come Sunday for the hall. They ask a restaurant to sell wholesale spices. They send remittance without ID. They park at the plaza for Irving. They think Highpoint is the Footscray weekly shop. They mash Dahabshiil with a bank branch and then wonder why the corridor is different.

Name the building. Name the day. Bring ID for transfer. Shop seafood last. If you are shopping for a household that cooks Ethiopian and Vietnamese in the same week, do Irving and the hall on Saturday, Nicholson remittance when the queue is short, plaza on Sunday. That is a west weekly shop. It is not a mall. It is better.

Questions people ask next

Is Little Saigon the same as Footscray Market?: No. Market is 18 Irving Street, closed Sunday and Monday. Little Saigon Market burned in 2016. Green Valley is the remaining grocer at 63-67 Nicholson. The Byron car park is parking, not produce.
Where do I buy injera in Footscray?: Mesnoy Injera Bakery at 77 Irving Street. Confirm hours. Bright Merkato at 43 Paisley Street is spices and flours, not the daily injera run.
Where can I send money from Footscray?: Dahabshiil at 14A/144 Nicholson, Kaah Express in shop 22 of the same block, and WOW General at 109-111 Nicholson. Bring ID. Confirm rates. This is not a bank branch.
Where do I buy Vietnamese herbs on Sunday?: Not the market hall. Not Little Saigon Market, which burned in 2016. Green Valley on Nicholson if that glass is lit. Coles at Footscray Plaza will not replace sawtooth coriander. Plan Saturday for the hall.
Where is a butcher for Vietnamese cuts?: Phuoc Thinh Butchers is listed at 75 Nicholson Street. The house site currently names St Albans and Sunshine only. Confirm the Footscray glass. The Irving meat hall still trades Tuesday to Saturday.
Where is Savers in Footscray?: 33 Albert Street, plaza side, with the Coles and Kmart magnet. Household and clothes, not herbs. Albert Street parking, not Irving.
Do I need cash at the market?: Bring both. Some stalls prefer cash. Machines exist. Do not arrive card-only and shocked. Remittance desks want ID, not a grocery card.
Where do I park for grocery shopping in Footscray?: Irving Street deck for the market hall. Byron Street via Utility Lane for the old Little Saigon car park, not a live grocer. Albert Street for Coles, Savers and the plaza. Name the building before you enter a deck.