P&P Food and Spices offers pretty much everything you need to create a Mediterranean-style meal — and often at one-third the price of regular supermarkets.
Parmesan from Italy, oysters from France and sardines from Spain are some of the specialties P&P flies in once a week from European countries.
Located on the first floor of a building at the corner of Dingzhou Road (汀州路) and Jinmen Street (金門街), the wholesaler’s cramped warehouse is packed full of easier to find items such as olive oil and pesto, and harder to find goodies such as truffles and caviar. The walk-in refrigerator overflows with stacks of Roquefort, camembert and buffalo mozzarella cheeses — to name just a few — while boxes of fresh herbs and spices from the Netherlands (basil, mint, rosemary, chives, thyme and sage) are stacked on the cooler floor beside crates of romaine, squash, radicchio and whole spice.
P&P stocks a broad selection of Italian wines, ports and aperitifs. The only thing missing is fresh bread. For that, head off to Boite de Bijou, located in an alley directly behind National Taiwan Normal University (get there before 5pm because the bread sells out fast).
▲P&P Food & Spices, 9-14 Jinmen St, Taipei City (台北市金門街9-14號). Open daily from 8:30am to 6pm, closed Sundays and from Feb. 13 through Feb. 19. Tel: (02) 2365-2340. On the Net: www.pnpfood.com
▲Patisserie Boite de Bijou (珠寶盒法式點心坊), 19-1, Ln 33, Lishui St, Taipei City (台北市麗水街33巷19號之1). Open daily from 10am to 9pm. Tel: (02) 3322-2461
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