City guide · Victoria
Best Sausage and Peppers in Melbourne
Where is the best sausage and peppers in Melbourne?
Lygon Street in Carlton is the best Italian street outside Italy by Larry's reckoning, and the best sausage and peppers in Melbourne is there or at the Queen Victoria Market grills — where peppers are called capsicum.
Locals ask for it as sausage and capsicum Melbourne (English).
| City | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
|---|---|
| Ask for it as | sausage and capsicum Melbourne (English) |
| Top 100 spots here | 2 |
| Best time to go | November through March, grilling weather, plus the Lygon Street festival in autumn. |
| Local rule | Capsicum means pepper here, and chilli means chilli. Say pepper and you may get black pepper. |
Melbourne's post-war Italian migration was enormous, and Lygon Street has been the centre of it since the 1950s. The sausage here is made by families who have been grinding it for three generations.
Queen Victoria Market is the other stop: buy fresh links from the deli hall and grill them the same day.
Melbourne on Larry’s Top 100
| Rank | Where | Order this | Larry’s note |
|---|---|---|---|
| #95 | Melbourne's Lygon Street | Sausage and peppers, Carlton style | The best Italian street outside Italy. Debate welcome. |
| #96 | Queen Victoria Market grills | Fresh sausage with capsicum | They say capsicum. Same thing, more syllables. |
Menus, feast dates and opening hours change. Call ahead before you travel.
How to order it in Melbourne
- Sausage with charred capsicum and onion, on a crusty roll.
- Ask for the fennel sausage rather than the plain pork.
- At the market, buy the sausage and the capsicum in the same trip — both are better than they need to be.
The local rule: Capsicum means pepper here, and chilli means chilli. Say pepper and you may get black pepper.
Best time to go: November through March, grilling weather, plus the Lygon Street festival in autumn.
Questions people ask about Melbourne
What are peppers called in Australia?
Capsicum. Red, green and yellow capsicum are exactly the bell peppers the recipe means.
Where is the best Italian food in Melbourne?
Lygon Street in Carlton for restaurants and delis, Queen Victoria Market for sausage and produce. Both have been Italian strongholds for seventy years.
Make it at home instead
You do not need a plane ticket. Larry’s own version takes about forty minutes in a cast-iron pan.
Sausage and peppers in other cities
Elsewhere in Australia
Further afield
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