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Just Open: Latin Foods and Wines, Deer Park

Kenny Weir

Latin Foods and Wines has moved to Deer Park.
Latin Foods and Wines has moved to Deer Park.Chris Hopkins

After seven years in the back streets of Sunshine North, Maria Escudero and Marco De La Plaza have relocated their cafe-slash-food-store-slash-bottle-shop, Latin Foods and Wines, to an expansive Ballarat Road premises on the Deer Park commercial strip.

The new space is much bigger, although they have retained the same down-to-earth style: wine, beer and liquor on one side; a deli, servery, kitchen and cafe on the other; groceries down the back.

As part of the move they've broadened their range of South American specialties such as mate tea and wines from Chile, Argentina and Spain with a few new lines to cater to Italian and Maltese communities – think cheese, cured meats and pasta.

Chacarero sandwich with sliced beef, melted cheese, mayonnaise, tomato, green beans and green chilli.
Chacarero sandwich with sliced beef, melted cheese, mayonnaise, tomato, green beans and green chilli.Chris Hopkins
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The blackboard menu of Sunshine North has been reprised at Deer Park in whiteboard form: South American-style sandwiches and burgers as well as empanadas, arepas (cakey corn flatbreads) and churros.

Breakfasts and dinners are in the pipeline but for now try the chacarero sandwich: tender sliced beef, melted cheese, mayonnaise, tomato, green beans and green chilli in a house-made bun called pan amasado.

Open daily 8am-8pm.

809 Ballarat Road, Deer Park, 03 8358 5503, latinfoodsandwines.com.au

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