Nio and Tony’s

This place is a rip off and to make matters worse, very unfriendly. $ 3.80 for 2l milk is one example of the prices. Generally the quality of the fruit and vegetables is bad too. The older male is particularly unfriendly (maybe Tony?). Every time I go in I vow not to return. Today, hey demanded 50 cent surcharge for using a card to pay for items totalling $ 7.40. Don’t go, walk further to make a point.

The friendly spirit of the good old-​fashioned corner store is alive and well at Nio and Tony’s grocers! They have an Aladdin’s cave of supermarket items and are open 6am-​10pm, 7 days.

Close friends and co-​workers know I hemmed and hawed (read: whinged endlessly) before moving to North Bondi. I was concerned about a lot of things, the hottest topic being how far the closest Woolys/IGA/[insert large brand supermarket] was from our prospective location. The humble storefront Nio and Tony’s occupies didn’t help. I thought it was merely adding insult to injury, you know, of living in such a dire location…
That is, until I stepped inside and found myself in Mary Poppin’s handbag. I don’t know how a store this tiny manages to do it, but they have *everything* the hubs and I used to cross all over town for. These guys have the specialty items we need (think Paul’s skim lactose free milk and gluten free products), fresh fish and poultry, a fully stocked Greek deli with cheese, bread and insanely delicious looking desserts, fresh flowers — and magically — every type of home-​ware we’ve needed from lightbulbs to extension cords to mops. And the price-​checker in me is happy to report that it’s not anymore expensive than you’d find at one of the bigger guys.
All this aside, the fellows inside (let’s hope it’s really Nio and Tony) are as sweet as can be. I spent more than a few big Olympic nights loitering a bit too long in their shop until I learned that the whole local community was doing the same thing. North Bondi is lucky to have such a great local shop.