A tiny, perfectly curated general store and café in sleepy Somers, sourdough, pastries, cheese, Peninsula wines, and a weekend brunch menu.
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Why we’d goSomers General is the Peninsula's best-kept secret in retail form, a genuinely good general store in a village that has no business having one this good.
Somers General is the Peninsula's best-kept secret in retail form. The room is small, the shelves are tightly curated, Peninsula pantry goods, a cheese counter, a wine shelf that leans local, pastries and sourdough that would hold their own on Mornington's Main Street, and the weekend brunch menu is one of the quiet highlights of the Balnarring side of the Peninsula.
What makes the place special is that it feels like it should not exist. Somers is small, sleepy, and almost never on the day-trip list. Finding a genuine general store here that is punching well above its postcode is one of those small Peninsula discoveries people return to every trip. The cheese counter and the local wine shelf alone would justify the detour from the Balnarring area.
Drive out on a Sunday morning. Stay for the brunch. Leave with a basket.
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Drive out on a Sunday morning, stay for the brunch, and leave with a basket of Peninsula pantry goods.
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