No. 01
Fresh & Garden
Produce chosen each morning from growers we know by name, then trimmed, not arranged to impress.
Est. by family charter · Grocers since the old days
The fine art of
The fine art of
the everyday
Crown & Co. is a grocer of considered things — produce chosen by hand, pantry goods worth keeping, and a cellar that knows its seasons.
Rooms open Tuesday to Sunday · Deliveries by arrangement
A word from the shop
“We do not sell everything. We sell the things worth keeping — chosen slowly, priced honestly, and wrapped like a gift even when it is only tomorrow’s supper.”
The Crown Family
Grocers & Purveyors
The Pantry
Four shelves of
Four shelves of
considered things
Every product earns its place twice — once on the shelf, and once more when you come back for it.
No. 01
No. 02
Bread & Larder
Loaves from a wood oven up the road, preserves in small batches, and oils pressed this season.
No. 03
The Cellar
Wines and small-batch spirits chosen for the table, not the trophy cabinet — with notes, not scores.
No. 04
Home & Care
Candles, soaps and the small essentials of a well-kept house — useful first, beautiful always.
Our rooms
One shop, four rooms
The floor plan never changes — you will always know where your regulars live.
Fresh & Garden +
Morning deliveries of produce and flowers, arranged by season rather than by shelf plan. Ask at the counter what arrived before sunrise.
Bread & Larder +
Bread lands warm at eight, and the larder keeps its jars, oils and preserves in the shade of the north wall.
The Cellar +
A cool, quiet room of wines and spirits with handwritten notes and a tasting corner on Fridays.
Home & Care +
The useful room — candles, soaps, linens and the small tools of a well-kept house, chosen to be used, not admired.
The Weekly Selection
Chosen on Sunday,
Chosen on Sunday,
sold while it lasts
A short list, not a catalogue — the things the rooms are proudest of this week.
Winter pearsWood-oven sourdoughAlpine cheeseFirst-press olive oilBay & rosemary candlesSmall-batch vermouthHoney from the orchard
Winter Pears & Bay
A cloth-wrapped box of pears from the old orchard, with a sprig of bay and a note on ripening them slowly.
$18.00per box of eight
Wood-Oven Sourdough
Baked at four, at the counter by eight. A crust that snaps and a crumb that keeps the week’s soups company.
$7.50per loaf
Alpine Cheese, Washed Rind
A soft cheese aged in the mountain dairy’s cellar, cut to order and wrapped in waxed paper.
$14.00per 250 g
First-Press Olive Oil
From this year’s early harvest — grassy, peppery, and bottled without delay in dark glass.
$26.00per 500 ml
Bay & Rosemary Candles
Poured by hand in the county, trimmed with herbs from our own garden rows.
$22.00per pair
Small-Batch Vermouth
A vermouth of orchard herbs and autumn roots — over ice, with a twist of the same.
$32.00per bottle
Crown SocietyMembership card
No. 0007
M · E · H
Founder member · Member since the first season
Points never expire2,480 pts
Membership & points
The Crown Society.
The Crown Society.
A quieter kind of club
No cards to scan at the till and no points to chase — spend with us and the ledger takes care of itself. Points become credit, and credit becomes the occasional something lovely.
I
FounderEarly access to each season’s selection, and first refusal on rare cellar arrivals.
II
HouseholdWeekly pantry credit, complimentary wrapping, and a standing delivery day.
III
GuestJoin by invitation from a member — a card that opens the rooms and little else, on purpose.
Online & delivery
The concierge
The concierge
carries it home
Write your list
By phone, note or email — plain words are fine. “The usual pears, and something for Sunday” works.
Choose the hour
We deliver within a chosen window, in the van with the good suspension, by a person who knows where things go.
Unwrap slowly
Everything arrives wrapped as if it were a gift — because around here, it is.
Choose a delivery windowWeek of October 12
The Tuesday van will call at your door between nine and eleven.
Arrange a delivery
Trade & bespoke
For kitchens, cellars
For kitchens, cellars
and great occasions
“A restaurant that serves our produce keeps its name out of the window — and that is exactly how we like it.”
i.
Wholesale accounts
Standing orders for restaurants and cafes, with produce chosen to their menus, not ours.
ii.
Bespoke hampers
Corporate gifts and wedding tables, composed by the rooms and wrapped by hand.
iii.
Cellar placement
For growers, distillers and makers nearby — a shelf in our rooms, sold with our notes attached.
Careers
Join the rooms
We hire for care and curiosity before experience — the rooms will teach the rest, slowly and properly.
Correspondence
Write to us.
Write to us.
We write back
Orders, trade enquiries or a maker with something wonderful — every letter and message is read at the counter, twice.
The Rooms12 Crown Passage, Old Town Quarter
Telephone0800 CROWN (0800 27696) · during room hours
Letterscorrespondence@crownco.example · trade@crownco.example
Room hoursTue – Sat 9:00–19:00 · Sun 10:00–16:00 · Mon closed