Winter & Mann

Across Cedar Street from the Lake Eacham Hotel, this curated shop reads as a small gallery of the region's makers: North Queensland art on the walls, boutique and locally designed clothing on the racks, and shelves of gourmet produce, preserves and confectionery from Tablelands farms and kitchens. The premise is straightforward, gather the growers, artists and small producers of the tropical north under one roof and let the hampers and gift boxes do the exporting. It is the kind of provisioner a village leans on for a considered present or a picnic of local cheese, chocolate and cordial before a lake walk. Independent and single-site, it favours the artisan and the regional over the mass-produced, and doubles as a quiet directory of who is making what across the Tablelands, a useful first stop for a visitor working out the district's producers.