Toorak Road Melbourne

Toorak Road Melbourne

Your visit to Melbourne would be an incomplete one if you do not visit Toorak Road, Melbourne. While young, independent designers have outlets on Chapel Street, the exclusive shops along Toorak Road offer the latest designer labels. Not only shopping that has been attracting tourists to Toorak Road, but also the atmosphere, prestigious history of this particular locale has made it a tourist destination.

Toorak Road marketing complex is home to designer boutiques including Armani, Versace and Tiffany & Co. Shoppers with more bohemian tastes will find here an authentic range of clothing shops, gift and book stores. The cake shop of St Kilda, a traditional German Jewish area, is a thing to behold. The bayside suburb also features bookshops and trendy cafés. Moreover, restaurants over here are famous for the delicious local food.

Toorak is however, the most luxurious, elite area to live in Melbourne. Toorak Village, the Rodeo Drive of Australia, is the place to be seen and enjoyed. Here you can shop till you drop at the fashionable designer stores. Roam around this locale and pamper yourself silly at the hair and beauty parlors. Come here and enjoy a delicious meal at one of the many delightful cafés. Once your shopping fiesta is over, drop in to Silvers Nightclub. Another magnificent choice can be to watch a film at the Trak.

The name has been derived from Toorak House, a house constructed by James Jackson, a merchant, in 1849. The word may have come from indigenous words of identical pronunciation standing for reedy swamp or black crow. Toorak House, with its Italianate tower, and now in St. Georges Road set the architectural style for Toorak.

In the shops of this area, items like contemporary gifts, office accessories, unique storage systems, watches, eclectic range of accessories, scarves, cufflinks, braces, belts, bags and shoes, CDs DVDs accessories, fine range of quality leather goods, including garments, 100% Australian-made craftwork and art, Italian and English fine cotton ‘French cuff’ shirts combine elegantly with superb Italian silk ties and many more. Shopping at this area has its own charm, which you cannot ignore.

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