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We deliver within the Melbourne Metropolitan area. If you live in the outer suburbs, please check your suburb below before ordering:

Banyule

Includes: Bellfield, Briar Hill, Bundoora, Eaglemont, Eltham North, Greensborough, Heidelberg, Heidelberg Heights, Heidelberg West, Ivanhoe, Ivanhoe East, Lower Plenty, Macleod, Montmorency, Rosanna, St Helena, Viewbank, Watsonia, Watsonia North, and Yallambie.

Bayside

Includes: Beaumaris, Black Rock, Brighton, Brighton East, Cheltenham, Hampton, Hampton East, Highett, and Sandringham.

Boroondara

Includes: Ashburton, Balwyn, Balwyn North, Camberwell, Canterbury, Deepdene, Glen Iris, Hawthorn, Hawthorn East, Kew, Kew East, Mont Albert, and Surrey Hills.

Brimbank

Includes: Albanvale, Albion, Ardeer, Brooklyn, Cairnlea, Calder Park, Deer Park, Delahey, Derrimut, Hillside, Kealba, Keilor, Keilor Downs, Keilor East, Keilor Lodge, Keilor North, Keilor Park, Kings Park, St Albans, Sunshine, Sunshine North, Sunshine West, Sydenham, Taylors Lakes, and Tullamarine.

Cardinia

Includes: Beaconsfield, Beaconsfield Upper, and Clematis.

*We only deliver to the above suburbs in this council area.

Casey

Includes: Beaconsfield, Berwick, Cranbourne, Cranbourne East, Cranbourne North, Cranbourne South, Cranbourne West, Doveton, Endeavour Hills, Eumemmerring, Hallam, Hampton Park, Harkaway, Junction Village, Lynbrook, Lyndhurst, Lysterfield South, Narre Warren, Narre Warren North, and Narre Warren South.

*We only deliver to the above suburbs in this council area.

Darebin

Includes: Alphington, Bundoora, Fairfield, Kingsbury, Macleod, Northcote, Preston, Reservoir, and Thornbury.

Frankston

Includes: Carrum Downs, Frankston, Frankston North, Frankston South, Langwarrin, Langwarrin South, Sandhurst, Seaford, and Skye.

Glen Eira

Includes: Bentleigh, Bentleigh East, Brighton East, Carnegie, Caulfield, Caulfield East, Caulfield North, Caulfield South, Elsternwick, Gardenvale, Glen Huntly, McKinnon, Murrumbeena, Ormond, and St Kilda East.

Greater Dandenong

Includes: Bangholme, Dandenong, Dandenong North, Dandenong South, Keysborough, Lyndhurst, Noble Park, Noble Park North, Springvale, and Springvale South.

Greater Geelong

**Orders for Greater Geelong will be delivered on Fridays only. If you have selected delivery to Greater Geelong for a day other than Friday, your order will be delivered on the soonest Friday.

Hobsons Bay

Includes: Altona, Altona Meadows, Altona North, Brooklyn, Laverton, Newport, Seabrook, Seaholme, Spotswood, South Kingsville, Williamstown, and Williamstown North.

Hume

Includes: Attwood, Broadmeadows, Bulla, Campbellfield, Coolaroo, Craigieburn, Dallas, Diggers Rest, Fawkner, Gladstone Park, Greenvale, Jacana, Kalkallo, Keilor, Meadow Heights, Melbourne Airport, Oaklands Junction, Roxburgh Park, Somerton, Tullamarine, Westmeadows, and Yuroke.

Kingston

Includes: Aspendale, Aspendale Gardens, Bonbeach, Braeside, Carrum, Chelsea, Chelsea Heights, Cheltenham, Clarinda, Clayton South, Dingley Village, Edithvale, Heatherton, Highett, Mentone, Moorabbin, Moorabbin Airport, Mordialloc, Oakleigh South, Parkdale, Patterson Lakes, and Waterways.

Knox

Includes: Bayswater, Boronia, Ferntree Gully, Knoxfield, Lysterfield, Rowville, Sassafras, Scoresby, The Basin, Upper Ferntree Gully, Wantirna, and Wantirna South.

Manningham

Includes: Bulleen, Doncaster, Doncaster East, Donvale, Nunawading, Park Orchards, Ringwood North, Templestowe, Templestowe Lower, Warrandyte, Warrandyte South, and Wonga Park.

Maribyrnong

Includes: Braybrook, Footscray, Kingsville, Maidstone, Maribyrnong, Seddon, Tottenham, West Footscray, and Yarraville.

Maroondah

Includes: Bayswater North, Croydon, Croydon Hills, Croydon North, Croydon South, Heathmont, Kilsyth, Kilsyth South, Park Orchards, Ringwood, Ringwood East, Ringwood North, Vermont, Warranwood, and Wonga Park.

Melbourne

Includes: Carlton, Carlton North, Docklands, East Melbourne, Flemington, Kensington, Melbourne, North Melbourne, Port Melbourne, Parkville, Southbank, South Wharf, South Yarra, and West Melbourne.

Melton

Includes: Brookfield, Burnside, Burnside Heights, Caroline Springs, Diggers Rest, Eynesbury, Kurunjang, Melton, Melton South, Melton West, Mount Cottrell, Plumpton, Ravenhall, Rockbank, Taylors Hill, and Truganina.

Monash

Includes: Ashwood, Burwood, Chadstone, Clayton, Glen Waverley, Hughesdale, Huntingdale, Mount Waverley, Mulgrave, Notting Hill, Oakleigh, Oakleigh East, Oakleigh South, and Wheelers Hill.

Moonee Valley

Includes: Aberfeldie, Airport West, Ascot Vale, Avondale Heights, Essendon, Essendon Fields, Essendon North, Essendon West, Flemington, Keilor East, Kensington, Moonee Ponds, Niddrie, North Melbourne, Strathmore, Strathmore Heights, and Travancore.

Moreland

Includes: Brunswick, Brunswick East, Brunswick West, Coburg, Coburg North, Fawkner, Fitzroy North, Glenroy, Gowanbrae, Hadfield, Oak Park, Parkville, Pascoe Vale, Pascoe Vale South, and Tullamarine.

Mornington Peninsula

Includes: Arthurs Seat, Balnarring, Balnarring Beach, Baxter, Bittern, Blairgowrie, Boneo, Cape Schanck, Capel Sound, Crib Point, Dromana, Fingal, Flinders, Hastings, HMAS Cerberus, Main Ridge, McCrae, Merricks, Merricks Beach, Merricks North, Moorooduc, Mornington, Mount Eliza, Mount Martha, Pearcedale, Point Leo, Portsea, Red Hill, Red Hill South, Rosebud, Rye, Safety Beach, Shoreham, Somers, Somerville, Sorrento, St Andrews Beach, Tootgarook, Tuerong, and Tyabb.

Nillumbik

Includes: Arthurs Creek, Bend of Islands, Christmas Hills, Diamond Creek, Doreen, Eltham, Eltham North, Greensborough, Hurstbridge, Kangaroo Ground, Kinglake, Kinglake West, North Warrandyte, Nutfield, Plenty, Research, Watsons Creek, Wattle Glen, Yan Yean, and Yarrambat.

*We only deliver to the above suburbs in this council area.

Port Phillip

Includes: Albert Park, Balaclava, Elwood, Melbourne, Middle Park, Port Melbourne, Ripponlea, South Melbourne, Southbank, St Kilda, St Kilda East, St Kilda West, and Windsor.

Stonnington

Includes: Armadale, Glen Iris, Kooyong, Malvern, Malvern East, Prahran, South Yarra, Toorak, and Windsor.

Surf Coast*

Includes: Airey's Inlet, Anglesea, Bambra, Bannockburn, Barrabool, Big Hill, Birregurra, Buckley, Deans Marsh, Eastern View, Fairhaven, Gherang, Gnarwarre, Inverleigh, Lorne, Modewarre, Moggs Creek, Murgheboluc, Ombersley, Paraparap, Pennyroyal, Point Roadknight, Wensleydale, Winchelsea, Winchelsea South, Wurdiboluce.

*We deliver to the Surf Coast every Friday. Orders must be received by 2pm Wednesday each week. If you have selected delivery to Surf Coast for a day other than Friday, your order will be delivered on the soonest Friday.

Whitehorse

Includes: Balwyn North, Blackburn, Blackburn North, Blackburn South, Box Hill, Box Hill North, Box Hill South, Burwood, Burwood East, Forest Hill, Mitcham, Mont Albert, Mont Albert North, Nunawading, Surrey Hills, Vermont, and Vermont South.

Whittlesea

Includes: Bundoora, Donnybrook, Doreen, Epping, Kinglake West, Lalor, Mernda, Mill Park, South Morang, Thomastown, Whittlesea, and Yan Yean.

*We only deliver to the above suburbs in this council area.

Wyndham

Includes: Cocoroc, Eynesbury, Hoppers Crossing, Laverton, Laverton North, Little River, Mambourin, Mount Cottrell, Point Cook, Quandong, Tarneit, Truganina, Werribee, Werribee South, Williams Landing, and Wyndham Vale.

Yarra

Includes: Abbotsford, Alphington, Burnley, Carlton North, Clifton Hill, Collingwood, Cremorne, Fairfield, Fitzroy, Fitzroy North, Princes Hill, and Richmond.

Yarra Ranges*

Includes: Belgrave, Belgrave Heights, Belgrave South, Chirnside Park, Ferny Creek, Gruyere, Kallista, Kalorama, Kilsyth, Lilydale, Lysterfield, Montrose, Mooroolbark, Mount Dandenong, Mount Evelyn, Narre Warren East, Sassafras, Tecoma, Upper Ferntree Gully, Upwey, Wandin East, Wandin North, Wonga Park, Yarra Glen, and Yering.

*We only deliver to the above suburbs in this council area.

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FREPA-certified free-range chicken

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Sustainably sourced from local producers

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What makes free-range chicken thighs so good?

The chicken thigh is taken from the upper portion of the bird’s leg, whereas the chicken drumstick is the lower portion. The meat from both cuts is dark meat, which refers to the brownish tinge to the muscles. This is because the legs contain the most thoroughly exercised muscles, and so they’re packed with tendons, fat and myoglobin, the protein that carries oxygen to muscles. So the red liquid you may see on a cut of chicken thigh isn’t blood — that’s simply the myoglobin in the muscles.

We don’t mean to get too deep into poultry biology; suffice to say that this muscle composition makes the chicken thigh so tender and juicy when cooked. Our FREPA-accredited free-range chickens spend their days running around open paddocks like, dare we say it, headless chickens. They get all the exercise they could want. That’s why we advocate for ethical farming — it’s better for the chooks and our customers.

  • Chicken thigh is presented with the bone in and skin on. Our thick free-range chicken thigh cuts are amongst our most popular offerings, for good reason.
  • Honey soy chicken Maryland steaks are offered with bone and skin removed. Approximately 200g each, these steaks are favourites at backyard barbeques and can be oven-baked for a quick and easy meal. Contains soy.
  • Soy garlic chicken Maryland steaks are dressed in a simple marinade and presented boneless with the skin off. Another time-saving favourite, these steaks are approximately 200g each. Contains soy and gluten.
  • Chicken mini roasts are boneless thighs stuffed with either spinach, fetta and dill, or basic and pesto. We offer 3 thighs per serving, making this a quick yet delicious household meal.
  • Chicken drumettes marinated in herbs, garlic and chilli make an absolutely gorgeous snack for crowds. With 9 pieces per order, they’re good for a midnight snack for two, too. 
  • Chicken drumsticks are thick, juicy cuts of meat — there’s a reason these are always the first pieces to be picked out of a dish. 6 pieces per tray, and all free-range, of course.
  • Chicken mini roasts are boneless chicken thighs, rolled up and stuffed with spinach, fetta and dill. Simply slide them into the oven and you’ve got an easy meal with no clean-up needed.
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Frequently asked questions

How do you know you’ve cooked chicken drumsticks all the way through?

The best way to ensure your chicken is properly cooked is to check its internal temperature. For that, we strongly recommend you invest in a meat thermometer. Chicken should have an internal temperature of 75°C at minimum to be considered safe.

There are ways to check your chicken’s cooked through without a thermometer. If you don’t have a thermometer, grab a knife or skewer. Pierce the thickest part of the chicken: if the liquid that emerges from the cut is clear, it’s good to eat. If it’s pink, it needs to cook for longer.

What side dishes pair well with honey soy chicken maryland?

We recommend choosing side dishes that will complement the sweetness of the honey soy marinade. Consider:

  • Steamed vegetables with ginger
  • Sesame seed slaw with crunchy noodles
  • Garlic bread
  • Oven-roasted rosemary potatoes
  • Butternut squash with mustard seeds

How is Peter Bouchier’s chicken sustainably sourced?

We have partnered with leading poulterers around Victoria and New South Wales. Each of our partners are FREPA accredited. That accreditation means that their poultry is raised in freedom and comfort, and each chicken is regularly assessed for its health and wellbeing.

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