Peter Karpouzis Olympic Deli and family have operated this s...
Peter Karpouzis Olympic Deli Peter Karpouzis and family have operated this store in the middle of Bankstown City Plaza and specialise in smoked and preserved meats that are nearly all made on site. The deli was established in 1956 and named Olympic Deli after the Olympic Games that happened in Melbourne that year. Peter describes Bankstown then as a bustling shopping centre with a strong European influence, Italian, Polish, German, Greek, Yugoslav. Peter came from a family of butchers on a small Greek island. After 10 years of running the deli he integrated a butcher into the shop and he hand picks the meat himself from all over NSW and has about 30 different sausages for sale. “ Everyone around here are good people, good working people, no one does any damage to any one. If you don’t do bad to anyone they don’t do anything bad to you. We look after each other. Bankstown is special because it brings people from everywhere to come here.” The deli is full of good, old fashioned, quality products. Greek olives, halva, smoked pork, and tubs of marinated vegetables and pickled fish, all make up the deli counter of this longtime family operated business. Recent recipients of a food lifetime achievement award, Peter puts it down to the quality of his products that keeps his customers coming back. One devoted customer said: “The olives here are off the hook, easily the best in the west”.
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