the Hill Street story

once upon a time there was a bricklayer, a lawyer, and a spray painter...

It's an unlikely trio to be found running a gourmet grocery store. Hill Street is owned and run by brothers Marco, Nick and Nektarios Nikitaras and their families. But their passion for fresh produce and delicious food, and a flair for business, has seen Hill Street become one of Tasmania’s leading food retailers with stores in West Hobart, New Town and Lauderdale.

Our flagship store is at Hill Street in West Hobart.  It has been connected to our family for the best part of 40 years, initially run by Dianna Nikitaras's parents  John and Irene Varsimidis as a mixed business and takeaway.  When Marco, then a bricklayer, married Dianna in 1994, the shop came with her and Marco ran the store as "Rite-Way West Hobart". It soon gained a reputation as the best little corner shop in Hobart.

A major renovation and re-branding in 2001 saw the birth of Hill Street Grocer as it looks today, when Nick, Marco's younger brother, and his wife Natalia, both lawyers working in Melbourne at the time, sought a 'tree-change' and a return to family in Tasmania.

Marco and Nick's youngest brother, Nektarios, formerly a spray-painter, and his wife Georgina, joined the group in 2009 to run the Lauderdale store, after running their own very successful grocery store at Dodges Ferry, and a takeaway store in Springfield.  Our newest store is in New Town, with Nick at the helm.

Plans are underway for an exciting move in 2012 to a new site in West Hobart, on the corner of Pine and Hill Streets, where we will build a larger flagship store. Our former Hill Street store will become a bakery and coffee shop.

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