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Four Court is a covered trading yard in South Melbourne, given over to food, coffee and the people who make it.
56 Boundary Street
The site is an off-street car park with a canopy over it and direct vehicle access from Boundary Street — which turns out to be exactly what a food truck needs and almost never gets. Instead of leaving it to the commuters, we opened it up to operators.
Bays are allocated one to an operator, so what you’re buying is made by the person who built the business. The line-up is curated rather than first-in-best-dressed: we keep the offer varied so there aren’t three trucks selling the same thing on the same night.
Being under cover changes what the place can be. A yard that only works in good weather is a summer business. This one trades through July, which means operators can commit to regular days and you can plan a Wednesday lunch around it.
Four Court is operated by Lennox Holdings Pty Ltd.
The site
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address
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56 Boundary Street |
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cover
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Canopy over the trading yard |
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access
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Vehicle entry direct from Boundary Street |
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setting
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Western edge of the Montague precinct, Fishermans Bend |
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Council
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City of Port Phillip |
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general manager
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Jon Ford |
A boundary worth the name
Boundary Street runs about a kilometre north-west to south-east, and it has always been a line on a map. It divided the old Borough of Port Melbourne from the Montague end of South Melbourne back when that difference mattered, and it still separates two very different kinds of city.
On the north-east side is Montague, one of five precincts in the Fishermans Bend Urban Renewal Area — 480 hectares, the largest project of its kind in Australia, planned to hold around 80,000 residents and up to 80,000 jobs by 2050.
Warehouses and panel shops are giving way to apartment buildings and offices, and the precinct has thousands more dwellings still to come.
On the south-west side is Port Melbourne — low-rise, established, largely residential, running down through Ross Street and Nott Street to the Bay Street shops.
Four Court sits on the seam. That’s the whole point of the site: a workday trade from one side, an evening and weekend trade from the other, and a canopy over the top so neither depends on the forecast.
Turn up and eat
no bookings
The yard is walk-up. Come when you’re hungry.
Pay the operator
Every truck takes its own payment. Card and mobile are standard.
Check the night
The line-up rotates, so check the programme before you head over.
Rain doesn’t matter
Trucks and seating are both under the canopy.
Come when you’re hungry
No bookings, no queueing in the weather, and somewhere to park. Check what’s trading and head over.