Cowaramup

From Busselton
about 35 min by car
From Margaret River
about 10 min by car
Makers based here
7
With a stall or shop here
1

Drive times from the OSRM router, rounded to 5 minutes. Road data © OpenStreetMap contributors.

For things to buy in Cowaramup, look first along Bussell Highway. Seven Seas Tea blends loose-leaf by hand in small batches and sells it from the same address. Temper Temper is two chocolatiers, Roz and Georgia, who hand-temper their bars. Flavours run from grapefruit and fennel to Fairy Bread, which needs no explaining to anyone raised on Australian birthday parties.

On Tom Cullity Drive, Bettenays makes nougat on site behind a window, so you can watch the kitchen at work, and there are dozens of flavours, with free nougat samples to help you choose. Fine Food of Margaret River, a farmers market regular since 2001, has a kitchen shop in town with its sweet chilli sauce next to other South West brands. Near Margaret River, on Armstrong Road at Cowaramup, Olio Bello has a tasting room on the olive farm it has harvested since 1998.

Gracetown, on Cowaramup Bay, is about ten minutes towards the coast if you want the sea with your shopping. Our Busselton to Margaret River day trip stops here.

Seven makers based here, one more with a stall or shop in town, 27 products, six categories and nine guides.

See Cowaramup on the mapQuestions

What can I buy in Cowaramup?

Chocolate, coffee, olive oil, pantry, soap and tea, from 8 makers: 7 based in Cowaramup and 1 with a stall or shop in town. All of them sell in person here.

Where to buy in Cowaramup

Each page tells their story and links straight to their own shop.

Visit in Cowaramup 8 makers

Shops, tasting rooms, farm gates and market stalls. Days change, so check the maker's own site before you go.

  • Bettenays

    Tasting roomPantry

    Nougat made on site at a family property in Cowaramup, in 180g bars across dozens of flavours, with a kitchen visitors can watch at work.

    Watch it made: A viewing window onto the nougat kitchen at the Cowaramup shop.

  • Candy Cow

    ShopPantry

    A Cowaramup sweet shop that makes honeycrunch with WA honey in front of visitors, and sells its own fudge in dozens of flavours.

    Watch it made: Honeycrunch made in the shop, in front of visitors.

  • Fine Food of Margaret River

    ShopPantry

    A Cowaramup maker of sweet chilli sauce, dukkah and vinegar, founded by Italian-born Romano Rotelli and at the farmers market since 2001.

  • Olio Bello

    Tasting roomFrom Margaret RiverOlive oil, Pantry, Soap

    A Margaret River olive farm harvesting since 1998, with single-variety and flavoured extra virgin olive oils, a pantry range and its own skincare.

  • Record Coffee Roasters

    Tasting roomCoffee

    A Cowaramup roastery with a tasting room, roasting a steady Side A range and rotating Side B single origins, packed in recyclable aluminium cans.

  • Seven Seas Tea

    ShopTea

    A Cowaramup tea shop hand-blending loose-leaf black, green, white, oolong, chai and herbal teas from around the world in small batches.

  • Temper Temper

    ShopChocolate

    Two chocolatiers, Roz and Georgia, make hand-tempered bars, coated fruit and nuts, and chocolate roughs, sold from shops in Cowaramup and Margaret River.

  • Two Cracks Coffee

    ShopCoffee

    A small-batch roastery and cafe on the main street of Cowaramup, roasting rotating single origins in house.

Where can I watch it being made in Cowaramup?

2 places in Cowaramup let you see the making:

  • Bettenays: A viewing window onto the nougat kitchen at the Cowaramup shop.
  • Candy Cow: Honeycrunch made in the shop, in front of visitors.

What's made here

No prices here, because we don't sell these. Tap a label for the story, or Visit to go straight to the maker's own shop.

In the journal

Guides that take you through Cowaramup or call in on its makers.

All guides

  • Christmas gifts made in the South West of WA

    Christmas gifts from small makers between Busselton and Pemberton, sorted by who they're for.

  • Take the South West home with you

    The best gifts to bring home from the South West of WA are things made here: stone-ground chocolate, jarrah honey, local olive oil, loose-leaf tea, coffee roasted in Vasse and Margaret River, and soap made in Busselton.

  • The coast road south, in one good day

    Busselton to Margaret River is about 50 km and takes about 40 minutes by car on Bussell Highway.

Questions

What can you buy in Cowaramup?

Hand-blended loose-leaf tea from Seven Seas Tea, hand-tempered chocolate from Temper Temper, nougat from Bettenays and sweet chilli sauce from Fine Food of Margaret River. Olio Bello's olive farm and tasting room are at Cowaramup too.

Where can you watch nougat being made in Cowaramup?

At Bettenays on Tom Cullity Drive, where the nougat kitchen has a viewing window and free nougat samples. Check the maker's site before you go.

Is Cowaramup good on a rainy day?

Yes, most of it is indoors: the tea shop, Temper Temper's chocolate shop, and Mukau Giftware & Gallery, which has an upstairs gallery in the middle of town. Gabriel Chocolate's cafe at Metricup is a short drive north.

Nearby

Other towns with makers or guides, nearest first, as the crow flies.

Made Down South is an independent guide. We're not affiliated with or endorsed by the makers listed here unless their own page says so, and we don't sell their goods: prices and orders are on each maker's own site.