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Pantry Story, Stanmore/Annandale

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336 Parramatta Road, Stanmore, New South Wales 2048
instagram.com/pantrystory_sydney
Stall at: Market Studio, 131 Booth St, Annandale, New South Wales 2038
airrmade.com/market-studio

On a warm early summer Sunday just before Christmas, Mrs Snot Block & Roll suggested we trek across the harbour to a small hand-made ceramics market that she had run across. Market Studio is a small building in the heart of the sinner city suburb of Annandale, full of ceramics by a handful of different artists, spilling out into stalls on the adjacent footpath.

Market Studio, Annandale

Also there were a coffee stall, a place selling cakes, and another selling focaccias and hot snacks. The latter turned out to be a stall run by a place called Pantry Story, with its main premises a suburb away in Stanmore. It’s an Asian-inspired bakery, with a dizzying array of Asian fusion pastries and breads. And here at Market Studio today they had a pie warmer with a selection of treats: beef rendang pie, green curry pork sausage rolls, and prawn and chicken sausage rolls!

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Flour Shop, Turramurra

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16 Princes St, Turramurra, New South Wales 2074
cookaborough.com/flour-shop/menus

A few weeks ago we had occasion to drop someone off near Turramurra around lunch time. A perfect opportunity to find a new bakery and try it out! A bit of searching located the cleverly named Flour Shop, nestled in a tiny cluster of local shops in a residential area.

Flour Shop, Turramurra

Entering showed mostly racks of delicious looking bread, including one (currently empty) space allocated for loaves declared to be SUPER SEEDY. There were also a small number of other treats such as chocolate cherry cookies and ginger nuts, and a savoury croissant filled with pastrami, pickles, and cheese.

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Berkelo, Mosman

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2/577 Military Road, Mosman, New South Wales 2088
berkelo.com.au

I did a sweep of Internet searches looking for interesting bakeries I hadn’t been to yet, and found Berkelo, which has four locations in Sydney. I headed over to the one at Mosman to check it out.

Berkelo, Mosman

It’s not a big place, and they specialise in bread loaves and sandwiches ready to eat, but they also have croissants and a few sweets and savouries. The savouries included, when I visited, a choice of chicken or pumpkin pies, various quiches, a kale and feta roll, and a sausage roll.

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Biga Artisan Bakery, East Lindfield

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9 Hughes Pl, East Lindfield

It’s been a long time between vanilla slices, due to a combination of the COVID pandemic, and me being busy with new work. But today I took a short drive with Mrs Snot Block & Roll and Canine Snot Block & Roll for some afternoon tea to a new bakery that we hadn’t visited before.

Biga Artisan Bakery

I was wondering if they would have some vanilla slices, and lo! They did!

Biga Artisan Bakery

It’s an interesting bakery, with a small counter displaying just a few sweet treats, with a view behind to the working area with racks and machinery for baking bread. There didn’t appear to be a lot of bread available, probably because it was getting close to closing time. But they did have an interesting Lego version of the very shop I was standing in on the counter.

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Cornucopia Bakery, Naremburn

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Shop 2/296-298 Willoughby Rd, Naremburn
facebook.com/CornucopiaBakerySydney

One of the earliest reviews I did on this blog was Delicia in Naremburn. As it’s within a (solid) walking distance from home, it was a bakery that I visited fairly frequently. Unfortunately, when I went there one time a year or two ago, I discovered that it had closed down. This left a fairly big hole in the local area, since the closure of St Malo a bit earlier wiped out the best bakery in the region.

The vacated Delicia premises remained empty for many months, until recently I took a walk that led me past… and I saw that it was now occupied. And by a new bakery!

Cornucopia Bakery, Naremburn

The fitout has changed, with the coffee machine on the left, and a single straight counter instead of the L-shaped one that Delicia had. They have a nicer looking selection of pies (although Delicia’s sausage rolls were good, their pies were average):

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High Street Bakery, Northbridge

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142 Sailors Bay Rd, Northbridge, New South Wales

Just a day after making a special expedition to Newtown for Miss Lilly’s, I had an appointment for my first COVID vaccination in the suburb of Northbridge. Since it was at lunch time, I took the opportunity to stroll around the Northbridge shops after my 15-minute safety rest, and found the High Street Bakery.

High Street Bakery

This is a bog standard suburban high street bakery, with the usual array of freshly baked loaves, a selection of small cakes and tarts and other sweets, and a pie warmer counter full of pies and sausage rolls.

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Miss Lilly’s, Newtown

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571 King St, Newtown, NSW
misslillys.com.au

I received a recommendation recently via the subreddit /r/sydney saying that I had to try the sausage rolls at Miss Lilly’s in Newtown. I must admit that I haven’t tried any places in Newtown apart from The Pie Tin, because it’s so good there and I am in the area seldom enough that all I ever want to do is go back there. But, if someone is going to go out of their way to specifically recommend an establishment to me, I have to try it!

I made a special expedition over to Newtown just for this. I messed up a bit reading Google Maps and ended up at the wrong end of Newtown, wondering why I couldn’t find it. Consulting my phone, I realised my error, and walked along the entire eclectic university-student-filled shopping strip to the far end. This was fortunate as it helped build an appetite!

Miss Lilly's Bakery Cafe

I found Miss Lilly’s behind a humble shopfront on busy King Street. It bills itself as a “bakery cafe”, but there isn’t much room inside for the two tables, and there are two tables out on the footpath. The unassuming counter contains a small selection of slightly rustic, home-made style cakes, tarts, and slices. This is not a high-end patisserie – it looks like a typical small business cafe that someone just started to make a living. Unfortunately there isn’t a vanilla slice, but then that would have been a bonus since I really came here for the sausage rolls.

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K’pané Artisan Bakery, Coffs Harbour

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Jetty Village Shopping Centre, 361 Harbour Drive, Coffs Harbour NSW 2450
www.facebook.com/kpaneartisanbakery

Continuing my vacation trip, I got as far north as Coffs Harbour, on a day sojourn out of my accommodation in Port Macquarie. So I was here at lunch time, and keen to find something delicious to eat. A local pointed me towards the Jetty district of the city, where I found a small shopping centre, and K’pané Artisan Bakery. I neglected to take a photo of the exterior or interior, but it basically looked like a generic anonymous small shopping centre bakery, with nothing to distinguish it in any way.

Inside, the savoury menu featured some interesting pies, with a Penang pork tickling my fancy, as well as a pork and fennel sausage roll. There was alas no vanilla slice on offer, so I contented myself with the pie and sausage roll choice. I snuck a seat at a table belonging to the adjacent fish & chip shop and regarded my lunch.

Sausage roll: K'pané Artisan Bakery

The sausage roll (here displayed sitting atop the pie, as it was the only guaranteed clean surface elevated above the interior of the cardboard tray they came in) looks promising. It has a richly browned pastry crust, flaking into pieces as I manoeuvre it around for a photo, generously topped with poppy seeds. The pastry looks fairly thick, moist, and buttery. The end bits of the meat filling are crusty from baking, and display similarly generous amounts of shredded carrot. It looks enticing.

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San Antonio Sourdough, Balmain

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349 Darling St, Balmain, New South Wales

On a fine spring day Mrs Snot Block & Roll suggested we go on an expedition across the water to the Sydney suburb of Balmain. A convenient way to get there is to catch a ferry, so we made our way over the cool green waters of Sydney Harbour to the relevant wharf and walked up the steep hill to the main street, where an array of shops and food outlets awaited. Here, in search of sustenance we found San Antonio Sourdough.

San Antonio Sourdough, Balmain

Taking a look at the counter displays inside, the sweet treats looked extremely tempting, and they also had some pies and sausage rolls. I got a sausage roll and, because they had no vanilla slices, I opted for a pecan tart for afterwards.

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Golden Bakehouse, South Turramurra

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219C Kissing Point Road, South Turramurra, New South Wales
golden-bakehouse.business.site

It’s a warm late winter Sunday – the perfect opportunity to take Mrs and Canine Snot Block & Roll for a drive! Of course, I had to do some research to make sure there was a nice bakery awaiting at our destination. And for this trip I chose something that has been tantalising me for some time now. Whenever I do a Google search of Sydney for bakeries, popping up like a gleaming apparition with an astonishing 4.9 star average rating, is Golden Bakehouse at South Turramurra.

Golden Bakehouse, South Turramurra

It’s a strange thing. Despite the amazing Google rating, photos of the bakery look distinctly bland and average. This looks like your run-of-the-mill suburban bakery, dishing out good hot bread and banh mi rolls, but distinctly average patisserie goods. Something seems rotten in the State of Denmark here…

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