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Bakeries

Blueberry tart, with baked cheesecake, blueberry jam, vanilla cream and blueberries.

Seven exciting new bakeries to spend your dough on (plus, an inner west favourite returns)

From wine bar bakeries, to fine-dining pastries, these are the next wave of bougie bakeries in Sydney.

  • Bianca Hrovat
Mandarin and macadamia croissants, custard tarts, pandan coconut brioche and Vegemite avocado and chilli scrolls, at Shadow Baking.

What happens when three fine-dining chefs open a bakery in Darlinghurst?

Prepare for pastries unlike any you’ve seen before – Reuben pretzel croissant sandwiches, anyone?

  • Bianca Hrovat
A new twist on anchovy toasts.

The snack Melbourne restaurants are obsessed with just got even better at this new city bakery-restaurant

The team behind Aru and Sunda have opened a “very Melbourne” all-day venue (and soon you can swing by the bakery after work for still-warm sourdough).

  • Dani Valent
The husband and wife team behind Boston Doughnuts, Ahmed Taha and Marwa Yassine.

Worth a 12-hour drive: Venture west to discover Sydney’s best doughnuts

The suburban doughnut shops creating a craze for the sugar-glazed. PLUS: We round-up Sydney’s top 10 dough-based treats.

  • Bianca Hrovat
Babajan

A beloved Middle Eastern bakery-cafe has closed its Carlton North and Melbourne outlets

Tough economic conditions proved the final straw for Babajan, famous for its boreks, sucuk-stuffed pide and Persian love cake.

  • Dani Valent
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The Reuben sandwich at Ruben’s Deli, Armadale.

Is this Melbourne’s best Reuben sandwich? Ruben’s Deli boosts Armadale’s growing food strip

A New York-style deli with a former hatted chef has added further lustre to a booming southside eat street.

  • Dani Valent
Corner Deli by Lox in a Box takes over the disused Cornersmith site on Illawarra Rd.

Sydney’s first bagel high tea has landed at a Marrickville location you probably already love

Say hello to Lox in a Box’s new Corner Deli, brimming with bagels, babka French toast, salt beef sandwiches and more Jewish-inspired delights.

  • Bianca Hrovat
Good Food’s Roslyn Grundy with her award.

Good Food editor honoured at Melbourne Food and Wine Festival’s Legends awards

Roslyn Grundy’s prolific contribution to food journalism was recognised alongside other high achievers at the prestigious event.

  • Emma Breheny
Babka founder Sasha Lewis has handed over the keys.

Beloved Fitzroy bakery cafe Babka changes hands for the first time in 30 years

Founder Sasha Lewis has sold to a hospitality veteran who promises not to change the Melbourne institution.

  • Dani Valent
The Rollers Bakehouse sausage roll.

Let the good times roll: Where to find 10 of Sydney’s best sausage rolls

From curried kangaroo filling to buttery croissant shells, these flavour-packed sausage rolls will save you from sad servo alternatives.

  • Bianca Hrovat