The Best Bakeries in Sydney
Supermarket bread is fine when you're in a pinch. But there are dozens of places in Sydney making quality sourdough and other varieties from scratch. Here's a list of our favourites, plus French and Italian patisseries, pie and cake shops, Portuguese tart specialists and other places where early mornings and hot ovens are a way of life.
Words by Dan Cunningham
Updated on 18 December 2025
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Baker Bleu
The cult Melbourne bakery brings its signature sourdough to Neil Perry’s Double Bay hospo corner. Come for breakfast bagels, stacked sangas and pastries paired with Mecca Coffee.
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Self Raised Bread Shoppe
Details are everything at this retro bakery in the city’s south. The team behind pizzeria My Mother’s Cousin are making sangas with cross-section charisma, fruit-filled danishes and sourdough worth lining up for.
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AP House
A Cali-inspired rooftop bakery from the teams behind Ester, Reuben Hills and Paramount House Hotel. Ascend for sourdough bread made with old-world wheat, hefty pies and pastries we can’t stop thinking about.
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Pantry Story
Opening to immediate queues, this is the permanent home for an online bakery made famous by its “brochi” – a brownie-mochi hybrid. It’s also serving pandan buns, brisket hand pies and “kimcheese” focaccia.
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Khanom House
Visit this cute corner site for exquisite Asian-influenced baked goods like doughnuts filled with pandan custard, where the sugar is purposely dialled back.
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Fabbrica Bread Shop
The Love, Tilly Devine team’s bakery has landed in the inner west with masala croissants and metre-long focaccias. You can grab the latter just like they do it in Rome: by the slice and loaded with cold-cuts.
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Loulou
Loulou’s boulangerie is a little slice of Parisian life. Pick up coffee and fresh baguettes all day long, as well as buttery croissants, Basque burnt cheesecakes and fougasse du jour.
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Goodwood Bakeshop
This tiny neighbourhood bakehouse is run by a couple who list some of Sydney’s best bakeries on their CVs. Get in early for crunchy croissants, rustic sourdough and seasonal-fruit danishes – they often sell out.
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Lune Croissanterie Rosebery
Kate Reid’s world-famous croissanterie has finally come to Sydney. Visit the bakery’s enormous flagship at Rosebery’s Engine Yards Precinct for croissants, kouign-amanns, danishes, morning buns and more.
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Rollers Bakehouse
The first thing you’ll spy at this no-rules bakery is a pile of pastries in the front window. They're not an accessory to your coffee – they're the main event. Expect anything from charcoal dough to spanakopita filling in your croissant.
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Brickfields
If you spot a seeded ciabatta roll on a menu in Sydney, chances are it came from Brickfields. One of the city's OG artisan bakeries, this compact corner is where to go for killer sourdough, oozy mushroom melts and coffee by Mecca.
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Lode Pies and Pastries
A polished pastry shop that puts a fine-dining twist on classic bakery items. Think Wagyu and mushroom pies, and yuzu curd croissants. The star item – the Crown on 487 – is so labour-intensive only 15 are made each day.
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Baking 101
A pint-sized bakery devoted to the classics – without a cronut, crookie or cruffin in sight.
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Shadow Baking
Three Messina chefs have gone all-out with their bakery debut. It’s where French and very nostalgic Aussie influences collide in treats like a Vegemite and avocado scroll, and a fancy take on an old-school custard tart.
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Martha's
One of Sydney’s smallest suburbs is home to a smart bakery-cafe with Middle Eastern-inspired viennoiseries and signature drinks.
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Flour and Stone Annexe
Nadine Ingram is one of the city’s master bakers, and this compact spot is where all her magic happens. Head here for gorgeous cakes, salads and sandwiches to take away. For baking supplies, cookbooks and more, hit the pantry a couple of doors up.
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Moon Phase
The elite croissants at this north shore bakery take five days to make. The owner-baker is also showing off her heritage with Korean-inspired danishes, which you can pair with some of the area’s best coffee.
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Tuga Pastries
If you’re looking for the city’s supreme Portuguese tart, it comes from this tiny, counter-only bakery. It’s also where you’ll find beautiful cakes, croissants and cream-filled doughnuts. Ditto at Tuga’s Alexandria HQ.
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Flour Shop
Flour Shop is in the business of doing three things exceptionally well: bread, pastries and coffee. It meets the brief with outstanding sourdough, inventive croissants and brews by Single O.
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Pioik Bakery
Pioik means “the bread” in ancient Egyptian, a nod to its owner’s heritage. There’s fine-dining flair in every two-kilo Epooro loaf; ditto the croissants and seasonal creations. A heritage terrace in Pyrmont is where it all goes down.
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Humble Bakery
Whether they’re baking bread or butchering steaks, the Porteno team does not muck around. Its humble little bakery nearly broke the internet with a gorgeous finger bun. But it’s no slouch in the sandwich department either.
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Iggy’s Bread
Not only is Iggy’s where fine-dining restaurants get their bread, it’s also a proving ground for the city’s top baking talent. Sourdough, baguettes, bagels – you name it. The people have been lining up for it for years.
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Lucien Baked Goods
The Circa Espresso team leaves nothing on the lamination bench at this light-filled bakery. A cornucopia of treats is baked on-site each day, including croissants and banoffee choux. There's also a brunch menu packed with Middle Eastern flavours.
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Staple Bread & Necessities Seaforth
A sourdough standard-setter, now with multiple locations on the northern beaches. Hit this hole-in-the-wall for a stellar loaf, then hang around for a chocolate croissant or a “Balgowlah bun” made with croissant off-cuts.
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Fiore Bread
A compact terrazzo bakery modelled on an Italian alimentari, where you can grab everyday staples like bread and condiments for the pantry. But do you need a focaccia sandwich filled with mortadella every day? Of course you do.
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Berkelo
This tiny, garage-like spot on the beaches is another contender for the title of Sydney’s best sourdough bread. A thick slice of the stuff smeared with house-churned butter and local honey is pure magic.
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The Tart Sisters
The Tart Sisters is Asfield’s sweetest secret. The no-frills bakery has been a neighbourhood favourite for decades, courtesy of its golden galettes, cinnamon scrolls and old-school charm.
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Madame & Yves
The pastry chef here has cooked for the Obamas and the Clintons, in the kitchens of Est and Kisume, and won multiple awards at the World Pastry Cup.
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Cherry Moon
There’s a lot going on at Cherry Moon – not least of all a woodfired oven belting out fig-leaf sourdough, crunchy focaccia and Portuguese tarts. This mottled roadside spot also has you covered with housemade pantry staples and coffee, of course.
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Penny Fours
Almond-and-raspberry croissants by an ex-Tetsuya chef? Count us in. But if you’re all about the savoury stuff, you’ll have a tough time choosing between ham and provolone and the four-cheese danish with truffle oil.
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Home Croissanterie
Starting out as a popular lockdown bakery, Home is the work of a self-taught pastry chef who’s also done stints at Noma and Quay. Everything from classic to crème brûlée-topped croissants are possibilities here.
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Banksia Bakehouse
A one-stop shop for celebration cakes, savoury lunch-time pastries and croissants made with a recipe that took 15 months to perfect. From the street, you can watch the team prepare all of the above inside the glass-encased kitchen.
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Sebastien Sans Gluten
A Parisian-born, French-trained baker is behind this petite cafe and bakery. He’s applying his skills to the world of gluten-free pastry, with meat pies, chocolate eclairs, baguettes and Paris-Brest, plus a croissant refined over six months.
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Crescent Croissanterie
Pastry chef Elly Kim’s little takeaway spot is a heavy hitter in Sydney’s booming croissanterie scene. The plain croissant is outstanding, but we love the “dirty” chocolate number. Grab one of each and a yuzu-glazed palmier before the trio sells out.
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Bourke Street Bakery
These days Bourke Street Bakery has outposts by the baker’s dozen. But this much-loved corner site is where it all started. Tip-top sourdough, award-winning pies and value-packed sandwiches are the main attractions.
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The Grumpy Baker
Like a proving loaf, the Grumpy Baker empire continues to expand. That means a Middle Eastern brekkie or a slab of olive-studded sourdough is never far away. Grumpy’s Moroccan-lamb pies deserve a special shout-out.
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Sweet Belem
Sweet Belem’s Portuguese tarts are the real deal. Once you bite into the flaky outer shell to the warm custard inside, you’ll understand why people travel to this gem in Petersham’s Little Portugal.
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Buttercrumbs Croissant
Whether you visit the original Buttercrumbs in Five Dock or the Ultimo sequel, some tough choices lie ahead. Plain or almond? Strawberry and Nutella or the monthly special? There are also milkshakes, iced tea smoothies and coffee on the cards.
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Sonoma Bakery
It's more than likely you will have eaten – or at least heard of – Sonoma. Its sourdough is the loaf of choice for many cafes, delis and providores across Sydney. We’ve usually got one on the go, too.
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Threefold Pastry
A sleek, takeaway-only patisserie specialising in eye-catching croissants. It’s also got lunch covered with savoury pastries and pies, ready-made Turkish sandwiches and wraps, and specialty coffee.
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Wholegreen Bakery
Founded by a qualified nutritionist, Wholegreen has amassed a cult following in Sydney and overseas for its coeliac-friendly bread, pastries and pies. If you’re looking for the gold standard in gluten-free baking, look no further.
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