The Best Bakeries in Sydney for All of Your Favourite Treats

Known for providing endless comfort whenever you need it, a good bakery will never let you down. Sad? Have a donut. Busy? Pick up pie. Having the best day of your life? Why not celebrate with cake? And sometimes it's just about an everyday ritual. Somewhere you can pick up a fresh loaf of sourdough and your morning brew. Either way, a trip to the bakery is always a delight. 

To satisfy your/our addiction, here’s our list of the best bakeries in Sydney that really should be on your radar. Thank us later.

Malika Bakehouse

Malika Bakehouse specialise in Turkish pastries. Expect a counter adorned with freshly made pastries, including unique baklava flavours like chocolate and Lotus Biscoff, alongside corek, pogaca, handmade gözleme, tahini and walnut scrolls and soft Turkish bagels. Everything here tastes as good as it sounds. 

Surry Hills & Botany 

Frenchies Bakery & Pâtisserie

Frenchies Bakery and Pâtisserie offer a range of French viennoiseries that rotate regularly. Flaky, buttery croissants, pain suisse and delectable seasonal pâtisseries adorn the shelves alongside pies, quiches and fresh baguettes. Swing by for your daily bread - you'll find everything from long-fermented Khorasan to single and double baguettes - or for a well-deserved treat. Got a special occasion coming up? Pop in an order for millefeuille, croquembouche or a pavlova! 

The Cannery, 4/61-71 Mentmore Avenue, Rosebery

A.P Bakery

While the A.P name stands for ‘all purpose’, there is nothing standard about the soft, flaky, and perfectly golden morsels that come out of the oven here. Choose between sweet and savoury treats such as dark chocolate croissants, potato hash, a fig, olive oil and ricotta Danish or their signature egg bun. Complete with its own in-house American stone mill, the focus here is on the grain, which is milled daily and sourced from sustainable local growers. The result? Moreish makings in the form of crispy country loaves, fermented potato ciabattas and dense deli ryes.

Locations across Sydney 

We Are Flour (Image Credit: Steven Woodburn) 

We Are Flour 

Wherever you are in Sydney, We Are Flour is worth the drive. Nestled amongst suburban Caringbah South, this bakery and dough room churns out fresh goodies on the daily. The light-filled space boasts some seriously lush minimalist interiors whilst the sunny pavement is the perfect place to sip on top-notch coffee and sprinkle yourself in pastry crumbs. Don't leave without a piping hot cinnamon scroll from the tray in the window. 

277 Willarong Road, Caringbah South 

Black Star Pastry 

Home of the world's most Instagrammed cake, bakery institution Black Star Pastry continues to deliver new and exciting flavours on the regular. The kimcheese toastie and mango yuzu cake are particular favourites of ours. 

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Fabbrica Bread Shop 

If there is anyone we trust with our daily bread, it's going to be our favourite pasta store. Fabbrica Bread Shop offer hot coffee, flaky croissants, pain au chocolat, focaccia and metre-long pizza alongside their ever-popular pasta packs. They are also slinging one-off bakes from fairy bread croissant pudding brûléed, topped with maple syrup and sprinkles, to white chocolate and almond frangipane scrolls. Get in early as they're only open until they sell out - and they sure do! 

733 Darling Street, Rozelle 

Rollers Bakehouse

Manly-based bakery Rollers is an Insta-worthy dream: think millennial pink, succulents aplenty and a cosy courtyard out back. Beyond its Cali-cool vibes, baker James Sideris does not mess around when it comes to rolling out experimental (and at times insane) flavour combos of their deliciously flaky croissants. You could play it safe with a classic cinnamon roll or dive in headfirst with the likes of whipped parmesan and pickle or jamon, manchego cheese & pear. Either way, you’re going to want to wear your stretchy pants for this one.

19 Rialto Lane, Manly

Flour and Stone

Packing an impressive amount of flair and flavour for such a petite cafe, Flour and Stone is your patisserie pitstop in Woolloomooloo. Sitting behind Cook + Phillip Park, they have made it way too easy to grab a sweet treat on your travels. Coffee Alchemy is the bean of choice, and the menu is a mingling of timeless favourites (lamingtons, brownies and scones with jam and cream) and modern pastries (beetroot and seed cake, leek and gruyere tart, and pumpkin and goats curd Danish).

43 Riley Street, Woolloomooloo

Humble Bakery

Breathing new life into Australia’s most beloved childhood treat, Humble Bakery’s famed finger buns are arguably the best in town. Every bit as decadent as you remember, it’s all about that cream cheese icing that is generously piped atop a buttered fruit bun.

From the crew that gave us Porteño (Elvis Abrahanowicz, Ben Milgate, and Joseph Valore), creative turns result in devilish delights like banana custard and dulce de leche doughnuts – a nod to the bakery’s South American roots. While classic sourdough and baguettes are a given, savoury options also include the likes of porchetta Cubano rolls, wagyu beef empanadas, savoury meat pies and veggie-topped focaccias.

Surry Hills, Quay Quarter Lanes, Newtown 

Breadfern

A shrine to all things bread, Breadfern is run by the team behind Tapeo, Redfern’s beloved gluten-free bakery. Breadfern’s products though are quite the opposite. Pies, pastries, and five types of sourdough bread are on the menu at this carb-loaded cafe. Everything is made fresh daily, from their flavour-packed olive and fruit loaves, flaky croissants, scrumptious tarts, savoury pies and pizza slices.

306-308 Chalmers Street, Redfern

Lode Pies

Lode are pastry people and they do it better than most. Keeping it simple with a tight yet tasty assortment of sweets and savouries, everything is made in-house, from the creams and ganache to the jams and preserves. This up-scale viennoiserie does novel takes on all your favourite baked goods. Their showstopping Crown 487 cronut with white chocolate and raspberry glaze, pistachio and rose catapulted them to sugary stardom, and they’ve followed up with lust-worthy pastry mashups ever since. 

Locations across Sydney 

Banksia Bakehouse

Inspired by native Australian flora, the aptly named Banksia Bakehouse entices customers with its fine layered pastries, impossibly realistic cake renditions, and all the other creative confections that surface from its bustling open kitchen. Where else would you find a Biscoff cheesecake swirl sandwiched between a Vegemite and cheese croissant and truffle-infused shakshuka Danish?

Grosvenor Place, 225 George Street

Sweet Belem Cake Boutique

The Lisbon suburb after which this darling patisserie is named is famous for one thing, custard tarts. They’re known as pastéis de nata in their native tongue, but to Sydneysiders, they’re the lip-smacking flaky-pastry-gooey-custard tarts we can’t get enough of. Served piping hot from the oven and with a dusting of cinnamon, one bite of Sweet Belem’s Portuguese tarts and you’ll be begging for more. Portuguese lamingtons, palmiers and donuts are also on the menu.  

35B New Canterbury Road, Petersham

The Grumpy Baker

For fresh-out-of-the-oven sourdough, The Grumpy Baker is up before the crack of dawn baking, and they don't stop throughout the day. Their pies and sausage rolls sell out fast, and their breakfast and lunch menu unsurprisingly has an emphasis on their sourdough bread (their specialty shakshuka is a must-try).

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Sonoma

Baking some of the best sourdough loaves around. Sonoma is a family-run empire, and they have been baking and delivering delicious, crusty breads to cafes and restaurants across Sydney since 2001. Branching out to pastries, biscuits, tarts, mueslis, and their own chain of cafes, the Sonoma name is synonymous with wholesome and delectable sweet and savoury treats.

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Oregano Bakery

Sydneysiders are travelling from all over the city to get a taste of Oregano Bakery’s cinnamon scrolls. An authentic masterpiece, cafes across the city over clambering to stock scrolls with the Oregano Bakery stamp. This Lebanese bakery also serves savoury wraps and Lebanese sweets, so take it from us, your visit will be well-rewarded.

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Berkelo

Another contender for the best sourdough in Sydney, Berkelo serves up mouth-watering sourdough with their house-churned butter and heirloom honey from their hole-in-the-wall cafe. Their menu is wholesome and honest – no refined sugars, artificial sweeteners, bleached or commercial flours. Sourdough aside, their crowd-pleasers are the almond croissant and Berkelo choux.

Brookvale, Manly and Mosman

Bourke Street Bakery

We couldn’t run off a list of Sydney’s best bakeries and not include the much-loved Bourke Street Bakery. A Sydney institution, Bourke Street Bakery serves up the bready decadence and sweet treats we didn’t know we needed. The perfect place to indulge your sweet tooth or satisfy those carb cravings. Order the hazelnut and raisin sourdough or the rhubarb Danish, you won’t be disappointed.

Locations across Sydney 

Loving our pick of the best bakeries in Sydney and looking for more baked delicacies? Check out our article on the best dessert delivery services for a sweet treat delivered to your door, and the Sydney-based donut shops that have all your sugar needs covered.