Whether you’re a purist who gravitates towards a perfect sourdough, prefer sweet treats like cinnamon scrolls and vanilla slices, or are seeking out a gluten-free fix, Sydney/Eora's bakeries have you covered for carb-based wants and needs.
These are the best bakeries in Sydney—check out Sydney's best gluten-free bakeries here, or head here for Sydney's best cake shops).
Brickfields
206 Cleveland Street, Chippendale and 54–56 Sydenham Road, Marrickville
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If you haven’t tried a Brickfields toastie, you haven’t lived. The bacon sandwich at this Sydney bakery is a perennial favourite featuring manchego, pickles, lemon aioli, and streaky bacon on a seeded ciabatta, but their bread alone is worth a visit, and the pastries, sweets, cakes, and flaky seasonal sweet and savoury tarts are mind-blowingly good.
Baker Bleu
2 Guilfoyle Avenue, Double Bay
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A Melbourne import tucked next to one of Sydney's best restaurants, Neil Perry's Margaret, Baker Bleu brings that quality to the bakery world, baking up sourdough bread and pastries worthy of a spot on any fine diner's table.
Loaves range from khorasan and dark rye creations to olive fougasse, country wheels, challah and crusty baguettes, sweet fixes can be found in the form of cinnamon twists, cookies, and sourdough pain au chocolat, and the pizza slices, bagels and sandwiches are perfect for grab-and-go lunches.
Fabbrica Bread Shop
733 Darling Street, Rozelle
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Beloved city pasta shop Fabbrica entered the bakery scene in 2023 as part of a new Maloney's Grocer in Rozelle. Fabbrica Bread Shop does sweet and savoury pastries, various styles of bread, and daily specials created by head baker Aniruddha Bhosekar.
The range includes croissants (including a must-try masala-filled creation), metre-long pizzas and focaccias, Basque cheesecakes, porchetta sandwiches and banoffee tarts, and bread crafted using a three-day, three-flour process with small NSW and Victorian wheat growers highlighted each month.
Rollers Bakehouse
19 Rialto Lane, Manly
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Rollers Bakehouse has an edgy, cool-kid feel to its design that matches its kooky croissant creations. Baker James Sideris focuses on boundary-pushing flavours at this Sydney bakery—think a truffle ham croissant that fuses truffle goat’s cheese with ham, comté and caramelised onion, or a Middle Eastern-inspired eggplant, hummus, zaatar, and jalapeno concoction.
Bourke Street Bakery
Various locations
Bourke Street Bakery has all but taken over Sydney corners, with shopfronts in 11 locations. Since 2004, the organic sourdough still stands up as some of the best in Sydney, with flavours such as hazelnut and raisin, soy and linseed, fig and cranberry, and potato and rosemary (AKA Mr. Potato Bread).
The sausage rolls filled with lamb and harissa or pork and fennel remain resolutely drool-worthy, and we recommend the ginger brûlée tart, lemon and ricotta slice, or pineapple and coconut danish for something sweet.
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Flour Shop
16 Princes Street, Turramurra
“Flour Shop came about in pretty unlikely circumstances”, says co-founder Anu Haran. What began as a friendship on a train in England has now blossomed into one of the North Shore's most friendly and welcoming locales.
Flour Shop is a Sydney bakery known for its filled Jerusalem bagels, savoury pain Suisse creations, cinnamon scrolls and generously filled pies.
A.P. Bakery
Various locations
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A.P. Bakery may be the most culinary-star-studded bakery to grace Sydney. Mat Lindsay (Ester, Poly), Russell Beard (Reuben Hills, Paramount Coffee Project), Dougal Muffet (Moonacres Kitchen in the Southern Highlands), and Ping Jin Ng (Paramount House Hotel) joined forces to bring us some of the best bread and treats in town, using locally grown wheat milled to their specifications.
The offering is slightly different in each location (like plated breaky dishes on the Paramount House rooftop, customisable pizza slices at the markets, and porchetta sandwiches in the CBD) but the Basque cheesecake, macadamia, honey and thyme twice-baked croissants, and Aleppo pepper and asiago scrolls are all worth waking up early for.
Penny Fours
485A Darling Street, Balmain
After a fire paused operations in mid 2023, Penny Fours bakery is back with the same sweet treats for which they’ve always been known and loved.
Run by a pastry chef who lists Tetsuya’s, Sepia and Iggy’s Bread among her past roles, Penny Fours nails a textbook croissant, crusty loaves of bread (with flavoured combos like olive and thyme to spice up your sandwiches), sweets like lemon meringues, salted macadamia tarts, and sticky brioche buns, and savouries like broccoli, bacon and cheese danishes.
Lode Pies & Pastries
487 Crown Street, Surry Hills and Rugby Place, Circular Quay
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Lode Pies & Pastries is a Sydney bakery with a cult following for its textbook-perfect goods by LuMi chef Frederico Zanellato and chef Lorenzo Librino. The art of the 'lamination' process reigns supreme here, so you can expect incredible layered treats with creams, ganache, and seasonal fruit, insane sausage rolls, and the iconic pork pithivier with a vent for pouring warm chicken gravy into.
Flour And Stone
53 Riley Street, Woolloomooloo
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Flour and Stone serves up the classics with aplomb—but fresh sourdough and croissants are not its only offerings.
This Sydney bakery's take on classic sweet treats like beetroot and seed cake or spelt carrot cake are must-tries or, if you’re more of a savoury-tooth then don’t miss out on the zucchini, chilli, and gruyere buns or the lamb, potato, and rosemary pies.
The Grumpy Baker
Various Locations
The Grumpy Baker has grown into an empire of 11 locations, eight of which are in Sydney. The Middle-Eastern-inspired bakery menu includes traditional shakshuka, Moroccan-spiced lamb pies, and an array of sandwiches made with thick slices of the bakery’s signature sourdough.
With over 10 varieties, the bread is baked without preservatives or additives; we recommend the roast garlic and olive loaf.
Loulou Boulangerie
61 Lavender Street, Milsons Point
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Attached to a classic French bistro and traiteur, Loulou is a butter-laden slice of the Gallic life on the North Shore. They bake four times a day from 7am to ensure everything's oven-fresh whenever you drop in, and the menu spans crusty baguettes, loaves, and croissants, with an expanded selection of treats on the weekend.
Iggy's
131 and 145 Macpherson Street, Bronte
Yugoslavian-born Igor Ivanovic’s now-famous bakery Iggy’s is all about the bread—and the bright and no-frills shop with queues for days will make you believe it.
This team takes things so seriously that bread is available from the OG location at number 53, and you'll have to head up to the Pastry Studio at number 145 to grab your roasted hazelnut croissants and sticky buns.
Shadow Baking
243 Victoria Street, Darlinghurst
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Beloved Sydney pop-up patisserie Shadow Baking—the brainchild of three Gelato Messina head chefs—now has a permanent bakery location, and consistently sells out just hours after doors open.
The trio craft creative and technical viennoiserie, with seasonal fruit-studded tarts, sweet and savoury danishes, and cult favourites like the pandan and coconut brioche are joined by classics like croissants and cinnamon scrolls, and creative combinations like custard tart danishes, avocado and Vegemite scrolls, and mandarin and macadamia twice-baked croissants.
Tuga Pastries
Shop 6/231 Clovelly Road, Clovelly and 10/112 McEvoy Street, Alexandria
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Tuga Pastries is proof that good things come in small packages. This teeny tiny, counter-only Sydney bakery specialises in handmade pastel de nata (Portuguese tarts). You'll also find pao de Deus (a coconut brioche), tart de feijao (almond and hazelnut tart), carrot and pineapple cakes, dulce de leche pockets, and loaded Portuguese-style doughnuts.
Cherry Moon
77 Nelson Street, Annandale
What can’t Cherry Moon General Store do? This wood-fired bakery and cafe is the creation of ex-Rockpool and Tetsuya's pastry chef Kimmy Gastmeier and former schoolteacher Aimee Graham.
At the heart of it all is a hand-built wood-fire oven named Apollonia and, if you go for the wood-fired sourdough or signature fig-leaf loaf, you won’t be disappointed. From burnt butter, choc chip, and sea salt cookies to doughnuts topped with glacé cherries, it also delivers on the sweets front.
Humble Bakery
50 Holt Street, Surry Hills and 16 Loftus Lane, Circular Quay
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Tucked down the slope of Holt St, right next to sister venue Porteño, Humble puts refreshing slants on the classics with treats like finger buns, jamon and cheese croissants and caramelised onion and chorizo snails.
The sourdough starter, developed by chef Francois Mignard is not too sour and produces a light crust instead of the teeth-breaking variety sometimes associated with toasted sourdough.
Pioik Bakery
176-178 Harris Street, Pyrmont
PiOiK (pronounced pee-oyk) means "the bread" in Coptic Egyptian, and it's where owner and head baker Shady Wasef combines his Egyptian heritage with modern techniques to produce a fresh take on baked goods.
At this Sydney bakery you'll find black seed bread and ciabatta studded with halves of onions, flatbread pizzas with Mediterranean ingredients, spice-twist scrolls, and Egyptian semolina cake.
Madame & Yves
343-345 Clovelly Road, Clovelly
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Madame & Yves is by pastry chef Yves Sherrer, who has been gracing quaint Clovelly village with his creative treats since 2019, after creating iconic desserts at Melbourne’s Kisume, Sydney’s Sake, Est, and Ananas.
A French bakery, patisserie and gelateria, it specialises in technique and timeless flavours with a modern edge. You’ll find interesting cakes for every occasion, an exquisite croque monsieur, giant seasonal eclairs, and inspired takes on croissants.
Infinity Bakery
274-279 Victoria Street, Darlinghurst and Shop 3, 15a Market Lane, Manly
This Sydney bakery has been running in some form since 1997 and while it's run by a new crew now, it's still committed to excellent bread made from quality ingredients like organic and sustainable NSW-grown flour.
As well as all your classic loaves, the shelves at Infinity are stocked with Turkish pides, fruit-filled muffins, cinnamon scrolls, and some of the best pies in Sydney.
Oregano Bakery
56 Connells Point Road, South Hurstville and 180 Boundary Road, Peakhurst
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The pièce de résistance of Oregano Bakery is undoubtedly its cinnamon scrolls. Sydneysiders travel from afar to pick up a box of the butter, sugar, cinnamon and vanilla-topped treats, but other notable scrolls on the menu include fairy bread, fig and almond, and tahini and pistachio. However, this little bakery is more than just its sweet treats.
With strong Lebanese heritage, you can imagine the quality of pides at this Sydney bakery: perfect dough, crispy edges and full of traditional flavours.
Banksia Bakehouse
Grosvenor Place, 225 George Street, Sydney CBD
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The busy heart of the city might be the last place you'd expect to discover a top-notch bakery—but that is the void that Banksia Bakehouse sought to fill when it opened in late 2020. Led by an all-star crew, just try to not be smitten with the stunning cakes and pastries on display.
Biscoff and lemon-meringue croissants are heroes, alongside danishes topped with towering seasonal fruit and a glossy green apple, which is actually a meticulously formed apple pie-inspired creation.
Sweet Belem
35B New Canterbury Road, Petersham
Sweet Belem worships at the altar of the Portuguese tart (much like the rest of Petersham, known as Little Portugal by some), and this bakery's tarts are some of the best in Sydney, with caramelised custard wrapped in a crisp layer of golden pastry that is quite simply a little masterpiece.
The croissants, milk bread, palmiers, Portuguese lamingtons, and birthday cakes are also well worth a try.
Breadfern
306-308 Chalmers Street, Redfern
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Breadfern is open from 6am on weekdays (and 7am on weekends), and it’s worth an early rise to pick up a loaf while it's still warm from the oven.
From plain sourdough to fruit and olive loaves, all the classics are up for grabs and, if you’re feeling naughty, you can grab a flaky almond croissant or a cherry danish for breakfast dessert.
Lamin8
Shop11/115-119 Longueville Road, Lane Cove
Lamin8 was founded by Continental Patisserie wholesaler Jian Yao who has been in the pastry game for over three decades. Named after the process of folding dough, this Sydney bakery's slick, white tile affair is a sparkly backdrop to the 20 kinds of pastries they offer.
Bread-wise, you have the impressive charcoal sourdough with a purple pea-flower interior and a gold-dusted crust, while things get even more experimental in the flaky Viennoiserie section, with the likes of matcha, poppyseed, or black-sesame palmiers and golden Breton kouign-amanns.
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