La Paula

The Verdict

This Chilean bakery and café in Sydney specialises in empanadas and dulce de leche sweets and who doesn’t love those? Half the store is taken up with a pastry counter full of delicious Chilean delicacies like alfajores, Berlin custard-filled doughnuts or the traditional tres leches cake – a butter cake soaked in evaporated milk, condensed milk and cream. The empanadas are crisp and full of tasty fillings like beef mince, onion, olive and boiled egg. La Paula is like a trip to Chile without the jetlag.