Breadfern

Very disappointing meatpies and croissants. Ordered the beef pie, and most of the crust/​pastry was too hard or inedible. The pie was filled with potatoe mash and little meat with little of any flavor.
The chocolate almond croissant we ordered had no chocolate and was filled with desiccated coconut instead. Highly unsatisfactory experience. Wish they would not cut corners and go beyond making the food look appealing.

First bakery review in Australia, exciting (for me, as I am writing, you might not care at all actually).
The bakery looks nice and I really liked two things.
Firstly, you can see a person actually baking a few meters away, behind the cashier’s counter, and it’s always cool to watch.
Secondly, even though it is nice to see all sorts of breads all over the place, there wasn’t a massive and abundant display of goods and it made me feel like most of what’s there will finish in someone’s stomach and not in a bin. I like no waste people!
Now to the main attraction! I didn’t buy any bread, so by that I meant cake. Cake is cooler than bread anyway. Don’t argue (jeez first you weren’t excited for the first review thing, now you are arguing with me, how uncool).
It was a chocolate sponge cake with pears & dark chocolate decoration — photo in my check-​in — and unfortunately it was average and kinda showered my enthusiasm: the sponge was too dry, the pears not juicy enough, the chocolate had a nice crunchy texture that would have contrasted beautifully with the sponge and the juicy pears but was not dark enough.
I will give it a second chance, a second review, and hopefully the cake was a one off. Because the staff was nice and the place interesting!
Who knows, they might even have duck fat in their sandwiches ;-)

Stopped by the recently opened Breadfern on the way home and had the banana scone — seriously tasty. Will be back to try some of the other treats. You can get sourdough bread here too!