The Baker's Duck

The small café-come-bakery sits on a residential street, just west of the inland city's main business district. Building upon their successful market stalls, The Baker’s Duck team began opening to the public last year for just a six-hour Saturday morning window starting at 7am. Locals patiently queue for their weekly artisan sourdough fix, some grabbing a Journeymen Filter Coffee ($4) or a well-balanced Sour Cherry Kombucha ($5/glass) to wash down a breakfast pastry while they’re there. It's supplemented by a very simple breakfast menu involving sourdough and muesli that you can eat at their communal table under Scando-chic bottled lights. A Snakebite ($5.50) rolling flaky butter puff pastry around jalapeño bacon and provolone is quite simply, the best breakfast pastry I’ve ever stuffed in my gob. Juicy currants help to elevate their Moroccan Lamb Sausage Roll ($7.50) into something that knocks out even those Bourke Street Bakery masterpieces. I’m ...read more