My online search yielded only the St. Honore Sourdough Bakery as a bakery open on weekends within walking distance of our North Sydney hotel, though admittedly Yelp is rather limited in the land down under, especially since it seemed they withdrew from their attempt in establishing an online presence when they removed their local community manager (Benjamin "Salt Lick" B.) from his post, whose own final (to date) Yelp post was published 10/30/2016. (Perhaps my longest run on sentence on Yelp to date?)
St. Honore is just down Mills Street and is a small establishment with a counter presenting their pastries and sweets behind glass and their breads along the wall behind. A handful of tables line the edge which enabled us to dine in on our second visit.
My first trip yielded a delicious almond croissant, my favorite (of two sampled locally) spinach roll, and an indulgent ham and cheese bachamel slice. The chocolate croissant was left in the dust by its almond variant.
On our dine in visit, we sat down to our own little buffet of pies - Gourmet Minced Beef, Lamb Provencale, Beef Burgundy, Sausage Roll, and another of their Spinach Rolls - and finished off with a light fluffy non-too-sweet Lamington $4.20 which came sans the optional raspberry filling.
Their sausage roll was moister and tastier than one sampled just a hop skip and jump away at the nearby Greenwich Plaza. Their meat pies were chock full of saucy meat, but I preferred their rolls.
If you can only have one option for a weekend's fast breaking, St. Honore's a good one. read more