Our wine tasting experience at Coal Valley Vineyards left us craving something to eat, since we had…read morerushed to eat breakfast on board our cruise ship before leaving for this excursion, and luckily, the second part of our excursion brought us to historic Richmond, Tasmania. We parked in the lot of the Richmond Gaol Historic Site and first went into Sweets & Treats for Australian and New Zealand confections, then into this bakery. When we entered with my sisters, there weren't any customers, so I took my time to peer into their display cases, check out their menu, and take photos. Suddenly, a crowd and line formed behind me, and several counterhelpers began asking if I was ready to place my order. I ordered a Lamington, a Caramel Slice, and flat whites, while my husband, who had gotten "instructions" from my sisters, had his eyes on the meat pie of the day, a Curried Scallop pie, since he doesn't have a sweet tooth or is a chocoholic like me. While he paid for our snacks, I delivered the pie and pastries to the table where my two older sisters were waiting. I briefly stepped away from the table to help carry the four flat whites, get eating utensils and napkins, and set the table, as we planned to share the food among our foursome. But when I returned, my sisters and husband had broken into the curried scallop pie. I could smell the savoriness of the curry and a slight scent of seafood from the pie. They motioned to hurry back to the table to try a piece of the tasty pie. Indeed, the piece of pie they had broken off for me had a sturdy, flaky shortcrust, and its mild curry-flavored filling had oozed onto the parchment paper bag it had been packaged in. So, thanks to my family, I didn't take a cross-section picture of the luscious, tender, savory, and well-balanced Aussie meat, er, seafood pie, as it was too messy to show. But, trust me, Richmond Bakery captured the cultural significance and iconic status of this Australian "national dish." Anyway, the curry flavor made for a strange-tasting blend with our flat whites, so we quickly shared the Lamington and Caramel Slice. Both iconic Australian pastries had great texture, moisture, and sweetness, which paired so much better with our coffee beverages and my sweet tooth. The friendly service, clean, historical ambiance, authentic flavors, and reasonable pricing at Richmond Bakery are what make us want to return.

Gayle and I recently came here for Lunch. The Richmond Bakery does make a damn good Chicken Curry…read moremeat pie. And it was great to enjoy our Lunch outside on such a nice Tasmanian Day.

This is my second time visiting this bakery and I would highly recommend this place to everyone. By…read morefar the best bakery in town with amazing homemade pies and beautiful pastries for dessert.

Great bread, great patisserie, if your in Sandy Bay a MUST visit!read more

Three years on and just as good. Great atmosphere in this hundred year old bakery/ caferead more

On our last day in town, we finally had a chance to walk down here and check the place out. It…read moreturned out to be one of the more memorable spots we hit up. We were staying just above the wharf and spent about 20 minutes walking over. They had a great array of crusty, sweet and savory pastries, pies, and breakfast items. Perhaps the most impressive thing was the fact that their list of specials took up an entire chalkboard. Everything from sweet rolls too, wallaby and rabbit, pie, to some delicious eggs Benedict and a big English breakfast. They had something for everybody, and everything was really good! The place is housed in a relatively old building with a lot of character! Not so old that you're worried that you would find petrified things in the wall, but old enough that you definitely know the place has had a chance to fall over and won't. The staff was really nice, took great care of us and found us seats very quickly, despite the place being busy. All in all, this is a must check out spot whenever you are in town!

Dangerously good. Freshly baked sourdough is absolutely yummy. Too many tempting pastries. What a…read moregreat find

After visiting Mount Wellington, I was on my way to visit the Bonorong Wildlife Park as part of a…read morebus day tour. I had not packed a lunch so the tour guide brought us to Brighton's Best Bakehouse to pick up some food. This was one of the few eateries in the area as dining options are more limited outside of Hobart. Though I had been in Australia for several days, I had yet to eat a meat pie while on my trip. Considering the bakery has won some awards for their meat pies, it seemed fitting that this would be the first place that I did. There is a long list of different varieties of savory meat pies to choose from here. They also offer baked goods here if you are looking for something sweet instead. If you decide to dine in, there is a decent amount of seating. This spot has the feel of a roadside truck stop eatery. Decided to order a sausage roll and a meat pie which were quite inexpensive at under $8 for both items. And the size of these meat pastries were sizable. One would have sufficed for a light meal. The sausage in the sausage roll is reminiscent of the taste of Vienna sausage which I liked. The meat pie was enjoyable as well. It has a nice pie crust and the meat filling was flavorful. Considering the limited food options outside of Hobart, it seemed quite amazing to find some delicious Aussie meat pies at BBB that were filling and inexpensive. If you are in the area visiting Bonorong Wildlife Park, this is a nice place to pick up some food before visiting the park.

This patisserie was right across our hotel so we were easily tempted. Alas, the confections looked…read morebetter than they tasted and we were a bit disappointed.

We came here for a late breakfast/early lunch. It is somewhat more of a refined cake and dessert…read moretype bakery, and the dessert items did look fabulous in the case. For breakfast however, it wasn't very good for me as there were very limited lower carb/higher protein items. We ordered an almond croissant and a sausage and shiraz roll along with a flat white coffee. We sat outside as they didn't have the AC running and it was really way too warm inside. They have table service inside and servers that run out the food you had ordered at the counter. They were all super friendly and even asked if everything was satisfactory as they cleared our table. Unfortunately, neither of the baked goods were great. The almond croissant had a nicely laminated dough although it needed a tad of salt. The dough was buttery however lacking flavor most likely due to a lack of salt in the butter they used in the dough. The filling was almost like really dense cake batter with basically no almond flavor - the texture seemed almost right, maybe they forgot the almond paste or almond extract. We are used to a much, much stronger flavored almond croissant with almond paste inside. There were nicely toasted almond slices on the top. The sausage roll was a real disappointment. Although it looked really nice it was very heavy, seemed greasy and had two fundamental flaws. The dough was too thick around the sausage so when they wrapped it and baked it there was way too much dough and it was actually nearly raw all along the bottom edges. The sausage was not crumbled or taken out of the casing so when you bit through the roll (or even cut it as we did) the entire sausage slipped right out of the dough and left a big empty hole! It did have nice caramelized onions and some herbs or spinach (didn't eat enough to know exactly!) between the dough and sausage - they might have contributed to the wet/raw sogginess of the dough if they were not cooked enough and then released water into the dough. They were very gracious when I asked if I could get a refund for the sausage roll as I could not find anything else I wanted to get as a replacement. Our server could not have been any more professional and nice about it. He got approval from his manager and gave us the refund. The flat white was very good. If I needed to eat some lovely desserts I'd give them another try given their professional staff and good service.