Bourke Street Bakery Surry Hills ★ 4.6
Sydney's most-imitated bakery on Bourke Street, Surry Hills. Open daily from 7am; the bacon-and-egg ciabatta roll is the menu signature, retail till 4pm.
Worth the queue: Pork and fennel sausage roll
Sonoma Bakery Cafe is a bakery in Alexandria, Sydney.
Sonoma's flagship Alexandria cafe and bakery: wood-fired miche, sourdough crumpets and seeded loaves that go to the city's brunch counters citywide.
Address: 32-44 Birmingham Street, Alexandria NSW 2015, Sydney
Sydney's most-imitated bakery on Bourke Street, Surry Hills. Open daily from 7am; the bacon-and-egg ciabatta roll is the menu signature, retail till 4pm.
Worth the queue: Pork and fennel sausage roll
Igor Ivanovic's wholesale-and-retail bakery on Macpherson Street, Bronte, Sydney. Open Tue-Sat 7am-2pm; stone-milled sourdough loaves daily.
Worth the queue: Iggy's sourdough loaf
European bakery and cafe on Cleveland Street, Chippendale, Sydney. Sourdough loaves at the counter, strong pastry program, weekend queues from open.
Worth the queue: Bacon, manchego and pickle ciabatta toastie
Kate and Cam Reid's croissant counter on Barangaroo Avenue, Sydney. Open daily 7:30am-2pm; the twice-baked almond croissant is the menu signature daily.
Worth the queue: Twice-baked almond croissant
Nadine Ingram's pastry bench on Riley Street, Woolloomooloo, Sydney. The morning load of panforte slices, lamingtons and brown-butter cakes is gone by 1pm.
Worth the queue: Panforte slice
Pie shop and pastry counter on Buckingham Street, Surry Hills, Sydney from Eight by Andrew McConnell alumni. Strong pastry program, weekend queues from open.
Worth the queue: Curry beef hand-pie