Good bakeries near Woden (or southside), for pastries, pies, sandwiches?

Every couple of weeks I make the (20 minute) effort to go out to Campbell shops for a couple of pies and pastries, so bloody worth it! Really beautiful asian style baking

Chifley bakery. Try their sourdough, pasta dura & rye plus very nice cakes & croissants.

Crust at Fyshwick markets is also good

I love Urambi for being organic. They make the best lamingtons ever (don’t tell my mum I said that). Hands down, without question. Best. Ever. You must eat one now. Or as soon as the shop opens tomorrow morning, if you’re reading this past closing time. Also good for hiring Wilton cake tins and buying specialty cake decorating paraphernalia, and they do make nice salad rolls.

The european style bakery at Chifley grocer’s does ripping good rye bread. And very nice cherry strudel. Normal bakery prices, trendy bakery taste. The croissants are quite nice too. And they make proper coffee, and there’s a park right outside to go read the paper while you enjoy it all. They also sell sacks of proper breadmaking flour if you like to DIY.

Hughes bakery is quite nice, but it just doesn’t quiet click with me. I must have just been unlucky that they were sold out of my favourites the times I’ve been in there.

Garran Bakery makes great pastries too, but I haven’t tried their bread or croissants.

Would love to know about a Vietnamese style bakery in Woden area too.

I’ve heard the bakery at Pearce shops is excellent. Garran bakery is good but not sure on the sandwich front and a little pricey. Curtin shops has a bakery which has a lot of good on offer and not too expensive. Again have no idea on the sandwich front.

EvanJames said :

There’s a “normal” and rather cosy suburban bakery at Hughes shops. Or you could move closer to Kingston and patronise a wonderful Vietnamese bakery (called the National Bakery, I kid thee not) that has brilliant meat pies.

+1 for the National.Their sausage rolls are heaven-sent.

I think Urambi make a pretty good sandwich. I would hardly call it a bakery though. Brunos Truffles in Mawson make very good, although rather pricey, bread.

One word….SILO in Kingston. It does have a “euro-posh” price tag but you won’t care about the price after you hae one of the chocolate filled croissants when they are hot out of the oven.

Also, there is a Vietnamese-style bakery at Wannissa shops and one at the Curtin shops that isn’t too bad.

Not sure what constitutes a “Euro-posh pricetag” – however, the Italian Continental Bakery at Mawson does fantastic pastries, both simple and fancy-pants style. From memory, their croissants are about $2, chocolate croissants are $2.60, escargots are $2.50, almond croissants are around $3. Their Italian-style bread is great too, and very reasonably priced. They also have a substantial – and reasonably priced – breakfast and lunch menu.
There are a couple of downsides, however:
1. They tend to run out of the good stuff quite quickly.
2. Their coffee is awful.

There is also a Vietnamese bakery at Mawson, but their pastries are not a patch on the Italian ones. They do very nice quiches though. There’s also a Vietnamese bakery at the Curtin Shops, although I haven’t been there for years.

There’s a “normal” and rather cosy suburban bakery at Hughes shops. Or you could move closer to Kingston and patronise a wonderful Vietnamese bakery (called the National Bakery, I kid thee not) that has brilliant meat pies.