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Buttercrumbs Croissant – Five Dock NSW Restaurant Review

My mother wanted me to look at an apartment I couldn’t afford in Five Dock. We had pastries we couldn’t afford instead. Allow me to explain:

The Corn & Cheese ($7), true to its name, was an open pastry topped with corn and cheese. It gave a memory of pizza, what with its cheesiness and a slight hint of capsicum. The pastry was quite flaky and excellent.

The Vanilla Tart ($7) was really just fine. A bit runny, a bit fancy, what with its expensive black dots (included).

The Cherry Cream Cheese ($6.50) was the cheapest and my favourite of the bunch. Both my partner and I love a good sour cherry.

The Hot Dog Twist ($7.50) tasted lik esomething you could get for $3 from Breadtop but with laminated pastry. I don’t even particularly like those hot dog buns, don’t think I’ll be getting this again.

The Sticky Nuts ($7) I found to be unfortunately a bit too sweet and sticky for my taste, though I did very much enjoy the huge mountain of croissant dough underneath the caramelised sugared layer on top.

Overall thoughts
I honestly didn’t know before going that this was a Korean bakery not that any of the items that we had was particularly Korean. Tenacious Bakehouse remains my S-class Korean pastry shop of Sydney. Maybe if we didn’t eat out so much we could actually afford to buy residential property.

Buttercrumbs Croissant
Shop 1/189 Great N Rd, Five Dock NSW 2046
0421 339 389

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Bakery Japanese

Kurimu – Port Melbourne VIC Restaurant Review

Ignore the location heading – Kurimu is a chain bakery, so it doesn’t really matter where I got this particular original choux ($4.20) from (Westfield Hurstville NSW, by the way) – it would be like going to a Breadtop and writing about a particular outlet, as if there were significant store-to-store variation in the high uniformity products that they produce.

This original choux was a really great snack, with a crunchy buttery almond-coated exterior and a super smooth creamy filling. The most important factor for any dessert, its sweetness level, notched a perfect “not too sweet” from both me and my partner.

Really worth a try the next time you walk past a stall

Kurimu
Multiple Locations – see website.

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Bakery

Baked by Keiran – Dulwich Hill Restaurant Review

I hadn’t realised, when I went, that Baked by Keiran was a bit of a successful enterprise with five bakeries spread throughout East and South Sydney. I had imagined at the time that the guy who had corrected my pronunciation and sold me these two baked goods was the Keiran written on the label, but it turns out after visiting their website and reading about the company that he was clearly just a guy who worked there.

I chose this orange almond & blackberry cake ($6.90) as the first of two items to supplement my haul from Dulwich Hill Pork Roll around the corner. This cake was on the denser side, in line with my partner’s preference, and happily not too sweet. I think the dominant flavour of the cake was cake itself, with some almond in it as well. The orange was subtle, and the blackberry was similarly present but reasonably scarce. I would’ve much preferred the fruits, in particular the blackberry, to have made a greater showing. It was overall good, however.

The first time I had a canelé ($3.50) I didn’t know what it was called. I admitted to as much in my review of Babyface Kitchen, where I really did what I could to avoid having to name it. Fast forward a year and while I know what it’s called, I still didn’t know how it’s called. I was a little embarrassed when the guy (not Keiran) corrected my pronunciation, but this is how we learn. I enjoyed the caramelise crust and the gooey, glutinous centre, though as a guy who doesn’t even know how to say the name I also don’t know what it’s meant to taste like. I’ve never had the benchmark or textbook canelé, though this tasting will of course inform subsequent ones.

Baked by Keiran Dulwich Hill
455 Marrickville Rd, Dulwich Hill NSW 2203
(02) 8065 6222

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American Bakery Market Stall

Brooklyn Boy Bagels – Marrickville NSW Restaurant Review

I’ve not actually eaten at Brookyln Boy Bagels in Marrickville, though I hope to by the time this review has been published. I have, instead, had their Blueberry Bagel ($4.20) with an unusually expensive little tub of cream cheese (I think $3.50? – we spent a total of $7.85 for the pictured bagel and cheese) at one of their many market stalls around greater Sydney.

This bagel was pretty good, man. I don’t know if it was $7.85 good, but as someone who’s never been to New York and doesn’t actually know what a New York bagel should taste like, I was satisfied. I enjoyed the chewy texture, the not-too-sweet, almost savoury quality, and of course the thick layer of expensive ass cream cheese.

My partner went to their bakery in Marrickville the next day and had some kind of everything bagel with lox, inspired by the latest hotness out of A24. I’m told it was pretty good, though she relished the opportunity to eat without having to take a photo.

Brooklyn Boy Bagels
19 Carrington Rd, Marrickville NSW 2204
02) 9158 9555

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American Bakery Café

Small Talk Coffee & Snacks – Dulwich Hill Restaurant Review

This is Small Talk’s Lox Bagel ($17.50). I don’t know the physical or legal difference between a bagel with filling and a sandwich, apart from the type of bread, but nonetheless enjoyed this bagel with filling. The bagel has a sweet and savoury flavour, with a mildly dense texture providing a perfect balance of bite and chew. The filling of smoked salmon, caper paste, pickled onion and cream cheese was deeply umami, with a good mix of different textures and flavours. My partner and I shared the one bagel, and I do not think it was inadequate. They come pre-sliced in half, so if eating with a friend or colleague they are optimal for sharing two different halves of two different bagels.

Another item pre-destined for sharing is their Raspberry Fritter ($7.50), essentially a square glazed donut with a light hint of raspberry filling. If you were to close your eyes it would be almost indistinguishable from a Krispy Kreme original glazed donut, though the grooves did make it extremely convenient to tear and share. Not the strongest dessert though, and I feel too expensive for what it was.

Please note that this venue is more takeaway oriented, with only very limited outdoor benching available.

Small Talk Dulwich Hill
Shop 2/355 New Canterbury Rd, Dulwich Hill NSW 2203