12 To Try: The Best Regional Bakeries in NSW

There’s nothing quite like pulling up to a country bakery on a long road trip and filling up on flaky pies, finger buns and chocolate milk. And while you’ll still find plenty of these old-school gems in small towns and bigger regional centres across NSW, you’ll also find world-class bakehouses pumping out exceptional croissants, organic sourdough made with locally grown flour and some extra-gorgeous tarts.

Here are 12 bakeries worth a visit on your next NSW road trip, whichever direction you’re heading.

Burnt Honey Bakery, Copacabana

Couple your next Central Coast visit with a visit to this gorgeous bakehouse, owned by married business partners Hayley Thorncraft and Joanna Fairall. The pair are all about using local suppliers and ensuring waste and packaging is kept to a minimum, gaining a local following for baked goods you might have trouble finding elsewhere on the coast. We’re talking dense seeded rye sourdoughs and golden, sticky kouign-amanns. Intricate frangipane-filled galette des rois are on offer throughout January, alongside custard-filled sfogiatelle. You’ll also find croissants made with Pepe Saya butter and danishes piled with seasonal fruit. And don’t snooze on the olive fougasse. Or the finger buns. Expect return trips.

Shop 1/224 Del Monte Place, Copacabana
burnthoneybakery.com.au
@burnthoneybakery

Slow Dough, Kiama

Make sure to catch Kiama’s blowhole blow, then make moves to this little beachside bakery on Bong Bong Street. A kalamata-studded slice of sourdough focaccia is an obvious pick, as are the mega everything bagels. Croissants, fruit-topped tarts and ever-changing morning buns stand out with a hybrid sourdough-croissant dough. And the umami-rich, sesame-crusted loaf of miso sourdough should come home with you. 

19 Bong Bong Street, Kiama
slowdough.com.au
@slowdoughbythesea

Peaches Patisserie, Dorrigo

If you’re travelling north from Sydney, turn off at Bellingen then keep going through to Dorrigo. This lush part of northern NSW is home to Peaches, a charming pastry spot from Beth O’Loughlin. Everything’s made on-site with hyperlocal ingredients – the organic flour’s grown in the state, and the potatoes are harvested in the very same neighbourhood. Stop in for your pick from a mighty range: plump doughnuts, plain and flavoured croissants, sweet and savoury buns and meringue-topped tarts. Plus, bunches of locally grown flowers.

53 Hickory Street, Dorrigo
peachespatisserie.com.au
@peachespatisserie

Baker and Daughters, Mullumbimby

This inland Northern Rivers town has a tight-knit community that loves its baked goods. Matt Marshall’s captaining the ovens, while his wife Beck Marshall and their daughters run the counter. Head in for house-baked bread, homely scones, plenty of pastries and whopping sangas on crusty sourdough rolls. Plus, exceptionally pretty cakes for all your celebrating needs.

28 Burringbar Street, Mullumbimby
bakerdaughters.com
@bakeranddaughters

Unique Patisserie, Katoomba

This Blue Mountains stop is a winner in more ways than one. First, it hits all the notes you want from a classic regional bakery: golden, puffed pies; fat lamingtons; muted neon meringue creatures with Smartie eyes; and wobbly custard tarts. But that’s all bolstered with some excellent Malaysian food. Generous serves of slow-cooked beef rendang, smoky char kway teow laden with prawns, slightly sour assam laksa, bang-on nasi goreng and fragrant laksa lemak with bouncy rice noodles and plenty of veg. Cambodian husband-and-wife team Sertheng and Sok Gov bought the bakery in 2018, and have been slowly adding Cambodian dishes to the menu, too – so make sure to ask for a rec.

169 Katoomba Street, Katoomba
@uniquepatisserie

Black Cockatoo Bakery, Lawson and Katoomba

Black Cockatoo does some of the best croissants around – not just in the Blue Mountains, but in NSW. The original baker-owner ­– Paris-born Alex Rivière, (a former fine-dining chef with experience at Sean’s) – garnered a following for his special, traditionally made baked goods, with his wife and business partner Lulu Rivière handling operations. The pair sold the business in September 2025, but the golden bakery treats continue with the new custodians. Hefty croissants are laminated with Pepe Saya butter. Sourdough is made from organic, stone-ground Australian flour, and naturally fermented for more than 20 hours using wild live cultures. Plus, find fruity danishes, pizza bianca, special filled croissants (like choc-hazelnut or pickle-topped Reubens) and more.

Shop 1/1 Staples Crescent, Lawson
165 Katoomba Street, Katoomba

blackcockatoobakery.com.au
@blackcockatoobakery

Flour Water Salt, South Nowra, Kiama and Milton

The fact that family-owned and -run Flour Water Salt has three bakeries is testament to its attention to detail – and the focus on doing a few things perfectly, rather than baking a lot ofitems half-arsed. The pick here is the naturally leavened sourdough loaves – they’re made with organic flour, purified water and Aussie sea salt, shaped by hand and left to rise in willow baskets before being popped in the oven. The charred Portuguese custard tarts make ace road trip snacks, just like the nostalgic honey jumbles.

13 Enterprise Ave, South Nowra
49 Shoalhaven Street, Kiama
87 Princes Highway, Milton

flourwatersalt.com.au
@flourwatersaltbakery

Dojo Bread, Braidwood

Dojo Bread is the perfect stopover for your next road trip to Canberra. Though it does a ripper trade in bready items – like a dense rye sourdough using house-milled grains, sesame-studded bagels, and crusty white Vienna loaves – the must-order here is the pork and fennel sausage roll, made with fresh herbs. Or the carrot cake with ample cream cheese frosting. Or rustic hand pies. Whichever way you go, forget the service-station coffee – Ona beans are on the machine, so you’re sorted.

90 Wallace Street, Braidwood
dojobread.com.au
@dojobread

Clementine Bakery, Yass and Murrumbateman

Pre-pandemic, Clementine was a fine-dining restaurant in Yass, the pretty little suburb an hour north of Canberra. But after the 2020 lockdown, husband-wife owners Brooke Sainsbery and Adam Bantock switched gears, turning it into a bakery. In their main Comur Street spot, everything’s made by hand in small batches using local ingredients – from beautiful sourdough loaves, mega cinnamon scrolls and perfectly flaky croissants to Portuguese tarts, individual cakes and more. There’s a second space in Murrumbateman now too, about 20 minutes south.

69 Comur Street, Yass
47 Rose Street, Murrumbateman

clementinebakery.com.au
@clementinebakery

Honorbead, Bermagui and Narooma

Baker Honor Northam and her husband Tim Northam opened Honorbread in serene Bermagui in 2015, selling handmade bread and pastries. And it’s been a favourite ever since, with a Narooma outpost arriving at the end of 2023. The stars here are the eccles cakes. Rounds of house-made puff pastry are filled with dried currants, lemon juice, orange zest, sugar and spices, then soaked in rum and brandy and baked until perfectly golden and flaky. Then there are oat-topped ginger scones, perfect sugar-crusted scrolls, potato danishes and stuffed sandwiches on house-baked bread.

8 Bunga Street, Bermagui
Unit 2/114 Wagonga Street, Narooma

honorbread.com
@honorbread_bermagui

Racine Bakery, Orange

Orange has a reputation for outstanding food – Hey Rosey, The Union Bank and Fiorini’s, to name a few. And Racine Bakery, hidden behind the local Woolies, is no exception. Famous for its flaky butter-pastry pies and classic French bakes like croissants, escargot and madeleines, the bakery also does a road trip-worthy bacon, egg and cheese on ciabatta and very good-looking cakes.

142 Summer Street, Orange
racinerestaurant.com.au
@racineorange

Milkwood Bakery, Berry

On the historic main drag of quaint Berry is Milkwood, which has been plying locals and visitors with flour-based treats since 2012. Stop by for warming cinnamon scrolls, pretty tarts piled with seasonal fruit and elegant versions of classics such as carrot cake. The line-up of pies is noteworthy too – particularly the beef bourguignon and extra-cheesy, vego-friendly cauliflower and pecorino. Be sure to grab a sourdough loaf before the long drive back to the city.

109 Queen Street, Berry
milkwoodbakery.com.au
@milkwoodberry

Additional reporting by Che-Marie Trigg.