Four to Try: Gluten-Free and Vegan-Friendly Cafes and Bakeries Still Open for Business

It’s strange days indeed when you can’t find toilet paper but it’s easier than ever to get gluten-free and vegan snacks, meals and treats delivered to your door. Despite Covid-19 bringing the hospitality industry to its knees, the pandemic has also seen some of Sydney’s top specialist cafes and bakeries hot-shoe-shuffling to adapt to the NSW government’s new restrictions. Gluten-free and vegan eateries are offering hampers, take-home meal packs, extended operating hours and delivery services to cater for those with dietary requirements. Here are a few of the best.

Nutie Donuts
Gluten-free doughnut outlet Nutie has kept both its Surry Hills and Balmain stores open for takeaway. It’s doing $8 delivery on orders of $30 or more to suburbs within a 20-minute drive of either store. Get sweet treats such as doughnuts, brownies, sticky-date pudding and cookies, as well as savoury meals including curries and soups.

Order online.

facebook.com/wearenutie

Oh My Days

Glebe’s fully vegan bakery Oh My Days is still open for takeaway seven days a week. Expect its signature vegan croissant, as well as vegan danishes, gluten-free bread and the entire South American-influenced menu, including tacos and burritos.

Order online.

ohmydays.com.au

Wholegreen Bakery

Wholegreen Bakery has modified its Waverley shop front and is now doing takeaway from the front window. It also offers a click-and-collect service and delivery. While the owners have had to temporarily shutter their recently opened Sydney CBD location, they’ve moved to operating seven days a week from their eastern suburbs digs, and are offering several varieties of vegan and gluten-free bread, sweet and savoury muffins, two types of brownies, three different pies, pasties and a veggie frittata.

“I have customers daily saying the gluten-free aisles in the supermarkets are empty,” owner Cherie Lydon tells Broadsheet. “We are open and able to provide them with food that they can safely eat”.

wholegreenbakery.com.au

OMG Decadent Doughtnuts East Sydney
OMG Decadent Doughnuts is delivering fresh gluten-free, nut-free, yeast-free vegan fried donuts. They’re normally found at markets all over Sydney’s east, but in light of coronavirus-related restrictions, in the coming days they’re delivering for a fee to suburbs in the east, west, north and south.

facebook.com/omgdecadentdonuts.eastsydney

This article was updated on July 9, 2021.

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