A top coffee roaster has brought its signature New York-style bagels to the north shore. Plus, cinnamon-dipped crumpets, and cheesy toasties made in collaboration with Melbourne’s Maker & Monger.

Visit this patisserie for 20 different types of pastries (including palmiers in an array of flavours) and activated-charcoal sourdough loaves. Plus, there are buttery croissants, chunky kouign-amman and beef-and-kimchi pies.

Rotating single origin coffees down a laneway.

A Mediterranean-inspired restaurant with a spritz bar and sunny terrace.

A cocktail bar bridging the divide between Asian and Spanish flavours, where cocktails don’t challenge and dishes are down to earth.

A casual Middle Eastern menu covering the region.

Cured meats, Spanish wine and tapas – you'll find all three at this spin-off to the long-standing Pitt Street restaurant of the same name.

A sophisticated salad bar on the lower north shore.

Lane Cove’s answer to true Neapolitan pizza. And it’s the got the accreditation from the highest authority of Neapolitan pizza-making to prove it. The metre-long, triple-topped pizzas here are a showstopper.