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Best Bread

Bread (especially free bread) is served at the beginning of a meal by any good restaurant. It’s important and not merely incidental. House-made butter and steamy, fresh bread are the minimum standard. Care should be put into: warmth, freshness, flavour, density and the butter. Usually wholegrain or rye, for flavour. Either the butter or the bread needs a special/unusual flavour and texture (e.g coming from fermentation, salt, herbs, honey, oil etc). Here are my faves. You can read more about them in my reviews.

  1. Automata (buns)
  2. LuMi Bar & Dining (brioche)
  3. Ester (fermented potato bread with the dash jelly, trout roe and kefir cream)
  4. Jonah’s (focaccia)
  5. Bert’s (fried bread rolls)
  6. Totti’s (woodfired puffy bread)
  7. Fred’s (wood oven fougasse)
  8. Sixpenny (leftover coffee and non-coffee sourdough)
  9. Quay (not so much for the bread, but for the butter)
  10. Berowra Waters Inn (brioche buns)

N.B I’d include the roti at Momofuku Seiōbo if I felt it didn’t swing too far from the ‘bread’ category. Photos from Quay and Buon Ricordo were lost when my computer crashed (to be updated soon). I also excluded ACME‘s brioche baloney because half the reason it’s so good is because of the baloney and relish inside (it’s more of a dish than merely bread). I didn’t like Iggy’s bread when I had it at Bentley (twice), but at Huxton’s it was AMAZING (potentially a freshness issue?). Also, if we included Melbourne, Dinner by Heston, Vue de Monde, Attica and Igni all have better bread than all of the above restaurants. 

If you’re not going fancy, and you’re just thinking about bakeries or cafés, I’d recommend: Bake Bar, Lox Stock and Barrel (best bagels), Iggy’s, Bourke St Bakery in Surry Hills or Brickfields. 

Focaccia at Jonah’s

  1. Bread and butter (only had a pic with the anchovies) at Bodega 1904.
    Rye and honey bread at Est.
    Sixpenny’s bread (second serving) is made with leftover round-one bread, adding coffee granules. It’s insane.
    Sixpenny’s bread round one (first serving).
    Nothing like Sotto Sopra’s fresh brioche. Although it was far from the flavour punch of normal garlic bread, this was still SO GOOD.
    Pavoni’s garlic bread at Sotto Sopra
    I enjoyed Automata’s bread so much. It’s warm and not sweet like brioche, but with more of a sourdough/rye taste.
    Bread at Automata
     
    Fried bread. From Bert’s.
LuMi’s brioche.
Bread range at Tetsuya’s.
Brioche at Berowra Waters Inn.
Treacle butter with the bread at Berowra Waters Inn.
Bread at Arthur in Surry Hills.
Totti’s woodfired bread.
Totti’s puffed up woodfired bread.
Otto.
Bread at Cottage Point Inn.
Focaccia at A Tavola.
Pretzel at 10 William St.
Whipped bottarga that comes with the pretzel at 10 William St.
Ester’s woodfired bread.
Ester’s bread with keffir cream and roe.

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