A good bakery is at the heart of a country town, but Bangalow Bread don’t only make delicious organic sourdough bread in Bangalow, they also have a huge range of other wonderful freshly-baked items. The taste of any of these items will let you know how good it is to eat something unique, baked fresh every day, locally, using the best ingredients they can get their hands on.
Tyson and Jess Phillips took over the small-town bakery in 2019, and brought the traditional methods of the age-old trade of baking into the modern, still charming, main street of Bangalow. To use a modern word, this is ‘artisanal’ bread, and it really means something in this context – each loaf is hand-crafted by the bakers, free of additives or preservatives.
Their gut-loving sourdough breads – which look fantastic by the way – are made daily by a traditional process and slowly fermented for a minimum of 24 hours so they have just the right amount of taste and chew. They use local suppliers to source everything in season, and fresh local ingredients.
To further reduce ‘food miles’, all the freshly-baked items in the shop are made in-house, and it’s not hard to find an advocate online for any one of their bakery items, including: some of the best pies you’ll ever taste (filled with slow-cooked, locally-sourced beef cooked onsite); must-have lemon tarts; exotic savoury focaccias (such as jalapeno and cherry tomato); chocolate mud cakes topped with maple bacon and peanut brittle; vanilla slices made with butter puff pastry and passionfruit icing … and the rest. They all go perfectly with their coffee.
It’s even worth travelling to Bangalow to try their sandwiches, or if you have a special event you can order one of their made-to-order cakes to give your party that ‘wow’ factor. If you go in the morning, grab a loaf of their satisfying sourdough to take home and enjoy fresh – so much more satisfying than buying bread from the distant, faceless corporations who sell bread in the supermarket.
Bangalow Bread Co
12 Byron St, Bangalow
Monday to Friday 6am to 3pm, Saturday and Sunday 7am to 2pm
bangalowbread.co
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