La Banette Patisserie

Such a cute little French café with cabinets filled with delicate pastries, cakes and more. It’s a small and cosy space so you might not be able to sit-​in but there’s no excuse not to buy a few take-​away.

Went to this nice little boulangerie on the weekend and i really can’t say anything bad about, the cakes were excellent and i’m looking forward to go again soon.

These guys make the best chocolate croissants, sausage rolls & beef burgundy pies in all of Sydney… yes better than Bourke St & Black Star. I know that’s a big call, but I get something from there every week & it’s all full of flavour. The coffee is good but not the best. Friendly & efficient staff.

Ambiance: 10 for 10. Rustic inside, instantly transporting you to a Parisian boulangerie without ever having to leave Glebe Point Road.
Service: again, fab. I ordered a quiche and was told by the woman serving me that the quiche was ever so slightly aesthetically imperfect so she included three little pastry puffs along with my order to make up for it. That’s service!
Offerings: Good selection of breads, pastries, little cakes, savouries, pies… they even had mini versions of pastries so you could try even more different little bits. Love.
Food itself: unfortunately, this is where I felt let down. The mini almond croissant was totally meh, clearly had been baked a day or two prior, and tasted stale. The mini chocolate croissant was burned on the bottom. BF’s chocolate éclair was nice, but nothing to write home about. And the Quiche Lorraine was inexplicably flavoured with fresh dill (not my favourite herb to begin with) and the pastry crust far too dense. The interior was creamy and very tasty if almost a bit undercooked but on my last bite I found myself unpleasantly crunching down on a bit of eggshell!
Willing to give this place another go since their range of baked goods is extensive and looks so tasty. Everyone has a off day now and again…

I saw the baker in the back literally bashing the life out of the bread dough he was making (with a baseball bat) and that has since absolutely confirmed my love affair with this Patisserie. My stomach told me the éclair I was eating was the best it has ever had, and the coffee is great every time I’ve been here. And the sourdough bread, well, words fail me in describing it. You may have gathered I’m a little something akin to bread obsessed (well I used to be before I got caught up in lo-​carb diets etc. Yeuch!) and you would be right. The bread is un-​effing-​belieavable from this place. amazingly good, and on par with Brasserie Bread, and Sonoma.
Oh, and I hear the mark of any good patisserie goes down to the nitty-​gritty — the simplest yet hardest of all pastries to master — the citron tart. 100% perfect in my book. Absolutely 100% perfect. Thanks to Jon for taking me here first!

The pastries here are YUMMMMMYYY! We were having a family get together with afternoon tea and decided to get a few pastries and snacks from here. There is so much to choose from but the almond croissant is delicious, as is the caramel and chocolate eclairs, as well as some tasty savory breads like the sun dried tomato.
The place is really cute and rustic and the staff is nice.
I will say the barista who made our chai lattes wasn’t very good as it tasted like steamed milk. He attempted to make it again but it still wasn’t very good. My cousin also asked for a weak coffee and hers was strong.
So for me — pastries/​food is good, coffee is just ehh.

One of the perks of the inner west without a doubt is La Banette Boulangerie on the weekend. It’s french provincial at it’s best in Sydney as this second of two boulangeries (the first in Avalon) is a gem of Glebe with something for everyone even if you are not a sweet tooth.
The coffee is Sydney barista crema art at it’s best (it’s better than Clipper café coffee)
I’m also a fan of the quiches with the amazing asparagus and goat cheese as the winner. The quiche pastry is light, buttery and utter perfection with a whole display in the back dedicated to various quiches and pies.
If a baguette or bread is what you are after best to go with the fig and walnut loaf or the olive baguette. I’m not a fan of the sourdough at La Banette (the only reason I don’t give La Banette the elusive 5 stars) as I’m a true San Fran sourdough snob and Sonoma Bakery and Brasserie Bread are where sourdough is at in Sydney.
Now for the pastries — where else can you get an assortment of mini eclairs, tartlets, petit fours for under $ 15 that are fresh and beautiful for a dinner party or girl’s night indulgence?
Now for the breakdown — You will be in buttery, sugary and/​or chocolaty heaven if you have the:
Opera slices
Pain au chocolat
Meringues
Pecan tartlets
Lemon tartlets
Oooh I forgot — the brioche and croissants — make me want to remember my two years of french and are utterl perfection in the morning still warm.
Tôi yêu bn! Je t’aime La Banette!

I can’t comment on anything else but the coffee éclair as that’s all I’ve had so far, suffice to say that I wouldn’t recommend purchasing one.
First up, everything here looks delicious, beautifully presented and the store set up itself is very delightful. I guess this gave me high expectations. The service was fine, nothing remarkable.
On to my review, the coffee éclair was wonderfully presented, it looked divine — 10 points there. Unfortunately, that’s where the awesome abruptly ended. The coffee cream inside the éclair was hardly edible and the pastry itself was pretty tasteless — I didn’t even finish it. The toffee on top was pretty much the only thing worth eating, and even that was’t particularly lipsmacking. Considering that anything either toffee or coffee flavoured usually makes me sublimely happy, I was very disappointed with this to say the least! Not worth the $ 4 in my opinion, that’s for sure.
While I can’t comment on anything else so far, I’d suggest you stick to the croissants or something like that that you can’t really go wrong with, as they all look and smell wonderful.
In saying that I wasn’t happy with the coffee éclair, I would still go back and try some more items from here considering the other nice reviews.

What a gem. La Banette is a subtly authentic tribute to the great French patisserie and boulangerie. It’s a small, European-​style café that sells breads, pastries, pies, and quiches, all made in-​house. My absolute favorite thing to get here is the almond croissant and a coffee. The coffee is realllyyyy good. I also love La Banette for last minute catering purposes. If I decide to throw a little get-​together at my house, I’ll always swing by this place and pick up some miniature pastries for my guests.
I’d say that the prices are pretty average compared to other Sydney bakeries. Obviously, the more intricate pastries are pricier, but they’re some of the best I’ve had yet in the city. The owner of the bakery is a very sweet woman, though some of the other employees have sour attitudes. You’ll find a few places to sit, but it might feel a bit to small to get comfortable.
I believe that this branch of the bakery is the second to open up, the first being in Avalon in the Northern Beaches.

I don’t know what hits me first-​the aroma of caramelised sugar, chocolate, or the smell of freshly baked bread and delicious pies. With its stylish décor, friendly and unassuming staff, and of course, pastries to-​die-​for, this is one of the best bakeries in town.
Try a cute pecan tartlet (or three!), a caramel éclair, a chocolate croissant, and a host of other delightful treats. They also do some great sourdough, and fruit and raisin bread.
A slice of France in the inner city.

You can easily get a pastry anywhere in Sydney but this is where I go to if I’m at Sydney University or around the Glebe area. And if I don’t eat, I stare at the glass cabinet. If I’m walking by (to go to Gleebooks) I will still stop just so I can stare for a second. And then I have a silent conversation with myself. «Can you eat this right now?» «No, you can’t». «So then who else could do with a ham and melted cheese croissant?» And then I rattle off names in my head. Partner, brother, mother, father, anyone else I’m due to see. It’s a philanthropic act of sorts.
Everything here looks tremendous. They have space out back where the bakery goods people make the little devils and you may seem them from time to time walk in and out with little one-​person cakes, group-​sized cakes, brownies, snails (they also have quiches, sausage rolls, and pies) tarts, all kinds of breads etc. The only catch is that when everything looks so good (believe me, everything in that store looks so good) you’re clearly going to expect it to taste good as well. There was one lady on my last visit there who complained to the baked goods person that her quiche was a little bland. The ham and melted cheese croissant, though, is definitely not bland. It’s heaven. It’s the All New ham and melted cheese croissant. Well, at least that’s what it feels like. They also have free wi-​fi here so take the time to sit on one of the wooden benches and surf the net while you eat. Just watch out for those quiches.

La Banette Patisserie contains so many small beauties, it’s hard to even know where to start. I will begin by saying that the establishment itself is as cute as a little button. With a Z-​shaped counter of pastry cases and a smattering of tables not even big enough to hold the Kardashian immediate family, it’s got that certain simplistic charm. Pop in on a weekday for afternoon tea, grab something sweet and flakey and cozy up with a good book.
I had a bit of a sweet tooth this afternoon (correction, EVERY afternoon), and so I dipped into La Banette for a browse. I nearly lost my cool somewhere near the croissant and the tart case, but pulled it together mid-​brownie browse. I swear they didn’t have to clean THAT much droll off the glass.
I settled on a mini fruit tart. It was so mini, in fact, that it only had space for one strawberry, one raspberry and one kiwi slice to perch on top. The fruit trio was positioned on light and fluffy vanilla custard and encompassed by a flakey and buttery pastry shell. I tried to slow myself down, I really did, but I wolfed that puppy down in about 4 bites. And like a flash, it was gone. It was like a hit and run, although I can’t be too sure who did the hitting. All I know is that I swear I’m innocent, and for the good of everyone involved I am going to keep my over-​indulgent self away from La Banette Patisserie as long as humanly possible. At least that’s what I’m telling the judge.

La Banette is just perfection. With the kitchen at the back and the shop at the front you’re left in no doubt about how fresh all the baked produce is.
And the baked produce… well, there’s savoury loaves of ever shape, size and combination available at a fairly low price. There are platters of beautiful looking sausage rolls (yes sausage rolls can look beautiful!) and two counters of pastries and cakes.
I wanted it all, and I was clearly not the first customer with this dilemma as they have all the pastries available in miniature form too so I was able to have an almond croissant and a pain au raisin without any guilt. There were heaven. My companion had a chocolate éclair and from all the sounds of ecstasy, I’m guessing she thought similar.
Eating there was a delight as everything is very rustic about the place, rough wood and bright yellow walls, it felt like a little drop of France, but there is also takeaway available. This’d make the perfect destination for a Sunday morning breakfast run.

Little French pattiserie on Glebe Point Road. Close to Parramatta Road this café has a very «under the French country sun» feel about it. They have some fantastic options to pick from. There are several quiches made with a country edge so that they feel hearty and full of flavour. There are also croissants for $ 2 and Brioche (sweet bread) for as little as $ 1.50 for a mini one. What I loved was a wave type biscuit. It was quite big and flat in the form of a wave and drizzled with chocolate. It’s a small café, so there aren’t many tables but the prices really reasonable for what you get. $ 4.50 supremo Vanilla Slice.

On entering La Banette, the hollow hole in my chest caused by post-​Parisian homesickness trembled in delight. Like a junkie in need of a fix, I threw myself at the patisserie, feeding my withdrawals with croissants and crème caramels.
With a distinctly rustic look that fits perfectly in Glebe Point Road’s café scene, the patisserie’s walls are lined with a variety of baguettes, sourdoughs, buns and dark loaves dusted with flour. Restored wooden saw-​horses double as tables and seats, and the tiny patisserie is frequently filled with the 20 — 30 people that it can accommodate. A far cabinet is filled with an imaginative array of quiches and pies all created in an adjoining bakehouse, but the aspect of La Banette that most affected my nostalgia lay behind the shiny glass cabinet that made up the L-​shaped counter — a cabinet filled with strawberry tartlets, mini pecan pies, coffee eclairs crowned with crisp toffee, crème caramels, tart au citron, pavlovas, apple and almond tarts and lemon meringue pies. Croissants, pain au chocolat and almond croissants surround creamy white meringues with the perfect balance of crisp and chew, biscotti, strudels and the most delicious coconut roughs I’ve ever tasted. And, if the choice is overwhelming, the windows also tempt with a box of 12 Petite Fours or a ‘Breakfast Box’ layered with assorted pastry perfections.
La Banette in Glebe makes my top three patisseries in Sydney’s Inner West. Up there with Balmain’s Adriano Zumbo (of Masterchef fame) and Surry Hills’ Bourke St Bakery, whilst La Banette is undoubtedly the least famed of the trio it is perhaps the tastiest of the lot. What’s more, you don’t have to line up for 20 minutes to order something that will be eaten within the next five. La Banette is charming and beautiful, the staff are friendly, le café est superb, and there is absolutely nothing pretentious about it. What’s more, it’s cheap enough to enjoy the flavours of France whilst saving for the real deal.