Chopin Patisserie & Cafe

Best vanilla slices in Perth for the price: $ 3.50. Chopin are my local bakery but I’ve been searching for a long time to find a vanilla slice that beats theirs. They call them Aussie vanilla slices, so be sure to ask for the right one.
Chopin also do quite good meat pies, yummy cakes (their honey and ginger cake is a unique and delicious flavour), good slices, great croissants and quite good bread. It’s been run by the same family for as long as I can remember and they are all lovely. If you are a regular and you go late in the day, you sometimes get complimentary baked goods.

This is one of those nice neighbourhood bakeries, providing a nice selection of freshly baked breads. The big draw for this place is their sweets, their Polish donuts are some of the best I have had and their cookies are delicious, definetly a guilty pleasure of mine. It has a pleasant enough atmosphere, but I am not particularly inclined to sit and eat there most of the time, they are the sort of treats I prefer to eat whilst sitting on my couch.

Chopin’s sounds quite menacing for a bakery but once you get past that fact and actually enter the store you are pleasantly surprised by the smell of bread and sickly sweet sugary cakes. The Polish Donuts are seriously good and a great snack and you can sit at the tables and enjoy your treat eat on the go. They have a great range of cakes you can pre-​order or buy at the counter. What I love about this place is you can buy yesterday’s bread there for 50 cents HAHA it sounds stingy… but I’m on a budget it honestly tastes like $ 4 bread so why not.

Always busy during weekday lunch time. It has a big range of sweet and savoury pastries, sandwiches and cakes. They are open early for breakfast and you get piping hot sausage rolls and pies. The cakes are not cheap and are okay, nothing exciting.

I’m a big fan of Polish bread, with its long-​lasting flavour and lead-​like density. And I’m a big fan of birthday cakes, too, even if my tendency is to admire them more than it is to eat them. Chopin’s takes orders and usually appears pretty busy fulfilling them. The fact that they receive so many seems to confirm what my eyes already suspected: that these elaborate and mouth-​watering creations are every bit as good as they look.
I’m still not sure that I’m sold on the idea of Polish croissants, however. It may sound childish to say so, but they taste funny. Which is to say that they’re not what I’m used to. Chopin’s croissants are more like bread than pastry, not to mention sickly sweet, in a way that seems at odds with everything the majority of us know or have been told about this foodstuff. Every time I eat one of the things, my first few bites are full of trepidation. Eventually I get into the swing of things, of course, and the decent coffee helps to calm my jangled nerves, but that trepidation never goes away. Whoever said that variety was the spice of life probably wasn’t talking about pastries.