Often on a Sunday (and who am I kidding, Saturday too) I wake up wanting nothing else then a fresh pastry and a coffee. This has become a little weekend tradition of sorts for L and I. We have ventured out to quite a few Sydney bakeries and last weekend decided to try out Infinity Sourdough in Paddington. For starters, the beautiful interior is well worth the visit. High white ceilings with decorative ceilings, copper piping, those retro black sandwich boards with the white letters, polished concrete floors and scattered plants throughout. It was a bit of a Pinterest delight! Not to mention the glass cabinets were overflowing with croissants the size of footballs, salted caramel brownies, pear danishes and love heart shaped pretzels. We both shared a pumpkin, feta and chickpea sausage roll and an almond croissant. It was so exciting to try a bakery that made a vegetarian sausage roll that wasn't the tired and done spinach and feta version and boy was it good! The almond croissant was quite easily the largest almond croissant I have seen so far! Some bakeries put the almond filling on the inside, this filling was on the top and it made for an excellent crunchy crust while letting the croissant-y layers do their soft thing on the inside. Also, their barista was awesome. It was super hot on Sunday so short blacks on ice was needed. The barista brought us over a standard short black espresso on ice and then he brought us over a cold press coffee on ice so we could try both and taste the difference, what a legend! The cold press was definitely our favourite, so much smoother on the palate than the heat extracted coffee. I could have stayed there all morning but alas things need to get done on a Sunday. I'm sure it won't be long until we're back!
Infinity Sourdough, 178 Oxford Street, Paddington, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
