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Melbourne / Australia
This Melbourne chocolate maker hand-makes and hand-wraps organic bars, gianduja and confections in small batches, from single-origin tablets to salted-caramel boxes. Its online shop sells the range for delivery, alongside drinking chocolate and gift hampers.
Best for Hand-wrapped single-origin chocolate bars and salted-caramel boxes
Oxford / Online
Hervé Gatineau, trained in Toulouse and seasoned at Sydney's Laurent Bakery and London's Maison Blanc, opened his own Summertown, Oxford patisserie in 2007. The bakery makes bread, cakes and French pastries fresh daily, and has grown a wholesale arm supplying more than 30 sites from a Kidlington production kitchen.
Best for French-trained patissier's Oxford boulangerie, now wholesaling citywide
Hervé Gatineau trained as a pastry chef in Toulouse before working abroad, including a stint at Sydney's Laurent Bakery, then arrived in the UK in 1997 to work at Maison Blanc in London's Park Royal. He opened his own patisserie under his name in Oxford's Summertown neighborhood in 2007, bringing a French boulangerie-patisserie tradition, bread, cakes and pastries made fresh daily, to the city.
The retail shop remains the public face of the business, but Gatineau has built a substantial wholesale operation alongside it, now supplying bread and viennoiserie to more than 30 sites across Oxford from a dedicated production kitchen in nearby Kidlington. That expansion has moved much of the business's actual output away from the original Summertown storefront even as the shop itself continues to sell direct to customers.
Gatineau offers cake delivery around Oxford and takes orders through its online shop, giving customers two ways to reach a bakery whose day-to-day production increasingly serves other Oxford businesses as much as it serves walk-in customers.
Birdsville, Queensland, Australia
This Birdsville outback bakery bakes bread, cakes and pastries fresh on Billabong Boulevard, with its curried camel pie the signature order. Open seven days, it's a regular stop for travelers crossing the Simpson Desert.
Best for Curried camel pie in the Simpson Desert outback
Queanbeyan, New South Wales
Curtis Glass Art is the studio of Matthew Curtis and Harriet Schwarzrock, working from a converted biscuit factory at 114 Uriarra Road, Crestwood, Queanbeyan, where they melt their own colour and blow and cast glass into sculptural objects for exhibitions and commissions. Curtis works in kiln-formed and cast glass while Schwarzrock creates blown-glass vessels incorporating plasma illumination.
Best for Sculptural blown and cast glass
Perth / Australia
Kakulas Brothers is a specialty grocer established in 1929, retailing nuts, dried fruit, grains, spices, and confectionery from its William Street shop in Northbridge, Perth, with a separate wholesale arm on Wellman Street. Customers can shop in person or order through its online store.
Best for Specialty grocer, Nuts & Dried Fruit, Grains & Legumes, Confectionery
Glynburn Road, Adelaide
Robern Menz is the Adelaide confectioner behind FruChocs, the apricot-and-peach centres coated in chocolate, along with Crown Mints and Violet Crumble. The brand's heritage dates to 1850.
Best for FruChocs and classic South Australian confectionery
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