Textbook Boulangerie Patisserie – Gorgeous, Creative Cakes At Alexandria, Sydney
Feature - Review, Food - Cafe, Overseas - Australia
August 02, 2016
Though I visit Sydney as a yearly affair, the new cafes, patisseries and restaurants continue to both amaze and excite. Case in point – Textbook Boulangerie Patisserie. This is not saying I don’t love Adriano Zumbo or Black Star anymore. I still do. But the new kids on the block (Textbook, KOI Dessert Bar) deliver their goods with some perfection, quality and Instagram-worthiness can that propel a thousand likes and life-changing moments. The patisserie is located at the ground level of some flats at Alexandria – not quite a place you would have expected. Entering, you might just......
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