St Honore Sourdough Bakery

A fantastic place for breakfast. The food is fresh and tasty and the serving sizes are plenty full.
I’d recommend a bacon and egg roll with bbq sauce. Heaps of perfectly cooked bacon and a perfectly cooked egg. Their eggs benny is pretty good too!
The only let down is that there’s no outdoor seating.

This place is always packed at lunch and now I know why. It all starts with the bread — and the bread is superb. I had the soup of the day (tomato with a squirt of pesto) which came with two slices of toasted bread and a ham and swiss cheese sandwich which came on a baguette. Both were really good, simply because the bread was so good. In today’s age of carb paranoia and gluten free fanatics, it is wonderful to see a place that celebrates one of the most basic and essential delicious foods — BREAD!

Great local French bakery with dine in available for brunch or lunch (they sell out quick, so the earlier the better!). The quality of the bread & pastries is amazing for the price and definitely great value for something located on the Lower North Shore.
St Honore are all about the sour dough and with so many varieties, sizes & shapes, you definitely can’t go wrong. Any time I’m headed out to a BBQ or dinner, I drop into St Honore and grab some sour dough dinner roll goodness without FAIL! Crusty, slightly chewy on the outside, then soft fluffy bread on the inside… always a win with the crowd.
I visit often for brunch and can’t go past the ham & cheese croissant. Delicate, flaky & buttery croissant filled with double smoked ham & melty gruyère cheese. For my more piggish days, I’ll also grab the Croque Monsieur (AKA grilled ham & cheese sandwich with thick sour dough slices).
The cakes on offer look great and delicious to boot. So go ahead, grab a Dark & White Chocolate Mousse cake, treat your taste buds and those of the people lucky enough to be around you at the time.
Also don’t forget to try their awesome meat pies and sausage rolls. Apart from Paddy’s Pies, there really isn’t much else around the Lower North Shore for kick ass Aussie staples. St Honore uses their expertise in making great pastry and fills them with tasty & quality ingredients.

Incredible fruit buns — but you have to get in early or they’re sold out, as we’ve discovered all too often lingering late on a Sunday.
The balance is a bit wrong for me at St Honore — there’s a heap of table space, which is modestly frequented, but a relatively small counter, presenting the true glory of what this dedicated sourdough bakery specialist has to offer. I’m not really tempted to dine in, but I would happily fill my grocery bag each week with sourdough bread, macaroons, sausage rolls, wee pastries and croissants to take home. And fruit buns, of course.
Sorry, big bakery chains. You don’t come close.

The clean, dark décor of St Honore borders on functional for my tastes; I’d prefer something a little more shabby chic for my authentic Parisian experiences but don’t let the décor but you off (that really is me nit-​picking).
Priding themselves on their Sourdough creations, Hany and the team are on the money with their offering. A bakery/​café with too many delicious breads to list but the sourdough Levain is particularly scrumptious and often graces our table at the weekend to be carved up with cheese and meats.
If you pop in for breakfast there are any number of authentic French pastries to tempt, served with your chosen blend of coffee. For lunch, the Tarragon Chicken Baguette is a personal favourite with its generous smearings of real egg mayonnaise. Naughty! No meal would be complete, of course, without a Salted Caramel macaroon or a sample size of the cakes that can be bought for a couple of dollars with a coffee.
It’s very easy to part with cash in this place and it isn’t cheap but the quality, great service and the ensuing visits, mean you might need to part your trousers in order to accommodate your ever expanding waistline.