Palace Pantry

The Palace Pantry is exactly the kind of corner shop you want on your block.
A café-​come-​corner-​store-​come-​bakery, The Palace Pantry is fitted with old country house furnishings, from long wooden tables to chicken-​wired cabinets, with bookshelves hosting hand-​crafted odds and ends, including dolls, teddys and brooches.
The menu was brief but covered all your favourites, most with the added option of ‘plus haloumi’. The french toast was only $ 8, and whilst the big breakfast hiked up to $ 18, it was a pretty big plate filled with pretty big portions.
My main confusion came with the fact that the café specialises in gluten-​free cakes, thus recognising the prevalence of gluten intolerance, and yet they don’t provide a gluten free option on their menu. This is a minor matter, hardly worth mentioning, just a little confusing.
The Pantry is extremely cute, the corner-​store counter filled with lollies, chocolate bars, their own ‘famous sherbert’ and home made chocolates (in ghostly halloween themed shapes). They also sell cold drinks and ice-​creams, and their kitchen pumps out fresh bread, pies, and other sweet treats. Whilst I’m not willing to move house for it, I’d be delighted to find it my neck of the woods.

The Palace Pantry is a quaint little café/​cornershop combination tucked away in the back streets of Petersham. Stocking a lot of the essential household kitchen items that you discover you’ve run out of just as you need them, in my mind, I equate this little gem with a general store in the old West. The interior is decorated in a rustic fashion and it feels like stepping through a time warp.
I stumbled across this café while on the way to play basketball and was rewarded with a glass of freshly squeezed orange juice to sate my thirst. The café sells a range of take away items like pies and sausage rolls, so if you’re local and looking to grab a snack, this is one of your few options this side of the train tracks or across Parramatta Road. And if you’re a kid with allowance burning a hole in your pocket (firstly, congratulations on logging on to the Internet and finding your way to Unilocal), Palace Pantry has an impressive range of candy and lollies.