Mayfair Bakery And Patisserie

Best bakery by far! So much love goes into their food and the standard is always high. We always recommend Mayfairs to all our family and friends. The white choc and raspberry cheesecake is definately my favourite!

Best coffee in the Port, Best Sausage Rolls in Adelaide — PLUS a surprisingly great selection of sweet little pieces of happiness!
From their bearded barista to the super cool interior and coffee that would heal a cripple, I’m sure — once discovered — it will become a coveted spot for dessert-​ies and coffee lovers alike.

Mayfair bakery is a fantastic addition to the Port. It is a small venue, with a couple of little seats inside and out, but worth grabbing and then walking down to the river side to enjoy your pastries.
And enjoy you will. The pastries are golden, flaky and full of taste. They use real butter, not shortening or anything gross, so you won’t get «pasty mouth» — that residue that you get after eating a gross pasty that’s been sweating in a plastic packet.
The price is good — you’d probably get away with a pie/​pasty and sweet treat for under a tenner and you can feel good supporting a small family business at the same time.
Next time you’re ‘down the Port’ drop in to Mayfair for a savoury or sweet treat!

If you’re looking for a decent lunch that won’t break the bank and you’re in the Port, Mayfair Bakery is a great option.
Their standard bakery fare is a cut above the usual uninspired established players, with meat pies that have meat you can actually see (imagine that!), croissants that are light and buttery and a selection of sweet pastries that is superb.
If they paid more attention to the quality of the coffee I’d be giving Mayfair 5 stars, but it’s a solid 4 nonetheless.
Ps. Try the pistachio croissant — if everyone had a few of these we’d be closer to world peace.

I want badly for Port Adelaide to be worth visiting. I grew up not far from there and I moved away many years ago, disappointed with what a gangrenous limb the Port insisted on being. Every optimistic development was uninhabitable due to poisoned soil, and every interesting business was bankrupted by a thorough lack of community support.
Things, I understand, are changing.
There is a good fruit and veg market I hear. Some trendy hipster places opening up, many with the support of the godsend that is Renew Adelaide.
Also, there’s now this bakery place. I had a pie, because a pie is what you get from a bakery. I took a bite and inspected its innards, which is a risky move with any pie. Exposed between the sheets of really very good pastry was a beautiful chunk of steak divided along the grain of the meat and perfectly cooked and flavoured. 100 more bites into another 100 pies wouldn’t result in such a perfect visage of quality. I was going to take a photo but the pie was very tasty so I ate it instead.
Then I had a dessert which was difficult to pick. There was a pistachio croissant which I wanted carnally, but I decided on an apple and rhubarb tart instead which was better than Jesus. The dude that served us was pretty cool too.
I am a rabid advocate of the Yankalilla bakery and the Orange Spot at Glenelg, and Mayfair is easily as good as either of them.
Except maybe it’s better because what Mayfair offers is Port Adelaide as it really deserves to be: rustic, authentic, and a place I want to go back to.

You know you’re in for a good pasty when you take your first bite and half of the pastry floats down onto your plate. Flakey, crunchy and perfectly pepperily seasoned — my veggie pepper pasty was scrumptious on a cold Port Adelaide morning. It means they’ve used butter in their pastry and you’re onto a hidden gem.
This newly renovated and owned bakery is also very well laid out so you can sit and eat at their inside bench top or outside to avoid leaving crumbs everywhere. A modern and fresh interior with cool industrial lighting has been enough to take this place from corner shop to destination bakery.
We couldn’t help but order a Veneziano coffee, which was strong and really beautifully flavoured (I wish I knew what blend they were using as it was so different). And with ingredients like KI Honey, the hipster in me couldn’t avoid ordering a honey and pistachio baked cheesecake. It was dense, creamy and a great sweetness mixed with the slightly sour cheesecake.
Lovely service and still unknown to the general public, I’d get down here one seedy Saturday morning too and fill up on baked goods!

This is the newest little gem to hit my near hood and it’s a little gem! A true little patisserie that uses butter in their croissants… The only way a true French one should be made! They have hazelnut, almond and pistachio which all sell for $ 4.50. Or you can grab yourself a plain one for $ 3. They also have a great range of little cakes and tarts in lucid your modem flavours and a few old schools ones!
You can grab a pasty, sausage roll, meat pie and few other additions I can’t recall sorry! But they all look yummy! Grab a coffee and your set for drive down to the beach!

Mayfair Cakes is the only business remaining from a once busy shopping strip on St Vincent Street in Port Adelaide. Once surrounded by butchers, greengrocers and other small businesses from the pre-​West Lakes and pre-​Port Mall period.
What’s more, the proprietor, Barry Schultz, has been baking goods there since the 1960s when he inherited the bakery from his father.
The shopfront itself is a work of art from another era, worth checking out for its classic signage.
The pies and pasties aren’t bad, although the sausage rolls are still rubbish. The real talent of Barry and his loyal ladies lies in baking cakes. Adelaide’s best spnoge cakes, in fact, as advertised by the ancient display-​only wedding cake behind the curved glass display window by the door.
Practice makes perfect, one assumes.
Update June 2014:
Barry has finally retired. I’ve heard the shop is still operating as a bakery under the new ownership, but I haven’t yet sampled their wares.