Overview
What started as a lockdown pop-up is now getting a permanent home in the Inner West, with the team behind Ragazzi, Fabbrica and Love, Tilly Devine announcing a brand new bricks-and-mortar bakery is bound for Rozelle this August.
Back in 2021, Sydneysiders were pining after any treat they could get their hands on as they stuck out a four-month lockdown. During this time the Love, Tilly Group was one of many Sydney favourites that made a pivot to something a little different and more takeaway-friendly, utilising its King Street pasta and wine shop as a bakery on weekends which they coined Fabbrica Bread Shop.
Following the success of this limited-time venture, the crew is setting up a permanent shop for takeaway and dine-in feeds inside an expansive new Maloneys Grocer on the Rozelle end of Darling Street later this winter.
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The sunlit 24-seat venue will be headed up by a pair of bread, pastry and dessert experts — Love Tilly Group's Head Baker Aniruddha Bhosekar and Fabbrica Pasta Shop's Alyce Bennett (formerly Humble Bakery). Raised in Thane, Bhosekar was trained at Mumbai's oldest hospitality institute, bringing this wealth of hospitality experience to create a one-of-a-kind slate of bakery items.
Carry-over champions from the pop-up including pork and fennel sausage rolls, chocolate-filled bomboloni and banoffee tarts will be joined by exciting new additions. The masala croissants will be loaded with spiced dosa potatoes, and vindaloo pies will be on offer filled with goat direct from the Gourmet Goat Lady.
Further down the Fabbrica Bread Shop menu you can expect fluffy focaccia, a daily lineup of sandwiches, pillowy maritozzi, chocolate and custard tarts and sticky buns — alongside a drinks list made up of The Little Marionette coffee for your morning caffeine fix as well as beer, wine and spritzes for lunchtime catch-ups.
Keeping loyal to its name, there will also be plenty of loaves of freshly baked bread on offer including a signature sourdough that uses three different flours from Wholegrain Milling in Gunnedah and requires over 24 hours of proofing.
This will mark the third addition to the Fabbrica family, joining the CBD provisions store and wine bar, and the recently opened Fabbrica Pasta Bar Balmain.
"Fabbrica Bread Shop takes the Fabbrica experience into the suburban sunshine," says Love Tilly Group co-owner Matthew Swieboda.
"It's everything you want in a great local bakery, whether you're picking up a bag full of still-warm pastries to enjoy in the park on a relaxed weekend morning, nabbing a spot by the window for a light lunch with mates or just swinging by to pick up another loaf of excellent sourdough for home."
Fabbrica Bread Shop will open at Maloneys Grocer, 733 Darling Street, Rozelle in August.