Woolloomooloo favourite Flour and Stone is loved among locals and visitors alike for its top-notch pastries, delicious sandwiches and overall simple comfort food. Its counter treats are baked daily and change regularly, with sweet pastries like salted caramel and chocolate tarts and blueberry scones sat next to leek and gruyère tarts and beetroot and goats cheese tarte tatin. If you're after something more substantial, there's also a range of freshly made sandwiches — think ham, gruyere and chill jam or chicken and avocado on ciabatta — plus plenty of gourmet meat pies and sausage rolls to tuck into.

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