Heavenly Crescents: Where to Find Sydney's Best Croissants

Whether you’re a savoury fan or have a sweet tooth, everyone has a pastry habit that needs nurturing. Lucky for us, Sydney is home to some of the best bakeries around, rolling out thousands of croissants each week. 

There truly is nothing quite like one of these freshly baked, buttery beauties to kick-start your day. From picture-perfect patisseries to humble neighbourhood bakehouses, here’s where you’ll find the best croissants in Sydney.

Lode Pies & Pastries 

LODE is an icon on the Sydney pastry scene so if you haven't yet sampled their goods, we recommend making a move. They have perfected their viennoiserie (the art of layering butter and dough) game. Their filled croissants are made using exclusively house-made creams, ganache, jams and preserves. You simply can't go past their perfected Pain Au Chocolat but if you fancy something a bit extra, the Chocolate and Hazelnut and the Yuzu Croissants are out of this world. 

Surry Hills & Circular Quay 

Oh My Days

This one goes out to all the vegans who still crave a pastry hit! Plant-based patisserie Oh My Days offers up the goods when it comes to baked delicacies and you can find them at multiple markets each weekend as well as in their permanent Glebe home. Their Insta-worthy croissant wheels are a particular specialty and include favourites such as Lotus Biscoff, raspberry rose, and lychee and matcha white choc. They've also got plenty of savoury options so be sure to swing by to sample just how good a vegan croissant can be! 

99 Glebe Point Road, Glebe (check socials for market stall locations)

Loulou Boulangerie

Even if you did happen to miss the bright blue awning and charming French-inspired decor, the scents of Loulou Boulangerie’s freshly baked treats are sure to guide you straight to a table. Part bistro, traiteur and beautiful boulangerie, it’s a mecca for all things French cuisine. While anything you order is guaranteed to be good, here, the croissants reign supreme and are baked consistently throughout the day. 

61 Lavender Street, Milsons Point 

We Are Flour 

Southern Sydney folk, you're some lucky ducks. We Are Flour's croissants are growing in renown by the day. Made fresh each day in their onsite dough room, you can even watch the bakers get on with the day whilst nibbling on a flakey, buttery croissant. Fair warning: you probably won't be able to stop at one. 

277 Willarong Road, Caringbah 

Rollers Bakehouse

Rollers baker James Sideris does not mess around when it comes to rolling out experimental (and at times insane) flavour combos of their elite-level croissants. You could play it safe with a plain or pain au chocolate or dive in headfirst with the likes of whipped parmesan and pickle or jamon, Manchego cheese & pear. 

19 Rialto Lane, Manly Beach

Crescent Croissanterie 

For the flakiest pastries North of the bridge, head to Crescent Croissanterie where their freshly baked croissants sell out daily. If you're a fan of fun flavours, this is the bakery for you. Rotating with the season, you can expect inventive combos from yuzu, honey and lemon to tiramisu, on top of all the classics, of course. 

2/134 Willoughby Road, Crows Nest 

Threefold

Next up on your pastry pilgrimage is Threefold, a bustling croissant-centric bakery in Paramatta Square. Folded to perfection, you’ll find tried and true classics – plain, almond, chocolate - alongside drool-worthy specialty flavours that make it impossible to walk out with just one. Fan favourites have included peanut butter brownie, honey cream and fig and coconut raspberry. If you’re in the mood for something savoury, opt for the three-cheese croissant with smoked leg ham, cheese, mustard, and a sprinkle of pickled chilli.

Parramatta Square, 404/12 Darcy Street, Parramatta

Goose Bakery

Run by two former Bourke Street Bakery chefs, this cosy little bakery is right at home in the Forest Lodge foodie hub. The Goose Bakery duo starts baking at 2am, so you’re treated to buttery soft, flaky croissants. If it’s your first visit, go straight for the signature pastry: a golden coconut croissant topped with toasted coconut flakes.

38 Ross Street, Forest Lodge

Brickfields

This corner café-slash-bakery in Chippendale is bustling every day thanks to its Mecca coffee, artisan bread and melt-in-your-mouth pastries. Brickfields’ croissants are delightfully crispy, and buttery, and often sell out early. Since you deserve to treat yourself, get the decadent chocolate almond croissant infused with a brandy, cinnamon, and frangipane filling. It’s out of this world.

Chippendale & Marrickville 

Flour & Stone

When you’re in Woolloomooloo, drop into Flour & Stone for one of the best croissants in Sydney. The texture of this tiny bakery’s croissants set it apart: the almond is firm and crunchy, while the pain au chocolate is generously filled with three sticks of Valrhona chocolate. As for the original, it’s dense yet smooth, with beautiful buttery layers.

53 Riley Street, Woolloomooloo

Humble Bakery

Humble Bakery’s gloriously golden pastries are consistently hailed as one of the best croissants in Sydney for a reason. Picture endless layers crafted with butter and paper-thin dough to create a croissant that’s both crispy and yielding all at once. From chocolate and almond to ham and cheese, Humble’s neat assortment of flavours satisfy both sweet and salty cravings while creative turns are realised through the likes of their devilish banana old-fashioned cruffins. A must-try for sure.

Surry Hills & Circular Quay 

Banksia Bakehouse

Armed with an impressive repertoire of creative confections, Banksia Bakehouse is also renowned for its scrumptious array of flaky fine layered croissants. Swaying away from tradition, this stylish CBD patisserie-come-cafe has something for both the savoury and sweet inclined, rolling out flavour combos are as unique as they are delicious. We’re talking the likes of cheese and vegemite, Croque Monsieur, twice-baked banoffee and mojito. Alongside the weird and wonderful, croissant connoisseurs have their pick of the classics, from plain and almond to bi-coloured beauties filled with chocolate cream or strawberry.

Grosvenor Place, 225 George Street

Sonoma

This family-run empire has a well-earned reputation across Sydney for baking and delivering delicious, crusty breads and sweet treats. For now, though, we are only interested in their croissants - for sweet tooths, the syrup-soaked, twice-baked almond croissant is a triumph. For savoury lovers, Sonoma’s gypsy ham, Swiss cheese and bechamel croissant is perfection.

Multiple locations across Sydney 

Black Star Pastry

Black Star may be famous for their strawberry watermelon cake, but they also consider croissants to be “a staple of a sensible diet.” We’d have to agree! Black Star Pastry’s croissants are beautifully buttery and flaky, made with cultured butter courtesy of Pepe Saya. The chocolate croissant includes Calleabut dark chocolate for a très bien result.

Newtown, Rosebery, CBD, Moore Park

La Renaissance Café

In The Rocks, this family-run bakery sells over 1000 almond croissants per week – so you know they’re delicious! In true French style, La Renaissance Café’s pastries are deliciously buttery with a crunchy outer coated in almonds and icing sugar. If you’re a savoury fan, the ham and cheese croissant filled with creamy béchamel sauce will hit the spot.

47 Argyle Street, The Rocks

Infinity Bakery

To satisfy your croissant craving in Darlinghurst, Manly and Homebush, go to Infinity Bakery. The croissants are handmade on-site using traditional techniques and top-notch ingredients. They’re also huge, so you’ll be set until lunch. Our pick is the almond croissant, a slightly crispy pastry dressed in almond slivers and icing sugar, which reveals soft, buttery folds when pulled apart.

Darlinghurst, Manly, Homebush 

Loving our pick of the best croissants in Sydney and looking for more baked delicacies? Check out our article on the best desserts in Sydney worth saving room for and, the best cake shops in Sydney.