Newtown revisited - I never get sick of eating here!

Beautiful day. Sydney turned on its most glorious spring day for us. And the Sydney Marathon runners. Damned road closures all over the place - ended up looping to Randwick in order to get to Newtown! Alas, a little delay only made us more hungry! Not a bad thing, maybe.

Arriving at the lovely Bakerman's, just got a tad confused as this establishment appear to be a row of three shops open to each other - a pizzeria, Bakerman cafe, and an old bookshop. Sorry pizzeria, might have to visit you another time.

French toast with bacon and melons, chocolate eclaire, a couple of coffees. And a sweet corn fritter ... Its allowed because it's sweet, and that we had one corn fritter at our inaugural DDT at Bills.

Lovely fruity bread French toast drenched in maple syrup, with 2 succulent rolls of bacon, topped with fresh melons. Very lovely and hearty. The chocolate eclaire was fresh, light, creamy, chocolatey, heavenly. Sweet corn fritter was full of juicy corn kernels, it almost didn't hold the fritter together. Delicious coffee helped complete our breakfast.

As we were delayed thanks to the keen early-risers running around the city, we decided to skip Mak Mak. Well for good reason too. It's closed on Sundays. Next stop, Pie Tin!

We stepped in to this unassuming, rustic shop with pies sweet and savoury. The flavours all look exciting - something we must come back to, especially when I hear that the duck pie was spectacular!

The sweet pies - lemony lemon curd pie reminiscent of Bourke St Bakery lemon brulee tart, fragrant passionfruit curd pie with similar consistency (not as delicate as the Zumbo passionfruit tart but very delicious nonetheless), and a chocolate caramel pie with delicious bitter-sweet crumbly pie crust and devilishly decadent caramel filling! LOVE!

And what's this giant thing - The Pie That Ate Newtown? It was just such a surprise to see a pie tin that sized too! (See the 50c coin at the bottom right hand corner? That's our scale reference!!)

Cafe Shenkin's was our next quick stop for coffee. AHHH I have been here before! But last time I came, I saw no signs so didn't know its name, just that it was a good coffee worth coming back to. Lovely coffee, acidic and fresh. Should have bought a bag... maybe next time, when I return to pick up a pie.

Last stop, finishing on a high, Blackstars. We fell in love with its chocolate caramel "goo" tart on our first DDT here, and then their gorgeous canelles, the rose and watermelon cake (some consider this their all-time favourite dessert). What's new now? Lets try their "boozy" almond tart (a cross between almond croissant and brioche, laced with rum), or a salted caramel panna cotta (orgasmic... yes, I said it), as well as more of the old favourites because we must. And because there were no seats available at Blackstar, we devoured them under the sun on a lush green lawn.

Languidly we get up and leave.... with the prospect of sweets in 10 days time - Crave Festival is coming, and guess what - lets do desserts!!! :D