There are parts of Botany Road in Redfern that are like a shopfront cemetery filled with empty display windows or long-shut doors. So you instantly notice when a once-vacant space starts showing vital signs, encouraging proof of a new existence.
I came across Wild Cockatoo Bakery on the weekend, when it had been open for only "three and a half days". It is run by a lovely gent by the name of Ray, who has been mostly based overseas but has worked at Brasserie Bread and Bourke Street Bakery on his return to Australia.
He likes baking so much that he even has a commercial oven in his garden, to make loaves for his friends.
The bread and treats at Wild Cockatoo are baked in a more conventionally located space. And its shelves feature pies, quite a few sourdough varieties, croissants studded with Belgian chocolate (all gone by the time I turned up, sadly) and a few fruit tarts (pear poached in shiraz and lemon-cured plum were the ones on offer that day). I especially liked the fragrant and sweet Apple Galette ($3.50).
Ray was surprised by the keen demand and explained that more savouries and sourdough loaves will be added to the line-up. Judging from the many people who crowded into the bakery in the short time I was there including the older couple who cutely identified themselves as "breadies" there will be just as many visitors keen on walking away with a bag of she! lf-liber ated goods.
Wild Cockatoo Bakery, 30 Botany Road, Redfern
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