Tapeo Bakery

Decent place to get get breakfast. Coffee good and hot. Also a good spot to people watch and take in all the crazy smackheads that redfern has to offer. If you’re lucky they’ll come up to you and ask for money.

A friend and I went to the café next door based on my excitement of popping into the bakery afterwards.
The bakery is compact and items well placed. It ranges from small treats, to mini loaf cakes, breads and savoury pasties. I’m sure there’s a few more, but we were distracted by the items being incorrectly marked and the server’s total disinterest in us or helping us in explaining some of the unmarked, or incorrectly marked, items.
I eventually just settled for an item that was named and priced, the lemon polenta cake ($ 5.50) and took it as a takeaway.
Once home, I put in on a plate to share it with my partner, and I noticed the underside was burnt. After cutting off the burnt section, we did enjoy the lemon polenta cake.
I’ll give this bakery another change, for their variety and also because they serve Toby’s coffee (my favourite). Hopefully the staff member will have become more interested in the products by then.

Tapeo — Redfern’s hybrid tapas-​bar-​slash-​café — has been dominating the corner of Chalmers & Redfern Streets for some time now, but as of a few weeks ago — they now have a bakery.
Tapeo Bakery is next door to Tapeo, allowing the business to make use of an ample amount of street front seating, rounding the corner in front of both shops. If you’re sitting outside you can order from the Tapeo main menu, even if you’re sitting outside the little bakery.
The bakery itself is a humble affair. Counter service only; with two young guys working there. The bakery has decent looking loaves on sale (soy & linseed, sourdough, olive sourdough, fruit, etc), already packaged up in paper bags, sitting in rustic wooden boxes. The bread seems to be selling well. I’s a great addition to the neighbourhood, considering the closest gooooood bakery is down on Botany Rd (Wild Cockatoo
). The Nearby Quirks has alright bread too but they’re not strictly a bakery.
Tapeo Bakery is a nice little coffee spot in and of itself. It’s not very big, and doesn’t have a lot of seating inside, but if you’re lucky enough to get a spot, you can order Toby’s Estate coffee, have croissants, muffins & other baked goods, and they also do toasted sandwiches. Actually, that’s one of the main reasons I gave this place a 4: the toasted sandwiches were damn impressive — very generous servings, fresh ingredients, and good bread. Think: large pieces of chicken, spicy tomato, lashings of olive tapenade, marinated eggplant. That sort of thing.
This place is cosy, but not the kind of place you’d want to hang out in for hours. And if you want a big meal, you’ll have to go to Tapeo itself for that, the bakery only does the small stuff.