REDFERN: “This is my favourite bread shop,” says one customer waiting to place her order at PT Crown Bakery in George Street. “I can’t believe it’s closing. This is really sad.”
After 20 years in business, Tovi and Bun have decided to sell their bakery equipment – ovens, racks, chillers – and make a fresh start somewhere else. “The rent is too high,” Tovi says. “It gets higher every year.”
Bun and Tovi work long hours, six days a week. All the bread (preservative- and sugar-free, white, wholemeal, sesame-seed) is baked on the premises. So too the cream-buns and lamingtons, chocolate eclairs and vanilla slices. There are fresh pies, too, sausage rolls and spinach pastries.
Customers rave about the sandwiches and rolls – fresh chicken and tuna, egg, ham, tomato, cheese and all the trimmings. “The rolls are filled with the freshest salad items, delicious herbs and spices,” another customer says. “Tovi puts so much into each one.”
“I’ll just miss them so much,” says a man with a Rabbitohs cap. “They’ve been here day after day, working so hard and always friendly. It’s good to stop and chat, even if we just share a few words and a smile.”
