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Starlight Bakery

This bakery is a finalist for best bread and pastries in Good Food’s Essential Sydney Cafes and Bakeries of 2025.

Starlight Bakery sells traditional Filipino breads.
Starlight Bakery sells traditional Filipino breads.

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It’s not what you’d expect from a 25-year-old bakery near Doonside train station, but there it is: a mahogany-hued modernist space, oversized floral arrangement at its centre, selling savoury-sweet Filipino breads and pastries. The renovation is new, but the Filipino menu was a gradual takeover as original owners (the Aringo family) adjusted to community needs. Now helmed by Jeremiah Luya, the bakery combines tried-and-tested pandesal and cheese-dusted ensaymadas with new-wave additions including purple ube macapuno (coconut) cake.

Good to know: You can dine-in, pairing your pastry with a specialty coffee or iced matcha latte.

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Original URL: https://www.smh.com.au/goodfood/sydney-eating-out/starlight-bakery-20250526-p5m2d8.html