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The 8 best bakery stops on the Fleurieu
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The 8 best bakery stops on the Fleurieu

Pies, pasties, sourdough and one whale-shaped donut - the peninsula's bakeries, ranked by people who research thoroughly

The bakery doctrine

A position we hold without embarrassment: the bakery stop is structural to a Fleurieu day, not optional. Every classic route on the peninsula - the coast run to the ferry, the Goolwa to Victor Harbor loop, the wine-country wander - passes at least one serious bakery, and the correct number of stops is one per leg.

The peninsula's baking splits into two schools. The country classicists deal in pies, pasties and vanilla slice, with Port Elliot Bakery as the standard-bearer. The new wave is sourdough-led, and it radiates from Home Grain Bakery at Aldinga. Both schools are represented below. Both are correct.

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    Port Elliot Bakery
    Port Elliot

    Port Elliot Bakery

    The benchmark. A long-loved country bakery a short walk from Horseshoe Bay, famous for pies, pasties and a vanilla slice with a genuine state-wide reputation. The queue out the door on summer weekends is part of the experience.

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    Aldinga & Port Willunga

    Home Grain Bakery

    Headquarters of the Fleurieu's sourdough movement: a family-owned artisan bakery whose loaves, pies and pastries built a following strong enough to spawn outposts at McLaren Flat and Middleton. Arrive early; leave with more than you planned.

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    Normanville & Yankalilla

    Yankalilla Bakery

    The legendary stop on the Main South Road run to Cape Jervis - an award-winning country bakery whose vanilla slice and pasties have broken the resolve of generations of ferry-bound travellers.

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    Victor Harbor

    Ocean Street Bakehouse

    Victor Harbor's award-winning family bakery, and home of the whale-shaped donut - which sounds like a gimmick until you watch a six-year-old meet one in whale season. The pies hold their own with anything on this list.

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    Port Elliot

    Home Grain Bakery Middleton

    The surf-coast outpost of the Aldinga original, strategically positioned for Middleton's surfers and the Goolwa weekend crowd. Same sourdough, same pies, beach-town queue.

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    Myponga & Second Valley

    Myponga General Store & Bakery

    A classic country bakery and general store in one, on the main road through dairy country - the honest, unfussy mid-drive stop the west coast run was missing. Pair with a look over the Myponga Reservoir wall.

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    McLaren Vale

    Home Grain Bakery McLaren Flat

    The wine-country branch of the Home Grain empire, and the smart morning move before a day of cellar doors: coffee, a pastry, and a loaf in the boot for tomorrow's breakfast.

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    Port Elliot

    Jetty Food Store

    The wildcard: part providore, part licensed cafe on Port Elliot's main street, with a courtyard out the back and shelves of Fleurieu produce. Not strictly a bakery - but the baked goods and the coffee earn the spot.

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Field notes: country bakeries sell out of the good things by early afternoon, especially on weekends and public holidays. Morning people eat better. This is the closest thing to a law the Fleurieu has.

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