Pyney’s 🥧 Reviews
The Aussie Bakehouse
(Legian Bali)
August, 2026
The last 4 months has been absolutely crazy, so I decided to do a quick trip to Bali to have a few Bintang’s plus search for a few 🇦🇺 🥧 joints in and around the Kuta/Legian area.
On our first day of our arrival I was out doing a morning walk when an absolute legend named Adam bailed be up for a yarn. Adam has been a long time follower of the page and now lives in Bali. He gave me a few tips and told me to visit this place called The Aussie Bakehouse.
The Aussie Bakehouse is located about 50 or so metres down the road from the famous Y-Bar in Legian. It’s owned and operated on Aussie legend named Steve, who’s had this place for a few years. Steve’s originally from Mildura VIC and started his trade there many years ago. The baking trade has taken him all over the country and when the opportunity came up to open this shop in Bali he jumped at it.
Now opening up a bakery in Bali might sound easy and exciting, but the process has been extremely difficult. Getting the equipment like 🥧 tins, dough sheeters and rotal ovens has had it’s challenges. Once you’ve got the equipment sorted getting quality ingredients to put into the products was next hurdle. Most of these ingredients come offshore and as you can imagine this process is not a cheap.
The shop itself is quite small, but offers a terrific selection of 🇦🇺 bakery products. 🥧’s sausage rolls, pasties, chocolate eclairs, vanilla slices, croissants, and Steve’s famous bread that can be found at a number of wholesale outlets around Bali are all here. What makes the story even better, is that Steve has trained a number of Balinese ladies the art of baking and almost every item now baked in the shop is the ladies handiwork. This takes time and Steve has certainly done that and the products on display looked great.
Steve and the ladies have created a great little menu that includes all your 🇦🇺 bakery favourites. I decided to try a few 🥧’s, but for the purpose of this review, I went with the shops new “Chunky Steak 🥧” As you know this is one of my favourite flavours and I couldn’t wait to get started on this one.
🥧 THE REVIEW 🥧
1. Value for Money – 55,000K 🇮🇩 or $4.50 🇦🇺 was ridiculous value considering the 🥧 weighed around 265 grams. A very decent size in both depth and diameter which was pretty awesome. Overall, it doesn’t get much better than this, in my opinion, it’s too cheap. 10/10
2. Meat/Fill Ratio – Pics may be a little deceiving, but there was a decent number of meat chunks in this 🥧. 8/10
3. Flavour – The flavour was really nice. The meat chunks were fairly decent in size and scattered throughout the 🥧. The dark gravy sauce was really nice and complimented the meat beautifully. Nothing fancy just a really good chunky steak flavourer 🥧 8/10
4. Pastry – The first thing I noticed was the colour of his 🥧’s and gee wizz they all looked amazing. The girls have also done a fantastic job on the shape, shrinkage stability, all 3 aspects couldn’t be faulted. The top bake and it’s thickness wasn’t that far away, plus it tasted great as well. The bottom bake was too thick and had a very small wet line, this is a really easy fix. A couple of minor points to work on, but overall the girls have done a good job on this pastry 8/10
5. Serving Temperature – Perfect temp !!! 10/10
Overall Rating
🥧🥧 44/50 🥧🥧
Well done ladies, you have all done an outstanding job with this 🥧 and all the 🥧’s i sampled. The work you have done on the pastry really surprise me in particular the shrinkage, colour and stability. It can take years to learn this part of the pastry process and these girls have absolutely nailed it. The scores across the five categories were extremely consistent, but for me the price point was the stand out 55k or $4.50 on the current exchange rate is insanely priced. Well done girls this product and all the products I sampled were all of a high standard.
If you’re traveling to Bali and you love your meat 🥧’s this place is a must visit. Apart from the 🥧’s the other products tasted fantasic. Open 7 days a week, get in early to avoid disappointment.
Steve thank you so much for getting back to me and allowing me to share your incredible 🥧 journey. What you have created here in Bali is very special. What’s also special is the knowledge and expertise you have passed on to your staff. You have a awesome little team producing awesome products. To be able to come to Bali and grab a quality product like the ones in your bakery is pretty cool. Keep up the awesome work mate and thanks for the not so awesome hangover.
For all those who are travelling to Bali we stayed 3 nights at the Stones Marriott in Legian. Wonderful hotel, exceptionally clean, awesome pool and breakfast was sensational. The other 4 nights at the Lalasa Villias up at Changgu. Our private villia is stunning, the whole complex is beautiful. Both places are very different and both highly recommended.
As always thanks for the ongoing support and keep supporting 🇦🇺 bakeries and don’t forget to invite all your friends to the page.
