Pyney’s 🥧 Reviews
Wild Rye’s Baking Co
(Pambula NSW)
This whole South Coast area is absolutely stunning and I encourage anyone who hasn’t done this area to jump in the car and start exploring. Our next stop was Pambula and the famous Wild Rye’s Baking Co. This bakery has been on my bucket list for sometime and I was pretty excited to finally be here and was meeting owners Todd and Matt.
The bakery itself has been in existence since the early 1900’s but Wild Rye’s Baking Co was founded 20 years ago. Todd was a greese monkey for many years and one day woke up and decided he wanted to open up a bakery. Then in 2014 Matt (baker and chef) joined the partnership and the place has gone from strength to strength.
For a small town this bakery is a serious operation, open six days a week and employing over 50 staff !! now that’s incredible. On top of that the boys recently acquired the heritage listed building next door. After extensive renovations, the building is now suitable for weddings, fuctions and private gatherings.
The bakery itself was absolutely pumping the day of my visit, the line up was 10 deep and this was apparently a quiet day. There is a huge selection of sourdough breads, focaccias, pizza breads and other sweet and savory items. After getting the very impressive tour of the joint it was time to get down to business and get this review started.
The baking team have created an excellent range of traditional and gourmet flavoured 🥧’s. There is in fact 13 flavours to choose from which will cater for everyone’s tastes buds. After a close look at the menu, I decided to go with the classic steak, bacon and cheese 🥧. From the moment it came out of the warmer I knew I’d made the right decision.
🥧 THE REVIEW 🥧
1. Value for Money – $6.50 in my opinion represented terrific value considering the 🥧 was a decent size and weighed in well above industry standard. With the rising costs of products it’s getting more rare to find a 🥧 of this size and quality. 9.5/10
2. Meat/Fill Ratio – Excellent meat and fill ratio. This 🥧 was totally jammed packed. 10/10
3 Flavour – Easily up there with the best I’ve had. The chunky steak was super tender, the bacon was evident and the mozzarella cheese was fantastic. I could crap on and on how good the flavour was, but I won’t, well done team the flavour was magic 10/10
4. Pastry – Apart from the top and bottom bakes being slightly under done the pastry was near perfect. The color, shape, stability were all top notch and the pastry flavour was devine. The bake thicknesses were also very good, nothing to worry about here. Overall a minor blemish with the bakes, which could have easily been a once off, but apart from that the pastry was of a very high standard. 8.5/10
5. Serving Temperature – Perfect !!! No issues.
Overall Rating
🥧🥧 48/50 🥧🥧
This was literally a bee’s dick away from the perfect 🥧. From the price point to the flavour and pastry everything about it was quality. I will say this was easily in my top 3 “steak cheese & bacon” 🥧’s I’ve had. The flavour was amazing and lasted to the very end. Not much to work on only a few small points, but overall a sensational product and one I highly recommend. The Thai chicken curry 🥧 was also next level and from all reports is one of the best sellers. The baking team have nailed these 🥧’s and most importantly the flavour in these 🥧’s.
100% add this famous south coast bakery and little town to your travel plans. Pambula and Pambula Beach is simply stunning and offers so much. The bakery has got ample seating out the front as well as a beautifully manicured grass area next door available for use. This is one area i will be coming back to very soon.
To Todd, Matt, and all the bakery staff thank you so much for showing me around and for your incredible hospitality. This is a bakery I’ve wanted to visit for so long and it didn’t disappoint. You guys are serious operators running a serious business and you should be extremely proud of your efforts. Just two ripping lads having a crack and it’s awesome to see. The community of Pambula are extremely lucky to have a bakery like yours operating, but also offering employment to many locals including the young generation seeking their first jobs. Great to meet you both and we will catch up at a footy game this year for a 🥧 and 🍺
As always thanks for the ongoing support and keep supporting 🇦🇺 bakeries and don’t forget to invite all your friends to the page.
