Hawkesbury restaurants

Restaurants and Café in Historic Windsor

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Australia's Outback Bakehouse

Australia's Outback Bakehouse Address: Cnr Baker & George Streets
Phone: 02 4577 2077
Hours: Daily 7am-5pm

In 2010, Windsor welcomed the delicious savouries and sweets of master baker Rob Pirina, also the proprietor of the famous Glenorie Bakery Café in the Hills District (which received the 2011 Greater Sydney Tourism Award). His Bakehouse sits on the most prominent corner of Windsor - next to the paddlewheel.

Proof of our luck came when the Outback was selected among five Daily Telegraph winners for 2011's 'Best Pies in Sydney'. Locally, Rob's Flabbit Pie gets press - the media loves a legend and the folks around town love the Flabbit myth as well as the Flabbit Pie! We won't disclose the ingredients here.

The Bakehouse has big European-style tables for sharing freshly ground coffee and delectable breakfast sweets any time of the day.

We love the apple and walnut loaf - a delicate and lightly sweetened pastry.

Displays in the Bakehouse make everything too tempting and when a wonderful aroma fills the shop and wafts out into The Mall, discipline is demanded - perhaps only for today!

Restaurant 22

Australia's Outback Bakehouse Address: 22 Fitzgerald Street
Phone: 02 4577 5422
Hours: Tues-Sun 11.30am-10pm (lunch and dinner)
Wheelchair access

A recent addition to the upmarket scene in Windsor is Restaurant 22. Reviewed in the Daily Telegraph (12 July 2011), by the foodie critic Simon Thomsen, our young chef Jarryd Faint received quiet but solid praise along with a helping of wise advice. The menu is tweaked weekly - no mean feat - keeping locals enthused about returning.

While the setting is not as sophisticated as some, the ambience is warm and welcoming. These new owners - it is a family affair - have a vision and we are confident they will gain a loyal clientele and be very successful. The menu reigns (as it should); the setting can follow.

The menu definitely is sophisticated and the presentations are beautiful - Dale O'Grady oversees each plate. Fortunately, we faced a modest number of select menu choices.

We won't go into details about the menu as it does change, but we know the desserts are smashing and once a success, hopefully always a success! Try a chocolate sampler plate or our favourite, the Citrus Sampler. What a wonderful combination of consistencies - light and dense - of lemon delicacies. Even for chocolate lovers, this is a sampler to try.

Mishy's High Tea Website Link

Mishy's High TeaAddress: Lachlan Court, The Mall
Phone: 02 4577 7236
Hours: Tues-Sun 11am-3.30pm

A touch of quaint elegance has entered the historic Windsor scene: Mishy's - serving up English high tea in Lachlan Court. What a wonderful, if calorie-loaded tradition - a terrific way to treat yourself. The tearoom is charming, tables are set for four (or less) with the ambience of old-English customs.

With a friend on a dreary winter's day, we enjoyed an afternoon break of petite savoury sandwiches and yummy sweets - the scones were particularly delicate and flaky. Who could ever pass up cream and jam? We owe the English so much!

As Mishy's is a family endeavour, birthday parties, bridal showers and Mother's Day celebrations all have that personal touch. And as you might guess, there is a story behind the birth of Mishy's. Ask Michelle.

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