{"id":37281,"date":"2026-06-24T02:52:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T02:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/37281\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T02:52:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T02:52:17","slug":"adelaide-supermarket-wins-australias-best-croissant-and-sourdough-news-articles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/37281\/","title":{"rendered":"Adelaide supermarket wins Australia\u2019s best croissant and sourdough – News + Articles"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n Frewville and Pasadena Foodlands has Australia\u2019s best croissant, sourdough and baguette in the bag.\n <\/p>\n

It\u2019s a truth universally acknowledged that residents of inner-city Adelaide in possession of disposable income can and will spend it at Frewville and Pasadena Foodlands.<\/p>\n

This duo of supermarkets under the Adelaide\u2019s Finest brand have become local legends for their next-level offerings \u2013 from their dedicated seafood, cheese and salumi bars \u2013 where you can graze in-store over a glass of paired South Australian wine \u2013 to their early adoption of store-wide \u2018quiet hours\u2019<\/a>\u00a0for sensory-challenged shoppers.<\/p>\n

Now it\u2019s the in-house bakeries\u2019 time to make the home crowd proud, taking out a swag of prizes at the Baking Association of Australia\u2019s National Artisan Baking Competition, held this year on the Gold Coast.<\/p>\n

As well as taking out best-in-show for their sourdough, the bakery and patisserie teams presented Australia\u2019s best croissant, Danish and baguette at the national awards, which feature the winning bakers from state rounds of judging.<\/p>\n

\"\"Croissants in making at Pasadena and Frewville Foodlands.Credit: Jack Fenby<\/p>\n

The supermarkets\u2019 team of qualified pastry chefs and bakers stock the house Breadbars daily with stone-baked bread, pastries, cakes, pizzas, doughnuts, waffles and more.<\/p>\n

The winning sourdough was made with the team\u2019s usual recipe, featuring all-organic flour, and the winning croissant featured a 27-layer laminated dough made with French butter from Normandy, started three days out from baking.<\/p>\n

Head baker Peter Soteriou (previously of the acclaimed Uraidla Bakery<\/a> in the Adelaide Hills), head pastry chef Tharindu Ranatunga (who trained in five-star hotels in Dubai) and head of production Robert Trimboli travelled up to Queensland with the precious cargo.<\/p>\n

The third-generation managing director of Adelaide\u2019s Finest, Spero Chapley, credits his father with putting the first in-supermarket bakery to work in the 1980s.<\/p>\n

\"\"The in-house bakery at Adelaide\u2019s Finest.Credit: Jack Fenby<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not the first time Adelaide\u2019s Finest\u2019s bakeries have risen to the occasion, having been back-to-back winners at the Royal Adelaide Show and dominating at the SA Baking Awards, but the National Artisan win proves they\u2019re not loafing about on the Australia-wide stage either.<\/p>\n

By the end of the competition, Adelaide\u2019s Finest took out a total of 10 trophies, with the full list below:<\/p>\n

Champion Product of Show: Multigrain Sourdough
\nChampion Sourdough Loaf: Multigrain Sourdough
\nChampion Viennoiserie: Croissant
\n1st Place Sourdough (Multigrain)
\n1st Place Open Specialty Viennoiserie (Danish)
\n1st Place Croissant
\n1st Place Baguette
\n1st Place Ciabatta Loaf (min. 200g)
\n2nd Place Traditional Rye Sourdough (min. 680g)
\n2nd Place Traditional White Sourdough (min 600g)<\/p>\n

Related story: We\u2019ve found 12 of the best regional bakeries in South Australia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Frewville and Pasadena Foodlands has Australia\u2019s best croissant, sourdough and baguette in the bag. It\u2019s a truth universally…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37282,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[31267,395,31257,31262,31259,26684,31260,31261,31263,31258,31265,31266,31264,18801],"class_list":["post-37281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-adelaide","tag-2026-national-artisan-baking-competition","tag-adelaide","tag-adelaide-bakery","tag-adelaide-supermarket","tag-adelaides-finest","tag-bakery","tag-best-bakery-in-adelaide","tag-best-supermarket-in-adelaide","tag-croissant","tag-frewville-and-pasadena-foodlands","tag-gourmet-grocer","tag-national-artisan-baking-competition","tag-sourdough","tag-where-to-eat-in-adelaide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}