Hausfrau Bakery And Cakes

Ph: (03) 9687 8364; 32A Ballarat St, YARRAVILLE 3013

Cafe Fare, $ -
Open Tue-Fri 9am-5pm Sat and Sun 9am-4pm; Unlicensed; AE MC V EFT

Other published opinions

The Age Matt Preston, 10-6-2008 "Hausfrau is dedicated to the celebration of the female home cook. The name means " housewife" in German and the women who work here all wear headscarves tied at the back of the head in a manner familiar to anyone brought up in the Depression or in Eastern Europe. The interior is all terrazzo flooring, walls hung with giant kitchen implements, large floral lampshades, and windows decorated with painted green vines. At one end there's a large communal table with a bowl of downy, moulting quinces. It's all as bright and homely as the high glass cabinets full of home-made temptations."

The Age Cheap Eats 2008 "Hausfrau's vanilla slice is an icing-sugardusted, flaky pastry triumph, so light and airy you'd swear the chef uses the giant whisk that hangs on the shop wall"

The Age Dani Valent, 26-2-2008 "Owner Sally Roxon is a proper chef: she trained with Stephanie Alexander and polished her chops with Paul Bocuse and Greg Brown. Later, she opened South Melbourne's very fine Montague Park Food Store, before heading west to run Gravy Train. Wherever she's been, Roxon always found herself drawn to the sweet end of the kitchen, and when she married her Austrian husband, Christian, her future as a baker of brilliant cakes was sealed. She doesn't want to think about how many cakes they ate together in Vienna (where I'm pretty sure cake is an official food group) but let's just say the research was worth it."