Pleading pays off for North Sydney foodies

In case you missed it, Din Tai Fung opened recently at Greenwood Plaza. But North Sydney does not live on dumplings alone; Bourke Street Bakery will add its high-quality bread and baked products to the offering when it opens its doors this week in Mount Street.

"Everyone kept asking us to come over," Bourke Street Bakery co-owner Paul Allam says of the decision to open in North Sydney.

No rookie to the area, Allam grew up on the lower north shore and had a spell as a chef in the kitchen at Boronia House at Mosman in the early 1990s.

"It used to be hard over here, you'd be busy on weekends and struggle midweek. But the whole game has changed. People call it the MasterChef revolution, but there's more to it than that."