Images: Cheryse Zagler Patisserie and Farm Shop
One of the Barossa Valley’s most beloved patisseries is preparing for a major new chapter, moving into a historic Greenock venue that originally operated as a bakery over 150 years ago.
Cheryse Zagler Patisserie and Farm Shop will relocate to former El Estanco site in the coming weeks, a venue with three times the indoor capacity of her current patisserie in Nurioopta.
The move comes just over a year after pastry chef and owner Cheryse Zagler opened the original shop – which she thought would be a “quiet little patisserie.”
“That didn’t happen at all,” she told Glam Adelaide.
“It became a fully fledged big, big thing.”
What began with Cheryse, her now-husband Daniel and one additional staff member has now grown into a team of 13.
“We love our site here, but we have definitely outgrown it very fast,” Cheryse said.
“The inside space only fits 30 people, whereas the new space will fit up to 80 people.”
The extra room will give her patisserie not just space for more customers, but also more opportunities, coming with a pizza oven and liquor license.
And while all the favourites from the existing patisserie will remain on the menu, Cheryse said that she is working with her pastry chef to design “a new menu for more of the plated style food for people to sit and enjoy.”
“I’ll also be launching the pizza oven in spring and summer for pizza nights,” Cheryse said.
A large island table positioned near a fireplace will accommodate group bookings of up to 14 people while also providing a communal dining space for smaller groups and individual visitors.
Despite the extra space, Cheryse said she is keen to keep the intimate atmosphere that helped make the original shop so popular.
“It’s all exposed wooden beams, and still the white, rustic tones of our Nurioopta site,” she said.
“The biggest thing for us is keeping the warm feeling that you get when you walk in the door.”
She said that the building’s front room will become an open pastry room, allowing customers to watch Cheryse and her team prepare croissant dough and other pastries behind French-style glass doors. Meanwhile, the backyard will be a space for families to relax and unwind with space for kids to explore.
“We’ve done some gorgeous hedging along the fence, we’ve painted and built a beautiful cubby house for the kids, and we are also turning a shed into a chicken coop,” she added.
“There’s quite a bit in the works, and this premises gives me those options, whereas our old site, unfortunately, just doesn’t give me those options,” Cheryse said.
The Nuriootpa venue will remain open until the end of this week, with the Greenock patisserie expected to open in the coming weeks.
