Ask any Hobart local about the best patisserie in town and Sweet Envy is what you’ll hear again and again. Ask a Sydneysider and it’s a bit more complicated. Now, even more so, because Sweet Envy’s boss and chef Alistair Wise has just moved into Newtown.

Wise is behind Drury Lane, the new upstairs resident at Brewtown Newtown. “I was in Hobart looking at a site down there,” says Brewtown’s owner Simon Triggs. “I asked people who's the best pastry guy down here. Everyone said Alistair. We met and got talking and decided to do something together.”

Although the name is new, almost everything else in the bakery is the same as Wise’s range in Hobart. The most lauded of all Sweet Envy’s creations, the pecan sticky bun, has made the journey. It’s a masterful creation – like a cinnamon scroll in structure but surrounded by a dense, gooey salted-caramel glaze. The croissant-style dough inside is as perfectly layered and fluffy as one can imagine.