Sweet new beginnings

Ms Quick is no stranger to Tinto, having worked under the previous owners, Beth and Josh Taylor, when they first opened their bricks-and-mortar store front in 2022.

“I did my (baking) apprenticeship during that time, and basically as soon as I finished, Josh asked ‘would you like to buy the bakery?’,” she said.

“He and his wife were heading up north, so it was a good opportunity.”

Working there throughout her apprenticeship, she had plenty of time to learn the trade secrets, and how to craft the perfect sourdough, croissants and morning buns that made the bakery so popular.

“He sort of offered it to me first, because I knew everything that was going on, how to do everything, so it was good that it all came through,” Ms Quick said.

“It was a bit daunting at first, but I’ve got a lot of support around me, everyone’s been really helpful and willing to lend a hand.”

Ms Quick and her small team rose to the occasion, and are back open two days a week for customers to sit down, enjoy a coffee and one of their tasty treats.

“I’m implementing little changes every now and then because there were so many towards the end of last year,” she said.

“There’s new products in the works, some new lunch options coming in, and I’m trying to get people more used to dining in.

“I think it’s lovely to see the place full of smiling faces.”

On the menu is coffee sourced from Wide Open Rd, with bagels, almond croissants, kouign-amann, gluten-free brownies and cookies and escargots with more seasonally on offer.

“We’ve got a salted caramel kouign-amann — it’s like a croissant’s pastry with extra sugar, extra butter, and then we make some house-made salted caramel on top — that’s been quite popular since we reopened,” Ms Quick said.

Outside their store front, the bakery also stocks its pastries across the Goulburn Valley, including locally at The Local and Elsewhere at SAM in Shepparton from Wednesday to Saturday.

Tinto Bakery is open from 7am to 1pm on Fridays and 8am to 1pm on Saturdays, and is located at 217 High St, Shepparton.

To stay up to date with the bakery, you can find it on Instagram @tinto_artisan.