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Ingredients

Our ingredients tell a story: one of soil, sunlight, patience, and care.

We choose to work with organic and regenerative farming practices because they give back more than they take. Our eggs come exclusively from regenerative farms like Farmer Angus, where animals are raised with dignity and the land is allowed to breathe, rebuild, and flourish.

Regenerative farming reminds us that food is not just something we consume, it is part of a living system which assists us in rebuilding topsoil and restoring the delicate balance our earth depends on.

We keep our sourcing as local as possible, partnering with farms close to our café so that freshness is honoured and transport is minimised. Every ingredient travels a shorter distance but carries a deeper purpose. 

All our organic kitchen waste is composted (never sent to landfill) and transformed back into living soil on local farms. What leaves our kitchen returns to the earth, continuing a cycle of nourishment.

We are not yet 100% organic, but we are 100% committed to learning, improving, and evolving.

Ethical supply chains are complex, and logistics can be challenging, but we believe in striving for better. As the industry grows, so do we, step by step.

Our ingredients are a promise: to nurture the earth, support our farmers, and feed our community with integrity.

Coffee

At Pauline’s Coffee, we choose to work with specialty coffee because it protects more than just flavour; it protects people, land, and the future of coffee itself.

Specialty coffee is built on quality over quantity. Instead of pushing for fast, high-volume yields, farmers are supported to slow down production, follow sustainable methods, and focus on cultivating healthier plants. This approach reduces pesticides, preserves biodiversity, and leads to richer, cleaner coffee.

Most importantly, specialty coffee ensures that growers are fairly incentivized for their hard work. When quality is valued, farmers earn more for doing things the right way, using environmentally responsible practices, caring for their soil, and protecting the communities around them.

By choosing specialty coffee, we honour the people at the start of the chain, care for the land that grows our beans, and pour a cup that reflects integrity from beginning to end.

Bakery

Our bakery was born from curiosity: a simple desire to make better bread.

Fourteen years ago, we began with a small sourdough starter at home, feeding it, learning from it, and carrying it into our café kitchen. What started as an experiment quickly became a calling. The quality grew, the demand followed, and soon we found ourselves moving from one bakery space to the next, always expanding, always refining.

Today, our sourdough is crafted with the same patience and reverence it began with.

We choose to work with regeneratively grown grain because grain, although foundational to our diets, is often one of the most destructive crops to the environment when grown conventionally. We want to do it differently. By supporting regenerative farming, we support a more harmonious relationship between farming and nature. We believe bread should nourish both people and the planet.

Each loaf goes through a slow 24-hour fermentation, allowing 85–90% of the gluten to be naturally broken down, making it gentler on the body and richer in flavour. We bake with a beautiful 75–80% hydration, giving our sourdough its open crumb, tender texture, and deep character.

Every pastry that leaves our oven is made in-house, from scratch, with ingredients chosen for purity and purpose.

We use farm butter from regenerative dairies, whole cardamom from exceptional growers, organic unrefined cane sugar, real mineral-rich salt, and eggs from regenerative farms that care for their land and animals.

What comes out of our bakery is more than bread and pastry, it is food shaped by ethics and guided by the belief that nourishment should never cost the earth more than it gives back.