Owner Of Ben's Bakehouse Suzanna - The Best Sausage Roll

Each year, Wotif produces a guide to the 'best local gems', ranking everything from surf clubs to finger buns.

With thousands of entries across the six categories, the awards show Aussies are eager to share their local travel favourites, however it is the classic sausage roll which caused the most debate, earning the title of the most voted category by Aussies. 

The Northern Territory's Ben's Bakehouse in Darwin was the best in the state

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now you might have heard me mention on the show
yesterday that what If produces a guide to the best
local gems, ranking everything from surf clubs to finger buns.
Thousands of entries across the six categories and well the
award show that Ossie's are eager to share their local
travel favorites. But it is the classic sausage roll which

(00:20):
caused the most debate. It earned the title of the
most voted category by Australians in these awards and the
Northern Territories. Ben's bake House in Darwin was the best.
Now the owner Susannah joins me on the line right now.
Good morning to you, Susannah.

Speaker 2 (00:39):
Good morning Katie. Thanks for having me on the show.

Speaker 1 (00:41):
It it is lovely to have you on the show now.
I frequent Ben's bake House often. My favorite is a
salami roll, as you know, Susanna, but the sausage rolls
are uh well, best in the country by the sounds.

Speaker 2 (00:55):
Of USh wow, well wow. It's so great to be
recognized to have the best sausage roll after being known
as the best pie shopping Darwin. So yeah, we are
so thrilled.

Speaker 1 (01:10):
I bet you are. You and the whole crew are. Well,
it's a wonderful, wonderful crew. Now, when did you find
out that you had officially one the best sausage rolls.

Speaker 2 (01:22):
Well, I've been away all last week, so I only
found out on Monday from a customer and then, yeah,
it was a wonderful surprise. But yeah, and then you
came into the store, and then I got emails and yeah,
customers coming in letting me know, and the whole crew
were just celebrating this whole week.

Speaker 1 (01:41):
Oh that's awesome.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
Nice.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
Yeah, Now tell me how popular are your sausage rolls, Susannah.

Speaker 2 (01:48):
They are very popular. We have they come in three flavors.
We've got it in plane, cheese, and bacon, and chili.
We do a lot of catering for corporate events with
our sausage rolls, so they're the go to even for
breakfast too.

Speaker 1 (02:02):
I love a good sausage roll for breakfast. Now, in
terms which flavor is the most popular amongst your customers, I.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
Would say the plane, but chili is up there. To Darwin,
we love our spice.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
Yeah, isn't it interesting Territorians do seem to love, you know,
like love their their spicy foods. Maybe not like other
places in the nation. I wonder if we do like
our spice more than others.

Speaker 2 (02:29):
I think so because with the Laxa Festival, our lux
of pies are super super popular and they've been in
demand all year round, but we're only saving it for
the luxA Festival.

Speaker 1 (02:39):
Yeah, fair enough, look forward to fair Enough, Susannah. Is
it a special recipe fear sausage rolls?

Speaker 2 (02:48):
I think so that I don't know it because it's
the back of house team and Maxa Sausage Rolls. I
think it's made with love. Yeah, I love efforts being
put in. It's handmade and all the it's freshly baked
every day. You know, it's not so good, so using
all the fresh ingredients and local projects, so that's been

(03:09):
really good. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (03:10):
And it does make a big difference, right you know.
And that nice, beautiful fluffy pastry. People love it.

Speaker 2 (03:17):
Yes, you can actually take a difference.

Speaker 1 (03:19):
Yeah, much so, so Zada. You sell so many tasty traits.
What's the most popular thing do you reckon that you sell?
Because I was having a discussion about this with a
friend yesterday and she said it's the vanilla slice.

Speaker 2 (03:31):
Vana's Life is very popular to we've got so many.
It's the h a very popular store amongst our office workers.
Now it's transflibed to with our tourists now that visit Darwin.
We have a lot of visitors. Our freshly backed sandwiches
and rolls, yeah go to especially with this climate. Our
doughnuts are super popular and of course the pie is

(03:52):
the pastry. You cannot go wrong with them. And the coffee.
I don't know, we're all around it as you know,
when you come in, it's just, you know, super busy
and it's just wonderful to see the support of the community.

Speaker 1 (04:05):
Yeah, oh absolutely, and so nice to be recognized as
well on a national stage I think through the What
If Awards. So big congratulations to you and the whole team.
A wonderful crew there at Ben's bake House. Susanna, thanks
so much for having a chat with me today.

Speaker 2 (04:22):
Thank you so much, Katie, and for everyone supporting us
and voting us, voting for us. Thank you so much.