A picturesque setting and smorgasbord of delightful local food and drink offerings makes New South Wales’ Tweed Valley tourism spot a veritable treat for the senses.
It’s just past dawn in peaceful art-deco Murwillumbah where an early-morning queue has formed outside a tiny hole-in-the-wall bakery at the trendy end of town. There are plenty of skilled technicians in the pastry world but few of them are magicians like Ben Leonardi.
His glass display cases are a creative playground of mind-blowingly delicious pastries, some of which, paradoxically, emerged from the catastrophe…