The Best Bakeries in Melbourne
Melbourne is obsessed with baked goods from around the world. The Jewish community introduced us to challah and bagels, which come fresh at south-side favourite Little Sister. The Middle Eastern diaspora offers pide and flatbreads, which you’ll still find regular queues for at institution A1 Bakery. And Japanese bakers – like Bakemono – bag up shokupan and pastries spiked with yuzu and matcha. We also have a staggering number of Paris-perfect boulangeries, not to mention a croissant – created right here in Melbourne – widely considered to be among the world’s best. Whether you’re looking for excellent sourdough for your weekend breakfast, or perhaps a fancy meat pie, these are the best spots to find what you need.
Words by Holly Bodeker-Smith
Updated on 23 December 2025
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Butter Days
Fine-dining precision meets bakehouse classics at this takeaway-focused spot from Dessert Masters winner John Demetrios.
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Dua
Hit this innovative “Scandinasian” bakery for snacky breakfast plates, Japanese and Filipino breads paired with marzipan and other classic Scandi fillings and other fun fusions.
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Urbanstead
Operating out of a converted warehouse in Abbotsford, this bakery focusses on making nourishing whole foods, minimising waste and fostering community.
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Baker Bleu Caulfield North
The finest sourdough in Melbourne? Attica and Cumulus Inc. certainly seem to think so. Baker Mike Russell, who also makes baguettes and bagels, has worked in some of Sydney and Melbourne's most iconic bakeries. And the student may just have become the master. Also in Prahran.
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Lune Croissanterie Fitzroy
Inside a converted warehouse, the world-famous croissanterie’s Melbourne HQ takes the French pastry to a place you’ve never seen before. Specifically, a climate-controlled glass cube where the bakers assemble their creations beneath a striking LED light display. For the full Lune experience, book a seat at the lab for a pastry degustation with bottomless coffee. Also in Armadale and the CBD.
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Tarts Anon Richmond
The flagship for one of Melbourne’s biggest lockdown success stories packs all of the signature tarts the brand has become beloved for – plus some site-exclusive surprises. Even the tart sceptic in your life will have trouble resisting.
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A1 Bakery Brunswick
An affordable Lebanese bakery and cafe serving za’atar pizzas, spinach and cheese pies and classic sweets. It also triples as a grocery stocked with imported specialty ingredients to create your own Middle Eastern meals at home. Also in [Fitzroy]/melbourne/fitzroy/shops/a1-bakery-fitzroy) and Fairfield.
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Tori’s
It feels like your grandma’s lounge room – in the best way. And in true grandma style, it’s nailed the art of afternoon tea. Go for Japanese shortcake and Basque burnt cheesecake by the slice, plus topnotch matcha and matcha madeleines.
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Wild Life Bakery
Huw Murdoch's fantastic slow-fermented sourdough loaves are well worth picking up to bring home, but we recommend heading to Wild Life for a meal if you can. Inside this striking converted warehouse, you'll find a mostly vegetarian menu where toasties are the heroes.
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Baker D. Chirico
Daniel Chirico is one of Melbourne's best bakers, and his bread is some of the best in town. But it's his wildly popular cannoli and bombolini that have kept us coming back for all these years. Just be sure to get in early, almost everything here tends to sell out well before close.
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Bread Club
Two French bakers are behind this airy, mint-green bakery – and its spinoff across the river in Albert Park. They’re doing classic sourdough, fruit loaves and three-ingredient baguettes, plus creative croissant flavours and killer weekend specials. Also in Albert Park.
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Bakemono Bakers
This Japanese-inspired bakery is from the team behind Little Rogue just across the street. It's selling whole loaves of shokupan (fluffy milk bread), flaky almond-yuzu croissants, Danishes piled high with berries, and soft buns filled with cream cheese, then doused in garlic butter.
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Cobb Lane Richmond Traders
A Noma alumnus – and one of the city’s best bakers – has a sleek operation inside the Richmond Traders precinct, turning out exemplary European-style sourdough breads, danish pastries, cookies and more. Also in Yarraville and South Melbourne Market.
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Austro Bakery
An Austrian-inspired bakery serving pretzels, sachertorte and unmissable croissants. On the walls of its former warehouse digs, you’ll see nostalgic murals depicting the owner’s favourite Austrian town. Otherwise, this is a sleek operation with baked goods to match.
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Oasis Bakery Murrumbeena
An enormous Middle Eastern bakery, cafe and grocer stocked with hundreds of herbs, spices and specialty ingredients. It’s all tied together by a suitably Middle Eastern soundtrack – and the intermingling aromas of roasted meat and freshly baked Lebanese pizza coming from the kitchen. Also in Fairfield and Mornington.
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Monforte Viennoiserie
Visit this tiny bakery for knockout sweet-and-salty croissants, hazelnut pains au chocolat and asparagus and goat's curd pastries. But get in early and be prepared to queue – it almost always sells out.
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Masses Bagels
Rip’n’dip bagel packs, fermented yellow peach and Thai basil soda, and a steadfast roster of classics. The popular market stall and its wild-fermented bagels now has a permanent home in Collingwood.
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Zelda Bakery
A sourdough micro-bakery by loyally followed baker Maaryasha Werdiger. She's pulling crowds with her sourdough loaves, pillowy focaccia, beautifully braided challah and swirly chocolate babka.
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Candied Bakery
A research trip to the United States was the inspiration behind this Aussie bakery with a twist. Find lamingtons, fruit buns, croissants and cookies (think chocolate and marshmallow with sea salt), as well as organic bread and focaccia slabs.
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The Flour House
Behind this low-key shopfront is a vast sourdough bakery powered by a vintage Austrian flour mill. But it’s not all about bread – take a seat inside for loaded Middle Eastern flatbreads, fluffy American-style pancakes or a classic croque monsieur to go with your coffee.
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Kudo
By an ex-Sunda pastry chef, Kudo serves all sorts of coeliac-friendly creations – like baguettes, cakes and cookies, and chewy, custardy canelés in left-of-centre flavours.
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Ovens Street
Operating out of an old workshop on an unassuming street, this bread and pastry outfit supplies some of Melbourne’s best cafes. Head here if you want to go straight to the source – and be sure to pre-order its sell-out danishes online so you don’t miss out.
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Loafer Bread
Queues to snatch Loafer’s organic breads, buttery croissants and breakfast sandwiches aren’t uncommon on weekends. Get down early for a sunny spot on the footpath, or cosy up indoors with a coffee while you ponder your choices.
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Dench Bakers
This bakery has been a Fitzroy North Village since 2005. Its versatility is its greatest strength: the excellent sourdough is bolstered by a line-up that includes plenty of pastries and gluten-free cakes. Don't miss the hot cross buns at Easter-time.
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To Be Frank Collingwood
For days when you’re not feeling sourdough, head to this smart bakery that specialises in slow-fermented breads made exclusively with wholegrain flour. Grab a loaf to go – or perch on a milk crate and tuck into Argentinian- and French-style pastries paired with Symmetry coffee.
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4me Gluten Free
This tiny bakery churns out a colourful array of coeliac-friendly cakes and treats – plus bagels, babka and challah. Need an egg-free, gluten-free celebration cake? A fodmap-friendly focaccia? Baker Yinon Hacham has you covered.
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Mabels
Lofty cakes, flaky house-made pies and a killer fried chicken sandwich are the hallmarks of this homey cafe and bakery from two Kiwi expats.
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Sebby’s Scrolls
It’s all about the standout cinnamon scrolls at this corner store. Expect oozing, super-soft layers of dough, cinnamon and caramelised brown sugar with a heaped layer of cream cheese icing. Plus, savoury scrolls, hot chocolate and coffee.
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Mister Nice Guy's BakeShop
This retro-tinged north-side spot lays claim to being the city’s first plant-based bakery. Naturally, vegan gluten-free treats are the specialty, made from kosher, soy-free and organic ingredients. Try one of the decadent tiered cakes in flavours like peanut butter pretzel and popcorn mudslide.
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Iris The Bakery
The couple behind it lived in Copenhagen for three years, and wanted to bring their love for Danish bread to Melbourne. Find sticky-sweet cardamom buns and an artisanal loaf as big as a cushion – served with a hearty helping of hygge.
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Artisanal Bakehouse
This petite bakery is renowned for its cinnamon scrolls and croissants (especially the savoury one – go for the garlic butter croissant if not sold out). It’s by two French chefs that have swapped out the bustle of Michelin-starred Parisian restaurants for the calm of Bentleigh’s main drag.
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The Flour
The West Melbourne bakery blends Asian flavours and native Australian ingredients with French pastry technique. Come for its popular chestnut-loaded Mont Blanc, pistachio-cardamom madeleines, specialty brews and more.
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Impasto Forno Antico
With roots in Puglia and Calabria, Italian pride runs thick through this bakery’s copper pipes. That means generational recipes, Italian-speaking staff and a standout ciabatta with a crunchy crust and a light, airy inside.
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Woodfrog Bakery
From humble beginnings in St Kilda, Woodfrog has since built a steadfast following and expanded with locations bayside, in the CBD and eastern suburbs. Once you’ve tried its fermented sourdough loaves and chewy bagels, you’ll understand the hype. Also in Malvern, Camberwell, Elwood and more.
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Bread K
Try 15 types of salt bread, a buttery Korean and Japanese speciality not unlike a dinner roll, at this compact bakery.
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Tokyo Lamington
Cult-followed lamingtons by a former Black Star Pastry chef. Alongside its playful range of lamingtons (think yuzu curd and cream; and fairy-bread popcorn), expect made-to-order onigiri, pork-katsu sausage rolls and miso-mushroom pies.
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Amann Patisserie
In addition to creative pastries such as brioche dabbed with Biscoff, the French-trained chef and co-owner does classics made with a healthy dose of French butter.
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Gordon Street Bakery
This patisserie is a small slice of French life. Its Paris-bred owner serves fluffy almond croissants, much-loved cheese sticks, sourdough baguettes and more – until they sell out.
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Little Sister Elsternwick
This family-run bakery serves up Middle Eastern-inspired pita pockets, bagels, challah and loaves. Bag a loaf of bread for home or pick up its grab-and-go lunches of shakshuka-stuffed pita pockets, and bread twists topped with fragrant za’atar. Also in McKinnon and Malvern.
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JC Patisserie Boulangerie
A grand chandelier and marbled walls give this tiny French patisserie an extra dose of opulence. That’s before you get to the Paris-inspired madeleines, baguettes, house-blended coffee, and a new take on the classic croissant.
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Back Alley Bakes
It doesn’t get more hole-in-the-wall than this backstreet bakery, which started as a lockdown project. Its roller door rises early to serve sourdough loaves, flaky croissants and a knockout sausage-roll-croissant hybrid.
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Raya
The viral self-taught baker behind Raya has caught the attention of Vogue and MoMA. Come for singular cakes, jumbo cookies, and the signature kuih (petite, glutinous desserts with mung bean paste, coconut and more).
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Pecks Road CBD
The Filipino cafe’s fluffy, yeasted triple-ube doughnuts take three days to make. Plus, come for Caramilk crullers, ube bombolones, “Filipino banh mi” and a twist on a McMuffin.
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La Colmena
Familiar with piononos, glaseados, doblegats or xuixos? You’re about to be. This one-woman show specialises in regional sweets and pastries, from syrupy sponge cakes filled with custard to one of the oldest desserts in Spain.
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Ocab Bakery
What happens when a Paris-trained baker and an ex-civil engineer open a bakery? Ocab happens: a friendly spot with outstanding flaky croissants (including a Vegemite spin-off), French flans, crumbly Persian tarts and more.
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Lumos Bakery
A light-filled bakery best known for its brownie-croissant hybrid. Its owner, an ex-Dinner by Heston Blumenthal pastry chef, has also served hazelnut croissants, chocolate babka and inventive toasties.
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Motte Bakery
A third-gen baker is behind this micro-bakery, where Basque cheesecake might come spiked with yuzu or ube. Plus, find a rotation of takeaway-friendly focaccias, ham and cheese scrolls, and more.
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Akimbo Bread
Top local restaurants and bars (like Aru and Bar Bellamy) love the loaves at this this micro-bakery. Head to this suburban shopfront for its famous sourdough, as well as fruit bread, fougasse and fluffy focaccia.
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Bloomwood
Among a strong selection of Asian-inspired viennoiserie, you’ll also find focaccia pizza for lunch and specialty drinks that can be served with three baby croissants on a skewer.
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Backhaus Food Store
Find 48-hour-fermented sourdough loaves, piping hot fougasse filled with kimchi and cheddar cheese, and an impressive pantry section with Bendigo honey and Jam Haus preserves.
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Bobby’s Bakery
Behind the roller door, you’ll find rye sourdough, crisp baguettes, vegan pizzas, flaky croissants and its signature Cornish pasties made the traditional way.
