Obsessed with bread and in search of Melbourne's best bakeries? Look no further than these editor-approved top picks featuring hidden gems and established favourites. From flaky croissants to sourdough that will leave you speechless, these bakeries cater to every craving.
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Whether you're a self-proclaimed loaf enthusiast or a total sugar fiend after a fix you'll find something that’ll have your tastebuds doing a happy dance at these top Melbourne bakeries for 2025.
Bloomwood Coffee & Food
121 Exhibition Street, Melbourne CBD
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Bloomwood is giving us french patisserie realness combined with scrumptious Asian flavours to create some of Melbourne’s best baked goods you’ve ever tasted (and seen).
Bite into a blueberry matcha croissant, a flaky treat oozing with compote and mascarpone, and see why it’s one of their many delightful delicacies going viral on the ‘Gram.
These legends are also serving up all kinds of severely sippable bevvies—from old faithfuls to future classics. Take a seat in their cosy mezzanine and enjoy the aesthetic.
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- This bakehouse was cooked up by the same minds behind Sloppy Joe’s Deli.
- You’ll want to head here real early (like before 10am early) because these pastries sell out quick.
- Add-on their signature Bloomtini (three skewered baby croissants) to any drink for extra tastiness and an adorable photo-op.
Dröm Bakery
1/19 Scoresby Road, Bayswater
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Dröm is the talk of the town. The artisanal bakery swung open its doors only last year and has ever since been met with lines out the door. It’s the same crew that own The Hatter And The Hare opposite the bakery, and the baked goods are led by Head Baker George Dardamanis.
Dröm is best known for their exceptional loaves of bread, but the real winner is the half-moon and crescent croissants. They change up the flavours on the reg to keep things fun, but bark our words, go the pistachio and white chocolate crescent if it’s available. One bite and you’ll know why there’s some people that drive several hours to visit Dröm.
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- Dröm Bakery was born from how popular the pastries were at sister venue Hatter and the Hare.
- Parking can be sparce on site, but there's plenty more over the road behind 88 Bikes Bayswater.
- You'll pay around the $11-12 mark for a croissant.
Baked Wonder
70 Middleborough Road, Burwood
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As far as ‘best bakery Melbourne’ options roll, this one-hit-wonder is doing it all from a rooftop with sweeping views of the Dandenong Ranges with an entirely pink offering. In the literal sense—the croissants are loaded with a creamy raspberry-strawberry filling, the ice tea is a deep hot pink, and even the coffee machine is licked with pink.
Baked Wonder only just opened its doors, but we’re loving it all so much so we’re already calling it a Melbourne best. Go for crookie, and stay for the chocolate-and-pink dipped Danish churros.
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- While Baked Wonder is primarily a take-and-go operation, there are a handful of seats both inside and outside you can snatch up.
- The savoury options such as the sausage rolls are courtesy of Prahran Market's G. McBean Family Butcher.
- All sweet and savoury goods sit under the $10 mark.
Bread Club
Various Locations
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Bread Club, one of Melbourne's most renowned bakeries, has earned a well-deserved clout for its unforgettable baked goods that surpass all expectations. Exuding a tidy and minimal aesthetic with their marble benchtops and captivating teal walls, the almond croissants at Bread Club are aesthetically and conventionally gorgeous. With a luscious almond filling encased in a flawlessly crispy exterior, these croissants leave a lasting imprint.
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- Every year, Bread Club churn out some of the best hot cross buns for Easter time.
- They do it all here—pies, sangas, croissants, cookies and more—at both outposts in North Melbourne and Albert Park.
- The team even whips up a remarkable choc-almond creation that takes the experience to another level.
Tokyo Lamington
258 Elgin Street, Carlton
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Tokyo Lamington, a revered bakery known for its iconic chocolate, coconut, cream, and raspberry jam lamington, has expanded from Sydney to Melbourne. With flavours like black sesame and Yuzu meringue, the Melbourne location on Elgin Street offers a modular design and a rotating menu of eight delectable lamington options, including classics like the OG, Yuzu Meringue, and Fairy Bread, as well as innovative variations like tiramisu and creme caramel. As Tokyo Lamington continues to captivate Melbourne's food scene, it epitomizes culinary excellence and redefines the notion of being a top bakery in the city.
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- It's not limited to sweets here—savoury options come in the form of quiche, sausage rolls, and pies.
- If it's your first time going, you have to go the mainstay Fair Bread.
- You'll pay around the $8 mark per lamington, or you can get a half dozen box for $45.
Penny For Pound
Various Locations
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Penny For Pound is becoming an empire, with their 800sqm pastry mecca in Moorabbin, followed by their Camberwell locale and Richmond outpost. Helmed by Ben Wilson and Matilda Smith, the pair's pastry dreams kicked off eight years ago and now in 2025, they’ve truly come true. Inside their locales are a tidy selection of a-grade baked goods including favourites like their strawberry cheesecake or cheese and vegemite croissants. There's also fresh bread and a display fridge filled with sangas ready for toasting.
Falco
Various Locations
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This northside favourite combines traditional techniques with an innovative spin, it’s considered somewhat of the Falco ethos, and you’ll find that they’re bending the bakery rules to add a little Falco flavour into the mix.
Their cardamom buns are must-try when you visit, but that’s only one reason it makes the best bakeries Melbourne list. Head Baker and co-owner Christine Tran spent a whole year developing the recipe, along with many others in the cabinet. Though If you’re able to take your eyes off the baked goods behind the window, you’ll notice that there’s also a daily menu which you can select from. As well as drinks both hot and cold, it includes a range of sandwiches like ham and cheese, egg salad and more.
Wild Life Bakery
90 Albert Street, Brunswick East
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When owner Huw Murdoch spotted the cavernous warehouse space on Albert Street, he knew he’d hit the jackpot. Cathedral ceilings, exposed brick all over the place, with plenty of room for a dedicated bakery. Wild Life has to be one of Melbourne’s most beautiful spaces we’ve seen in a long, long time. The fit-out is classic northside, but with a contemporary polish. There’s huge porthole-esque windows where you can peer through and watch the sourdough magic taking place, or you could just get down on one of the fresh passionfruit and lemon curd tarts or endless baked treats that Brunswick and beyond can’t get enough of.
Artisanal Bakehouse
313 Centre Road, Bentleigh
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Artisanal Bakehouse which sits on Centre Road in Bentleigh is run by French duo Aymeric Vincent and David Caillaud, who collectively have amassed over 20 years experience in kitchens as pastry chefs and bakers, including in Paris’ three Michelin star restaurant Guy Savoy, and Canne’s Carlton.
You’ll find your staple baked goods at Artisanal Bakehouse, though there are still specialities that come straight from the minds of the duo. For example, their standout creation the apple turnover, which is dense and buttery but light to the bite, as well as weekly specials—recently it was a Tropezienne, (a brioche soaked in syrup and filled with orange custard) a famed interpretation of the iconic Saint-Tropez dessert.
The calibre of the team behind the ovens is of course just one reason Artisanal Bakehouse is considered one of the best bakeries in Melbourne for 2025, but try it for yourself and you’ll realise why on first bite.
Tivoli Road Bakery
3 Tivoli Road, South Yarra
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Formerly known as MoVida Bakery (and owned by Frank Camorra), head baker Michael James has took the thriving South Yarra business under his wing some years ago, and now in 2025, Tivoli Road is considered one of Melbourne’s best bakeries. The artisan-inspired pastries and breads are baked fresh before your very eyes; many visit for golden pies and sausage rolls, meanwhile the sweet tooths will have a field day getting down on the likes of eclairs, cookies, lemon curd-filled doughnuts and more.
Kudo
8 Little Collins Street, Melbourne CBD
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A mere hole-in-the-wall of the heritage-listed Windsor Hotel, Kudo is the new CBD artisan bakery specialising in gluten-free bread and baked goods, and it’s making quite the splash in 2025. Tucked away just off the corner of Little Collins and Spring Street, the cosy cafe and bakeshop is the joint venture between chef duo Felix Goodwin (Donovans, Sunda) and partner Elena Nguyen (European, Saigon Sally).
Inside Kudo, there's a previously unimaginable selection of gluten-free treasures, be it a matcha-infused canalé, pomelo chiffon cake, cream-filled choux pastry or even a pull-apart Mars Bar-style cookie with wattleseed. As impressive as the baked goods are, it's the bread here that's the star; foremostly the sourdough. For anyone who has sampled GF-bread, it's a tough act to emulate the real deal but it was just this creation that cemented Kudo as one of the best bakeries Melbourne has to offer.
Baker D. Chirico
Various Locations
With interiors this striking, it’s easy to get distracted upon entering a Baker D. Chirico. You’ll find the bread cocooned within the wave-like wooden panels of the bakery, while the soft lighting throughout the space will charm you by both the details and the produce. Some of the standout eats that have had locals and newcomers alike raving are the delish fruit buns and nougat—head into a Baker D. Chirico and make up your own mind as to why this standout makes the Melbourne’s best bakery list year in, year out.
Tarts Anon
Various Locations
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If you didn’t slide into the Tarts Anon DM’s did you even do lockdown in Melbourne? The clandestine dessert operation headed up by former Dinner By Heston chef and Lune alumni, Gareth Whitton and partner Catherine Way was a smash-hit when it kicked off a few years ago, and in 2025 going strong with two Tarts Anon locales.
Crowd favourites can usually be found at the specialty bakery’s two locales: like the chocolate caramel, lemon and rhubarb and pecan and butterscotch that frequently feature in the lineup.
Dench
109 Scotchmer Street, Fitzroy North
Famous for their organic sourdough bread, Dench Bakers in Fitzroy North is easily one of the best bakeries in Melbourne, and one of the most-loved, too. Highlights from this humble northside bakery include, but certainly aren’t limited to, their classic chicken sandwich, their organic sourdoughs and their hot cross buns come Easter time.
Monforte Viennoiserie
585a Canning Street, Carlton North
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Like a lot of hospitality ventures arising out of the COVID-19 pandemic, Monforte’s menu is considered, with founder Giorgia McAllister Forte focusing on just a few offerings and refining the absolute heck out them—that being Euro-inspired pastries and artisan jams to accompany your weekend treat.
It’s a croissant-heavy affair at one of Melbourne’s smallest and best bakeries, with pretty much everything made on-site. The varieties on offer rotate regularly, with McAllister Forte leaning on the seasons for inspiration and ingredients; recent highlight e a savoury guanciale, a parmesan and thyme croissant, gluten-free strawberry and yuzu muffins along with a leatherwood honey and seasalt croissant that’s been on the menu since day one. McAllister Forte’s winning formula hasn’t just been stumbled upon, though. The pastry chef of 10 years has earned her stripes at London’s Violet in Hackney under baking royalty Claire Ptak, not to mention several seasons cheffing under England’s Mark Hix. Her learnings may be of international pedigree, though the ingredients used are all gathered from within Australia, and most from local farms within Victoria.
Loafer Bread
146 Scotchmer Street, Fitzroy North
If it’s an almond croissant you’re after, then stop by Loafer Bread in Fitzroy North for one of the best in Melbourne. It’s topped with just the right amount of toasted almond flakes and icing sugar, and the pastry is perfectly flakey. They also do a delectable chocolate croissant and a damn good plain one too. Loafer’s been around for several years now, and in 2025 locals agree it’s one of Melbourne’s best.
Ned’s Bake
Various Locations
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Ned Radojcic isn’t a guy to do things by halves. Years back, Ned flew to Berlin to meet with American master-baker Benjamin Tugwell, and Aussie baker Timothy Naughton (who’s done stints at both Baker D. Chirico and Noisette), and brought them both back to work in Ned’s. The result? Bread Nirvana.
Set one foot inside a Ned’s Bake and you can tell it’s all about the bread. Batons of light rye, slashed ‘Chef’s Loaves’ of white sourdough and multigrain, gnarly green olive grissini sticks stuffed with olives the size of your fist (give or take). The loaves are displayed proudly in cabinets at one of the best bakeries in Melbourne, stacked high on the shelves, even tied to wire mesh and displayed in the windows. It smells of flour and newly-opened ovens and your grandma’s kitchen.
Q le BAKER
Stall 709, Prahran Market, South Yarra
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A cute hole-in-the-wall bread bar in Prahran Market. The name? Q le BAKER. The bread? Some of the best Melbourne has to offer. It’s the kind of bread that is practically a meal in itself. Founder Quentin Berthonneau sources organic stone-ground flour from local mills like Rolling Stone and Laucke in South Australia. He then takes every ounce of his considerable bread-making skill, acquired during stints at Vue de Monde and Chez Dres, and creates sourdough masterpieces, and the result is one of the best bakeries Melbourne has to offer.
Dense, dark loaves with a crust that could stop bullets. Porridge & black rice bread, stuffed with wild oats. Buttermilk hot dog buns so soft they practically collapse under their own weight.
Candied Bakery
136 Hall Street, Spotswood
With a US-meets-Aussie approach to baked goods, Candied Bakery in Spotswood offers doughy delights that will have you seeing stars and stripes. The team here are cakes, doughnuts, flaky pies, nutella-stuffed croissants and even soft serve icecream, with flavours that rotate weekly. Candied does far more than the basic bakery items and is well worth the trip across town if you’re on the hunt for one of the best bakeries in Melbourne.
Lune Croissanterie
Various Locations
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Lune truly needs no introduction. A front runner as one of Melbourne’s best bakeries, Lune serves up deliciously flaky croissants, pastries, danishes and of course the cruffin. Wondering what a cruffin is? It's a genius combination of croissant and muffin, which founder Kate Reid puts different flavours on the menu regularly. Everything from lime splice, salted caramel, choc mousse and more.
There’s always something new at Lune, and you can keep up to date with their specials over on The Feed, Urban List’s food and bev news hub.
Rustica
Various Locations
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Bakery empire Rustica is showing no signs of slowing down in 2025, and with five locations in and around Melbourne selling out on the regular, it makes sense. They’re famous for their sourdoughs, though you’d be doing yourself a disservice not ordering up from the stellar breakfast, brunch and lunch menus.
Glazed
1-3 Carre Street, Elsternwick
Glazed was always going to make it onto the list of Melbourne’s best bakeries. With an ex Vue De Monde chef at the helm, the Elsternwick-based gluten-free bakery has most dietary preferences covered with a range of cakes, bread, and sweet treats all free from gluten, dairy and nuts. Shoutout to the Brazilian Romeo & Juliet cheesecake, a New York-style cheesecake with a South-American-inspired guava glaze.
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