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Core Roasters

This bakery is a finalist for best bread and pastries in Good Food’s Essential Melbourne Cafes and Bakeries of 2025.

Pastries including pandan kaya croissant toast and mushroom rendang hand pie.
1 / 3Pastries including pandan kaya croissant toast and mushroom rendang hand pie.supplied
Mushroom rendang hand pie.
2 / 3Mushroom rendang hand pie.Annabel Smith
Pandan kaya croissant toast.
3 / 3Pandan kaya croissant toast.Annabel Smith

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Indoor plants, a vinyl collection and dark timber cabinets give this cavernous warehouse a cosy share house feel. Industrious staff roast and pack coffee while regulars catch up over their favourite brew and pastry – both ever-changing. Helpfully, coffee tasting notes are illustrated and accessible (there’s one with 7-Up vibes), but the pastries pose tough choices. Bring a mate.

Best for: Those unafraid of left-field baked goods, from pizza pocket croissants to mango sticky rice Danishes.

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Original URL: https://www.smh.com.au/goodfood/melbourne-eating-out/core-roasters-20250521-p5m14f.html