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Zelda croissants, crowned Melbourne’s best.

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Essential Melbourne Cafes and Bakeries of 2025: Best Bakeries

When haute viennoiseries and next-level loaves matter, these are the places you’ll want to fill your bread basket.

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Breads and pastries on display at the new Cremorne location.

Baker Bleu

Grab a coffee and a pastry from Iris in Brunswick.

Iris the Bakery

Pastries including pandan kaya croissant toast and mushroom rendang hand pie.

Core Roasters

Blackberry danishes.

Zelda Bakery

Dua Bakehouse sells pandan princess cake, a riff on the Swedish sponge. 

Dua Bakehouse

Preparing scrolls at Hector’s Bakery.

Hector’s Bakery

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Pastries at To Be Frank’s new East Brunswick Village location.

To Be Frank

Sugary pastries.

Small Batch

The baked goods selection.

Candied Bakery

Falco uses organic local flours in its breads, cakes and viennoiseries.

Falco

Bread Club’s window in Albert Park is full at the start of the day.

Bread Club

Selection of loaves from Wild Life in Brunswick East.

Wild Life Bakery

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Mixed berry danishes.

The Flour House

Bakemono’s croissant was ranked in the top five of Melbourne’s best.

Bakemono

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