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Hector’s Bakery

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

Preparing scrolls at Hector’s Bakery.
1 / 9Preparing scrolls at Hector’s Bakery.Suppled
There is now a core laminated pastry offering at Hector’s Bakery.
2 / 9There is now a core laminated pastry offering at Hector’s Bakery.Supplied
Hector’s famous sandwiches are on offer including the salad sanger.
3 / 9Hector’s famous sandwiches are on offer including the salad sanger.Supplied
Freshly baked bread.
4 / 9Freshly baked bread.Supplied
Cinnamon scrolls with cream cheese frosting.
5 / 9Cinnamon scrolls with cream cheese frosting.Supplied
The sausage muffin.
6 / 9The sausage muffin.Supplied
Roast pork sandwich.
7 / 9Roast pork sandwich.Supplied
Baker Aram Yun has developed a bespoke viennoiserie offering. 
8 / 9Baker Aram Yun has developed a bespoke viennoiserie offering. Supplied
Hector’s BLT.
9 / 9Hector’s BLT.Supplied

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Eight years on, sanger specialist Hector’s Deli’s commitment to quality control has resulted in a bakery that not only provides bread to its sandwich shops, but is a destination in its own right. That’s helped by the fact the team has introduced a brand new viennoiserie program. Pastry and sandwich artistry are on full display in the warmly lit chapel of carbs.

Must order: Cinnamon bun. It’s got “Cinnabon vibes”, according to Hector’s owner Dom Wilton, but uses laminated croissant dough.

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