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Zelda Bakery

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

June 6, 2025

1 / 9Zelda croissants, crowned Melbourne’s best.Supplied

4 / 9Lemon blackberry yoghurt and pistachio cardamom sour cream cakes.Supplied

8 / 9The selection in the window at Zelda.Supplied

Bakery$

Fun-sized and dynamic, this shop does not stop. Find its window filled with cheese and jalapeno pretzels, pistachio-cardamom cake, challah sandwiches, apple hand pies, espresso-walnut brownies, roasted apple bostocks, bearclaws ... the list goes on. Decision paralysis is inevitable, a situation not helped by the fact that Zelda opens just two days a week. Our advice? Throw caution to the wind.

Must order: The traditional croissant – a feathery, buttery thing – took out top spot in a recent Good Food blind taste-test.