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14 Melbourne bakeries serving excellent baked goods (including this top-tier pie)
Melbourne has long enjoyed an international reputation as a great place to eat. Historically, it's been as much about the diversity of the offering as the sheer excellence of the cooking, but in 2025, the care and detail that put it on the map is coursing through its bakeries, and the world is watching with hungry eyes.
These business have caught our attention and the list that follows is part of Good Food's Essential Melbourne Cafes and Bakeries of 2025. Presented by T2, this guide celebrates the people and places that shape our excellent cafe and bakery scenes and includes more than 100 venues reviewed anonymously across 10 categories, including icons, those best for food, tea, coffee and matcha, and where to get the city's best sweets, sandwiches and baked goods. (These reviews also live on the Good Food app, and are discoverable on the map.)
Bakemono
The often lengthy queue snaking down Drewery Lane – a cobblestoned laneway just off Little Lonsdale Street – is worth joining for the pastries at this tiny Japanese-inspired bakery. Shoji-style timber panelling is found throughout, including framing a large window that allows eager customers to peep into the pastry kitchen before entering. Specialty treats might include manju, a sweet bun hailing from Japan, while various croissants, Danishes and loaves of fluffy milk bread make regular appearances.
