Food tours and tastings to book

Best rated first, weighted by reviews, from the cities on this list. One per city.

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All 30 bakeries

Ranked by our editors.

Lune Croissanterie

Lune Croissanterie in Fitzroy is Kate Reid's engineering-informed pastry project: technically exacting croissants cited among the world's best by food media.

Superthing

Superthing croissanterie at 215 Montague Rd bakes fresh, buttery, flaky croissants and other pastries daily inside a rainbow room visible to customers.

Gerbino's

Gerbino's is a family-run Italian bakery and Pasticceria that opened in New Farm in 2003, moved to Ashgrove in 2004 and bakes pastries, breads and cakes.

Little Baguette

Little Baguette at 322 Moggill Rd in Indooroopilly sells mini banh mi and sliders on fresh crust baguettes, plus cakes for birthdays and special occasions.

Danny's Bread

Danny's Bread started in Teneriffe in 2015 to bring great traditional sourdough bread to Brisbane, and sells traditional bread, croissants and pastries.

Dovetail Social

Dovetail Social at 49 Laura St in Highgate Hill serves breakfast, brunch and lunch, with bespoke Dovetail cakes, Dovetail Donuts and a gluten free high tea.

Simply Cupcakes

Simply Cupcakes makes handcrafted cupcakes and cakes, delivers across Brisbane and has convenient pickup locations in Brisbane City, Redlands and Ipswich.

Lune Croissanterie (CBD)

Lune's CBD location on Lonsdale Street brings the Fitzroy standard to the city centre: the same laminated pastry quality, aimed at the weekday commuter crowd.

Bakerie

Bakerie is a bakery at 773 Pacific Highway in Gordon where the ovens turn out fresh bread and pastries early in the morning, made from scratch every day.

Lune Croissanterie

Lune Croissanterie's Sydney shop offers all the classic croissants and monthly specials, with coffee by ONA and hot chocolate from Hunted+Gathered.

Flour and Stone

Flour and Stone is a petite bakery on Riley Street, Woolloomooloo, with a devoted following for its pannacotta lamingtons, flaky croissants and dreamy cakes.

The Pie Tin

The Pie Tin is a pie shop at 1a Brown Street in Newtown specialising in sweet and savoury pies, all handmade daily on the premises from fresh ingredients.

Baker Bleu

Baker Bleu's Cremorne flagship offers 48-hour fermented sourdough, croissants and Roman sourdough pizzas in a large industrial space in the inner suburbs.

Butter Days

Butter Days in Malvern came out of fine-dining kitchens: laminated doughs with Scandi influence and a short opening window that rewards arriving early.

A1 Bakery

  • ★ 4.5
  • Lebanese flatbreads and manakish
  • Brunswick
  • Melbourne

A1 Bakery has been baking Lebanese flatbread and manakish on Sydney Road since 1992: wood-fired oven, fresh za'atar blend and a weekend queue out the door.

Baker Bleu

  • ★ 4.5
  • Dark crust sourdough
  • Double Bay
  • Sydney

Baker Bleu bakes bread and pastries on-site each day at 2 Guilfoyle Avenue, Double Bay, with sandwiches, Roman-style pizzas and hot lunch daily.

Tivoli Road Bakery

Tivoli Road Bakery in South Yarra is the neighbourhood institution: daily sourdough, sausage rolls and granola from scratch in a small bakery off Toorak Road.

Black Star Pastry

Black Star Pastry, established in 2008, created the Strawberry Watermelon Cake of almond dacquoise and rose-scented cream.

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