Best Bakeries Worldwide

Lune Croissanterie ★ 4.9

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

Juno the Bakery ★ 4.9

Juno the Bakery is in a quiet corner of Østerbro at Århusgade 48, on the ground level of a five-story residential building, with 8 years of service.

TipOpen Tuesday to Saturday from 7.30 to 18.00 and on Sundays from 7.30 to 16.00; closed on Monday.

Iginio Massari Alta Pasticceria ★ 4.9

Iginio Massari Alta Pasticceria is a fine pastry shop at Via Guglielmo Marconi 4, with panettone in cocoa and chocolate and without candied fruit.

Barrio Bread ★ 4.9

Barrio Bread on South Eastbourne in Tucson is Don Guerra's James Beard Outstanding Baker 2022 bakery, milling heritage white Sonora wheat loaves.

Superthing ★ 4.8

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

TipPain au chocolat and almond croissants sit in a daily selection, and the shop is open Tuesday to Sunday from 6.30am to 2pm.

Gerbino's ★ 4.8

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.

TipThere is lots of seating inside and outside and loads of on-street parking; if you phone, leave a message, as the team is rarely free to answer.

Unbearable Bagels ★ 4.8

Unbearable Bagels at 39 Vernon Terrace in Teneriffe slaps together bagels and brews speciality black coffee, with a menu that changes with the seasons.

TipOnly black coffee is served, with no milk and no sugar, and online orders are pick up only.

Little Baguette ★ 4.8

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.

TipCatering orders need at least 2 days notice, with boxes of mini banh mi, sliders and spring rolls.

Lune Croissanterie ★ 4.8

Lune Croissanterie on Adelaide St treats each croissant as a precise balance of science and craft that takes patience and time, with entry via Burnett Lane.

TipFind the Brisbane City shop through the entry via Burnett Lane, Shop 10, 79 Adelaide St; the site lists a separate Lune South Brisbane store.

Christian Jacques Bakery ★ 4.8

Christian Jacques Bakery at Baildon Street in Kangaroo Point is a French bakery whose croissants are slow-fermented over two days using premium French butter.

TipCroissants are made with premium French butter and slow-fermented over two days; the bakery is open Tuesday to Sunday from 6am to 1pm.

Danny's Bread ★ 4.8

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

TipDanny's Artisan Bakery in Fortitude Valley is the sister bakery, with a cellar door retail space for baked treats at the source.

Dovetail Social ★ 4.8

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.

TipFor same day orders at Highgate Hill call 0474 253 678, or order delivery via UberEATS and DoorDash.

Cakes by Judy C ★ 4.8

Cakes by JudyC has made celebration cakes since 1989 in Ashgrove and prepares weekly take home dinners such as Beef Lasagna and Chicken Pot Pies.

TipTake home dinners are prepared every week; check the Instagram every Tuesday night to see what is cooking.

Simply Cupcakes ★ 4.8

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

TipDelivery runs across Brisbane North, Brisbane South, Brisbane East, Brisbane West and Brisbane City on selected delivery days.

The Bakeologists ★ 4.8

The Bakeologists is a boutique bakery and cafe at 81 Merthyr Rd in New Farm, on a site where generations of bakers have kneaded dough for over 50 years.

TipNanna and grandson Josh sell a larger range of bespoke artisan breads every Saturday from 6am to 2pm at the Davies Park market in West End.

Lune Croissanterie (CBD) ★ 4.8

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.

TipSells out before noon on busy days. Arrive at opening or accept a substitution.

Iggy's Bread of the World ★ 4.8

Iggy's Bread of the World is a bakery at 131 Macpherson Street, Bronte NSW 2024.

Bakerie ★ 4.8

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.

TipThe menu is split into daily pastry and cake, daily sourdough and bread, and daily pie and quiche.

Ullmann's Zuckerbäckerei ★ 4.8

Ullmann's Zuckerbäckerei at Walcherstraße 11A is a confectionery serving pastries, cakes, breakfast and a weekly menu, with every dish also to take away.

TipBreakfast is served until 11:00, and until 14:00 on Saturday, Sunday and public holidays, from a menu that can be downloaded as a PDF.

St-Viateur Bagel ★ 4.8

St-Viateur has hand-rolled and wood-fired Montreal bagels around the clock since 1957, the Mile End benchmark for the honey-boiled, denser city style.

TipBuy them hot by the dozen; a sesame bagel straight from the wood oven needs nothing but your hands.

Carousel Bakery ★ 4.8

Carousel Bakery in St Lawrence Market Upper Level 42 has run the city's reference peameal bacon sandwich since 1977, the Biancolin family the operators.

OrderThe peameal bacon sandwich on a kaiser, choose mustard at the counter.

TipClosed Mondays with the market. The kaiser is soft; the bacon stack mountains. Featured on Bourdain, Food and Wine and the NYT four times.

Livia ★ 4.8

Livia is a family bakery and Italian restaurant at 1399 Commercial Drive, open for coffee and pastries, sourdough bread, and Italian-leaning brunch and lunch.

TipCheck the daily feature sourdough schedule, with flavours such as roasted garlic rosemary and sunflower seed, fig and walnut, and green olive fennel.

Level V Bakery ★ 4.8

Level V Bakery is a small vegan bakery at 39 Kingsway in Mount Pleasant, baking plant-based cakes, pastries and desserts from scratch, with no dairy or egg.

OrderA plant-based cake, baked fresh and uniquely decorated.

TipCake orders need 3 days notice and the shop takes only 5 cake orders per day, so order 1 week to 2 weeks in advance.

Terra Breads ★ 4.8

Terra Breads has a bakery cafe at 1605 Manitoba Street in Olympic Village, baking artisan loaves like the French Loaf and Cranberry Pistachio Loaf.

OrderFrench Loaf, Cheese Loaf or Cranberry Pistachio Loaf, from the signature artisan bread range.

TipThe bakery has a second shop, Bakery and Public Market, at 1689 Johnston Street on Granville Island.

Hart Bageri ★ 4.8

Hart Bageri is a bakery at Gammel Kongevej 109, 1850 Frederiksberg C.

Layers Bakery ★ 4.8

Layers is a tiny Töölö bakery many rate for the best croissants in Finland, run by Finnish-Spanish baker Daniel Tobal Autiokari from a small counter.

TipOpen limited days and it sells out, so go early. The pain au chocolat is as good as the namesake croissant.

Pierre Mathieu Patissier Bordelais ★ 4.8

Pierre Mathieu Patissier Bordelais on Place Pey Berland is the namesake chef's modern patisserie, opened March 2018 after his five-year run as executive.

TipShow up before 11:00 for the Saint-Honore; the Pave Pey-Berland (almond cream, sweet-wine fruit, rum.

Bernachon ★ 4.8

Maison Bernachon has made chocolate in Lyon since 1953 from a blend of 11 varieties of cocoa beans; the shop is at 42 Cours Franklin Roosevelt.

TipTaste the specialties at the tea room and restaurant, which offers pastries as well as typical Lyonnais dishes.

Four des Navettes ★ 4.8

Four des Navettes in Marseille's 7e is the oldest bakery in the city since 1781, the boat-shaped navettes baked in the original Roman-model oven and blessed.

TipWalk in for a paper bag of navettes; Chandeleur morning is the day to come.

Du Pain et des Idées ★ 4.8

Du Pain et des Idées is a bakery at 34 Rue Yves Toudic that first opened in 1875 and sells the Pain des Amis and a chocolate-pistachio escargot.

TipIt is closed Sat-Sun, so go on a weekday for the Pain des Amis, a large bread meant for sharing.

Sironi ★ 4.8

Alfredo Sironi's bakery counter inside Berlin's Markthalle Neun in Kreuzberg bakes Italian sourdough breads; the pane casareccio and focaccia run.

TipClosed Sunday with the market. Friday and Saturday from 09:00 are the busy windows; loaves sell out by 14:00.

Backerei Zimmermann ★ 4.8

Backerei Zimmermann on Ehrenstrasse in Cologne has baked dark rye breads, Brötchen and Mettbrötchen since 1875; one of the oldest family bakeries.

Bake House ★ 4.8

Bake House in Peristeri, at Anapafseos 4, bakes butter croissants, cinnamon rolls and sourdough bread, and its motto is fresh every morning.

TipThe sourdough bread is matured for 24 hours, and the site lists Bake House shops in Athens, Gerakas and Peristeri.

Bantis Bougatsa ★ 4.8

Bantis has produced Thessaloniki's most respected cream bougatsa from a marble counter near Dikastirion Square since 1969. At Panagias Faneromenis 33.

Trigona Elenidis ★ 4.8

Elenidis in Panorama invented the trigona panoramatos, the crisp phyllo triangle filled with cold pastry cream that has become Thessaloniki's most signature.

Bakehouse ★ 4.8

Bakehouse on Tai Wong Street East is Chef Grégoire Michaud's first neighbourhood shop in Wanchai, opened five years after his 2013 wholesale bakery.

Dolcissima ★ 4.8

Dolcissima is an Italian pastry shop and cafe at Frankel Leó út 21 whose cakes follow traditional Italian recipes, from tiramisu to cannoli.

OrderA classic tiramisu, a crisp cannoli or a light panna cotta.

TipIt opens at 09:00 every day, closing at 19:00 Monday to Friday and at 18:00 on Saturday and Sunday.

Málna The Pastry Shop ★ 4.8

Málna The Pastry Shop at Hercegprímás u. 17 makes desserts with premium ingredients and French technique; it won a Dining Guide title in 2022, 2023 and 2024.

TipIt opens at 10:00 and closes at 18:00 on all seven days of the week.

VAJ ★ 4.8

VAJ is a bakery and cafe at József krt. 30-32 serving artisan sourdough breads, pastries, home-made sandwiches and seasonal desserts every day.

TipThe cakes are made fresh to pre-order only and come in several sizes.

arán bakery ★ 4.8

arán bakery at Móricz Zsigmond körtér 16/A in Budapest bakes sourdough bread, classic Irish pastries and Hungarian baked goods, all made on site.

OrderThe sourdough bread, baked on site.

Soroksári Buci Pékség ★ 4.8

Soroksári Buci Pékség, at Grassalkovich út 143, has baked sourdough bread in Soroksár since 1994 and sells 143 handmade products in 18 shops.

TipCakes must be ordered at least 3 days before pick-up, which is at the shop you choose; there is no home delivery.

Buda Rétesvár ★ 4.8

Buda Rétesvár, at Balta köz 4 in the Buda Castle area, bakes traditional Hungarian strudel in flavours from cottage cheese to apple and sour cherry.

OrderStrudel with cottage cheese, apple, sour cherry or poppy seed and sour cherry.

TipIt opens at 08:00 and closes at 20:00 on all seven days of the week.

Naspolya Nassolda ★ 4.8

Naspolya Nassolda at Káldy Gyula u. 7 sells treats that are all at once free of gluten, milk, egg and added sugar; its founders are graphic designers.

TipIt is open Wednesday to Friday from 12 to 19 and on Saturday and Sunday from 10 to 19.

Cserfalvi Cukrászda ★ 4.8

Cserfalvi Cukrászda at Mátyás király út 18 makes every cake by hand rather than on a production line, with special attention to each small component.

TipCake orders go in at least 3 working days before pick-up, by e-mail with the pick-up date and time, the number of slices and the flavour.

Tu-Ri Cookies Cukrászda ★ 4.8

Tu-Ri Cukrászda at Szőlő u. 70 in Óbuda makes premium handmade cakes and pastries, where classic Hungarian confectionery meets modern refinement.

TipIt is open from 10:00 to 18:00 on Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Wednesday.

Forno Pugi ★ 4.8

Forno Pugi has baked in Florence since 1925 and sells fresh bread and schiacciata from its shop at Viale Edmondo De Amicis 49/51R, 50137 Firenze.

TipOpen Monday to Saturday 07:30-13:20 and 16:40-20:20, closed Sunday.

Marchesi 1824 ★ 4.8

Marchesi 1824 is a historical pasticceria making handcrafted delicacies, from classic panettone to pralines, gianduiotti and grand cru bars.

Birdy The Bakery ★ 4.8

Birdy The Bakery, at Vico Belledonne a Chiaia, 14b, calls itself the first real American bakery in Naples and opened in 2012 in the Chiaia district.

TipEverything ordered on its online shop must be collected at one of its locations, and the cakes are for pick-up in store.

Pasticceria Cappello ★ 4.8

Pasticceria Cappello, at Via Colonna Rotta 68, has 80 years of taste adventures behind it and is known for a cake of seven layers of chocolate and hazelnuts.

TipAlongside the cannoli filled with ricotta there is a pistachio delizia; a second shop is at Via Nicolò Garzilli 19.

Insieme al pane ★ 4.8

Insieme al pane at Via Arturo Graf, 35 is a bakery that uses only Italian flours, with dry and fresh pastries and hot pizza and pizzette from its oven.

TipIt opens Monday to Saturday from 7:00 to 21:00 and also prepares cold and hot dishes to order in its own kitchen.