Brisbane, in Queensland, Australia, has been growing its reputation as a baking hot spot for some years now. Today, it has specialists in cakes, canelés, croissants, and cannoli, and a thriving sourdough scene.
Whether you want a rustic Italian loaf, a thin French baguette or a good old Aussie meat pie, there’s bakery for you in this dynamic city. You just need to know where to look. And thankfully for you, we’ve done all hard work and popped the answers in this article.
So check out a greedy baker’s dozen with us as we take you through the best bakeries in Brisbane.
Sure, Brewbakers lists itself as a sourdough bakery. And sure enough, taste the bread and you’ll want to live there forever, because the smell alone is enough to make a wise man weep.
French, Spanish, Spelt – name a sourdough loaf style and they probably have it – made fresh every morning from organic, locally sourced flour. Oh, and by the way, all their sourdoughs are vegan, so come one, come all!
But Brewbakers is about so much more than bread. As an artisanal bakery doing things the traditional way. In fact, the sweets and pastries are good enough to take you to Paris without leaving Brisbane.
Make sure to buy some pastries (Oh man, the caramel slice…) just to entice your whole party – eventually – out the door.
Location: 20 King Street, Bowen Hills, QLD 4006 Ph: (07) 3180 3980
We’re off to Bowen Hills for the next of our best bakeries in Brisbane.
Born out of the closure of the Montrachet restaurant in 2017, the King Street Bakery boasts a gang of internationally trained bakers producing breads, pastries, Viennoiserie and more, while also serving the more pedestrian needs of its clientele with pies, sandwiches, pasties and sausage rolls.
It’s a bakery that’s not above feeding your need for buttery, flaky, salty joy (try the smoked ham and gruyere croissant, it’s like a delicate hand grenade of flavours), but if you want your millennial fix, it’ll happily sell you some kickass avo toast too.
It’s a “go for breakfast, stay till they throw you out” kind of place, and while you can eat perfectly healthily there, it’s almost an insult to the French technique, the butter and the sugar that runs through its veins to do so.
Of course, some of the best bakeries in Brisbane have their specialities.
Ever eaten a canelé?
Ever lived? If you’ve never done the one, the chances are you haven’t done the other, and you really, really need to.
And if you really, really need to while you’re in Brisbane, you probably need to get your butt to Bella & Tortie, because canelés are a rarity, and Bella & Toritie has made them a speciality.
If you don’t know, they’re a kind of long-baked custard with a crispy caramelized outer shell. Trust us, you need some canelés in your life.
Bella & Tortie does other things too, of course – it’s a cutting-edge contemporary bakery, supplying cakes, tarts, savoury pies and sausage rolls.
But if you leave without taking at least half a dozen canelés home with you, it’s like going to Sydney and not seeing the Opera House.
We stay in Grange for the next entry on our look at the best bakeries in Brisbane.
Best known for its corporate catering, but also renowned for perfection in cupcakes, Mr T’s Bakery will help you scratch that cupcake itch while you’re in town.
Yes, they do all the savoury goodness, too – pies, sausage rolls, etc – but really, the must-have at Mr T’s is something from the army of cupcakes on their menu.
Grab a handful of cash, fling your inhibitions to the wind, and indulge in the chocolate lover cupcake box. No, it’s not subtle – it’s chocolate, dammit! – but it’s one of those decadent pleasures that make it worth staying alive for.
With a brioche that’s second to none and a high-powered croissant game, Crust & Co is worth seeking out.
You… may just possibly miss it the first five or six times, as it’s discreet to the point of perversity. However, when you find it, you have a European fusion of baking joy to look forward to, as the bakers at Crust & Co practice both French and Italian artisan baking.
Editor’s Note: We have been informed at Crust & Co has closed. We will let you know when we know more. As this is the case, why not try this place instead…?
Location: 85 James St, Fortitude Valley, QLD 4006 Ph: (07) 3062 2346
What began as a Covid era pop up from the Agnes Restaurants has morphed into a permanent baking arm. And thank goodness. For Agnes Bakery, with its huge wood-fired oven – is without doubt one of the top bakeries in Brisbane.
With a full array of Sourdoughs – including the fabulous Smoked Potato, Chocolate Tarts and more, this is a place that you really must try if you find yourself in the neighbourhood.
Our recommendations? It’s hard to go past the Almond and Custard Kouign Amann if you have a sweet tooth. That said, the Potato and Rosemary Danish is a wonder if your taste buds lean towards the savoury.
Whilst it’s not the cheapest of our best bakeries in Brisbane, the quality of the produce is so superb, it’s worth the extra expense. Just make sure you get there early. With bread and pastries this good, the queues begin as soo as they open.
Also at 4/621 Wynnum Rd, Morningside, QLD 410 Ph: (07) 3161 6246& 77 Redcliffe Parade, Redcliffe, QLD 4020
From some of the most perfect choux you’ll find in Brisbane (try the eclairs or die miserable!) to elegant fruit tarts, to some more traditional English butter cake, you’re going to want to drop in at Flour & Chocolate.
Drop in hungry, and with some space in the trunk, because this is a bakery where you really think you’re done… annnd then discover you can’t be done quite yet. If you try to sample everything while you’re there, you’ll burst, and that will be less than pretty.
Try what you can, take a lot of baked goods home, eat mostly sweets for the next couple of days. That right there is the Flour & Chocolate factor.
Ever been to a custom croissanterie? Ever been to one in Brisbane? Look no further.
Superthing is the home of all things French and laminated, and can give you everything from the perfect almond croissant (more or less the size of a human foot, and with much better nibbling) to (get this!) an eggs benny croissant that defies belief, especially if you have room for the fusion explosion that is a tiramisu croissant to follow.
If you live for the buttery, flaky wonder that is the never-humble croissant, you’re going to need to check in at Superthing.
Superthing also caters to the less French breakfast trade, so if you want a morning granola or a simple avo toast, you can do that. But – and we mention this simply by way of merciless temptation – if you want to get your avo on, you can get an avo croissant here too.
Chouquette also had a shop on Edward St, Brisbane City, but this is currently closed.
If you want your French patisserie with a little of the elegance that makes it stand apart from the rest of the world, track down Chouquette.
It’s a little tucked away, like all the best patisseries in Paris, but the range is superb, and if you want the perfect Paris Brest or an immaculate Millefeuille, it’s the place to go.
Sure, we’ve had French this, French that, even a croissanterie to bring the pleasures of French patisserie and breakfast joy to you at several points around Brisbane. What if your vibe’s less French and more Italian?
Then you’re going to form an orderly line outside Gerbino’s Italian Bakery.
It bills itself as Brisbane’s only Italian bakery. There may be start-ups that disprove that, but there’s no disproving the quality of Gerbino’s offering. And either way, it’s certainly one of the top bakeries in Brisbane.
Where else are you going to get an authentic Sicilian deep base pan pizza, sold whole? Where are you going to get richly flavoured arancini? And where are you going to get exquisite semifreddos across a whole range of flavour profiles?
So you want more reasons? Where else for Italian biscotti and the dark, rich coffee to go with them?
Finally, where else in Brisbane are you going to get cannoli in three sizes, from the mini to the full-size Godfather authentic crispy shells of pastry crème and pleasure?
Mm-hmm. Exactly. If you need your fix of genuine Italian baking, you know the movie got it right – leave the croissant, take the cannoli from Gerbino’s.
Location: Merthyr Village Shopping Centre, 85 Merthyr Road, New Farm, QLD 4055
Say what? One of Brisbane’s best bakeries is in a shopping mall?
Yeah, it surprised us too. But from the range of freshly made artisanal breads to the glazed doughnuts that are sweet but never too sweet, Village Bakes had us converted fast and hard.
Family-run and baking 7 days in every week, their breads in particular have the convenience of the supermarket, but the flavour of artisan.
Also at 584 Waterworks Rd, Ashgrove, QLD 4060 Ph: (07) 336 0611 & 25 Samuel St, Camp Hill, QLD 4152 Ph: (07) 3172 3054
Natural deliciousness is the name of the game at Banneton Bakery.
Breads with no artificial additives or improvers, made in the most artisanal ways possible. Bagels with just the right pull and chew. All that good, happy, stomach-pleasing stuff.
If you’re looking for elegant French patisserie, you’re looking for somewhere other than Banneton bakery. You’ll get plenty of sweet treats there, though – brownies, blondies, cake bars and the like.
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And they’re not above some positively ravishing Viennoiserie – we’re not sure what they do to a simple-sounding apple galette, but damned if they don’t do something to it!
While you can have all that sweet fun, though, really if you’re stopping off at Banneton, you’ve got to take some bread home. For our money, the NY Deli rye bread with caramelised onions folded through the dough is a must-have.
We’re off to Graceville for the next of our best bakeries in Brisbane.
Boulangerie Patisserie means bread and cake, and that’s – if you’ll excuse the mixed metaphor – the meat and drink of Miettes.
If you want to try something that really shouldn’t work on any level, but will have you craving more, try the earthy, rich, semi-sweet beetroot chocolate cake.
Also at 97 Sandgate Rd, Albion, QLD 4010 & RW12, 12/46 James St, Fortitude Valley, QLD 4006 & Shop 17/25 Samuel St, Camp Hill, QLD 4152
Jocelyn’s Provisions is something a little different. While, absolutely, this is one of Brisbane’s best bakeries (the long bacon, Swiss, and onion tart alone is a hymn your tongue sings.
Stick around for the lemon tart and your tastebuds dance with angels), you can also get more hardcore provisions there – fancy a whole glazed ham? No problem.
They bake their own cookies too – and their take on the Australian speciality, the ANZAC biscuit, is a thing to behold.
If you like Jocelyn’s Provisions – and you did, didn’t you? – you should love Cake & Bake, as they share some DNA.
Jocelyn Hancock opened Cake & Bake with the intention of sourcing local ingredients and baking them into her cakes and pastries to give a really local flavour that you can’t get anywhere else. Call us hedonistic, but the chocolate sour cream cake is the actual bomb.
The last of our best bakeries in Brisbane is all about bread.
Artisanal organic sourdough bread.
We know you just conjured up the look and the smell of that in your mind. Danny’s Bread makes it day in, day out, and sells it about as fast as you imagine.
There are sweet treats too – the tarte aux fraises will make you glad to be alive, and the Swiss roll has a surprising elegance to it. But really, if you go to Danny’s Bread and you don’t take some sourdough home, do you even carb, Bro?
When it comes to great places to eat in Australia, the list really is endless. There are so many different restaurants, cafés, and chains to try that you really are spoiled for choice. From Italian food, to Japanese food, to a good ‘ole rump steak, the food options are endless.
This is why I decided to set up my blog, Eatability, to share the best food and drink spots in Australia with as many people as possible. Hi, my name is Dylan Cole, and I moved to Australia five years ago from England, UK.
Through this blog, I will be sharing and recommending some of my favorite places you need to visit, such as where to find the best pizza in Adelaide, and the best bakery in Brisbane. Whatever food you are fancying, I have got you covered!
