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A chef holds a large croissant filled with cream and topped with honey joy pieces
Photograph: Pete Dillon

Wrap your tastebuds around Lune's monthly specials

Including a nostalgia-inducing honey joy croissant and a savoury mushroom and blue cheese tart

Jade Solomon
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Jade Solomon
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Every day is a special day at Lune, purveyor of the world’s best croissants (well at least many people believe this to be true – this writer included), and Lune's March specials are taking things up a notch. It's been ten years since Kate Reid sold her first fantastically flaky croissant from a tiny kitchen in Elwood, and Melburnians have been basking in the buttery goodness ever since. March is chock-full of heavenly creations, so you'll need to be speedy to get your hands on one. 

You'll find the specials below, and because they vary between locations make sure to check out what is available at each store beforehand to avoid disappointment when you finally get to the front of that never-ending line

Need more buttery goodness in your life? These are the best patisseries in Melbourne.

Pastry porn

Choc chip cookie pain au chocolat
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Choc chip cookie pain au chocolat

This decadent pain au chocolat is filled with milk chocolate chips and a biscuit frangipane then topped with melted dulce chocolate ganache and chunks of crumbled chocolate chip cookies. We're drooling at the mere thought of it.

Honey joy twice-baked croissant
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Honey joy twice-baked croissant

Did someone say nostalgia? This twice-baked croissant is filled with cornflake frangipane, honey joy pieces and honey cream, before being loaded with even more crunchy honey joy pieces. 

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Kaya cruffin
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Kaya cruffin

This cruffin is filled with creamy kaya custard, topped with toasted coconut chips and then rolled in desiccated coconut and sugar. 

Mushroom and blue cheese tart
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Mushroom and blue cheese tart

This savoury pastry tart is filled with mushrooms, parmesan bechamel and blue cheese – one is simply not enough, so be prepared to grab a couple. 

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Cinnamon bun
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Cinnamon bun

This sweet pastry is filled with cinnamon sugar and roasted walnut crumble before being slathered in a cream cheese icing and topped with walnut pieces. 

Toffee apple and whiskey danish
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Toffee apple and whiskey danish

This danish is filled with a caramelised apple jam and whiskey-spiced creme diplomat, then loaded with a feuilletine and brown butter crumble. 

Carbs, carbs and more carbs

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  • Caulfield North

When a bakery supplies bread to some of Melbourne's best restaurants (think AtticaCutler and Co and the Carlton Wine Room), you know it must be doing something right. And at Baker Bleu, it seems they really are doing everything just right, nailing everything from the inimitable country wheel and the crusty ficelles to the chewy bagels and savoury olive fougasse. What started as a humble suburban operation back in 2016 has grown into an almost national sensation, with stores popping up across Melbourne and Sydney – and the more bread they make, the more the people want. Queues are a given, as is the fact that many of the items sell out before closing time, but that's all part of the fun: it's like a race to see who can get there in time to snag the last Vegemite and cheese scroll, the final potato and rosemary pizza or the last sourdough chocolate chip cookie. There simply is no denying that Baker Bleu is serving up the best bread in Melbourne

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  • Collingwood

Falco Bakery focuses on traditional baking techniques with a few flourishes to keep the product true to its Collingwood home, using locally sourced ingredients with a focus on the seasons. Expect Swedish cardamom buns, vegan chocolate brownies, sourdough English muffins and fresh-baked loaves accompanied by Falco's own coffee, roasted in-house. Those in the lane snaking down Smith Street share a collective understanding that the wait, no matter how long, really is worth it at Falco. Don't miss the sandwiches here either, which are made using thick slices of housemade bread with the perfect crust.

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  • Brunswick East

Tearing into the crunchy caramel crust of Wild Life Bakery's sourdough feels like holy communion with carbs. Toasties arrive thick as a forehead and big as a face, while old-school salad sambos achieve new crush status when folded into chewy sourdough baguettes, lifted with the zip of pickled carrot and tempered with soft avo and roast beetroot. Do as the locals do and arrive for breakfast then leave with lengths of baguettes and fruit loaves tucked under your arms.

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  • South Yarra

This artisan bakery specialises in pastries and whole wheat sourdough bread, producing some of the more complex and interesting loaves in town. Q Le Baker uses locally sourced flours and produce sourced from other vendors in the Prahran Market, producing high-quality baked goods. We never leave without a baguette, and it's hard to go past the sausage rolls. We refuse to pick a favourite pastry but our weekend box of goodies usually includes a twice-baked chocolate hazelnut croissant, a kouign-amann, the weekly Danish special and a cookie.

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All Are Welcome
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  • Northcote

All Are Welcome is bringing quality sourdough to the lucky locals in Thornbury, Northcote and Ivanhoe East. The specialty flours, currently sourced from Miller Baker James (biodynamic certified), Wholegrain Milling (organic certified) and Tuerong Farm (sustainable practice), mean that this bread is not only outrageously tasty, but good for the environment, too. Expect seeded sourdough, fruit loaf and Finnish rye and for something sweet go the peach, ricotta and honey walnut focaccia. 

The pretty pastel interiors of this store are almost as eye-catching as the baked goods are tasty. Serving up outstanding bread and baked goods in Albert Park and Northcote, Bread Club is certainly a club of which we desperately want to be a member. From crusty baguettes and morish fougasse to piping hot pies and loaded sandwiches, you'll want to make sure you arrive hungry. Save room for a crispy cookie or a gooey custard tart. 

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  • South Melbourne

In a city inundated with excellent bread options, Austro Bakery in South Melbourne makes its mark with offerings of Euro-centric baked goods. Pretzels, sandwiches, tarts and doughnuts will be vying for your attention, singing their carby siren call. From the street, you can view a patissier working hard in the open kitchen, rolling and kneading dough. With produce almost entirely sourced from the neighbouring South Melbourne Market, you’ll have your work cut out for you when trying to decide what to pick. Savoury items come in the shape of stuffed ciabatta bread rolls, rye bread pretzels, toasties and impossibly crispy pizza slices. Sumptuous scrolls, tarts and cakes are also on offer – the flavours changing depending on seasonal produce.

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  • St Kilda
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Woodfrog Bakery has quietly grown from its little shop in St Kilda to now having 14 outposts that sling its 28-hour, naturally leavened, hand-shapened soir, fruit, spelt, pumpkin and olive loaves built off an eight-year-old starter. True devotees pre-order their bread to avoid disappointment, which we would strongly advise if you’re stalking out famous hot cross buns around Easter. Woodfrog also serves up an excellent almond croissant, a stellar chocolate babka and some of the best flavoured scones in Melbourne. 

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  • Fitzroy North

We like eating carbs and feeling righteous – hence our love for Loafer Bread. The bakery is committed to sourcing top quality ingredients from sustainable suppliers, and uses organic and biodynamic products as much as possible, including milk, meat and eggs that are free-range and ethically sourced. Snag everything from a cinnamon scroll or a Danish, to an egg salad baguette or a focaccia with capers and cheese. 

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  • Collingwood

To Be Frank Bakery is an artisan bakery in the backstreets of Collingwood. The bread is made through long, natural fermentation from organic or sustainable products that have been responsibly farmed. The open-format warehouse allows bread-lovers to watch their loaves being fermented, folded and shaped before being loaded into a multi-deck oven and transferred to the shelves, from which they fly off into the lucky hands of customers in no time at all.

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Tivoli Road Bakery
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  • South Yarra

Salted caramel doughnuts, loaves of rye and golden croissants fill every cabinet and wooden rack in this shop. Find a seat if you can and settle in for a morning of people-watching and pastry-eating. This also happens to be one the best pie shops in the city. So good, in fact, we'd settle for just sitting on the curb to stuff the peppery contents of a beef pie into our mouths. Get in before the mobs at lunch when fat sandwiches on rye and multigrain cause wars.

A1 Lebanese Bakery: Brunswick
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  • Brunswick
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A1 is a beloved Sydney Road institution that has been keeping cash-strapped students fed with Lebanese zaatar pizza, cheese pies and spinach triangles, all for under $5 a pop since 1992. This bakery also has a Middle Eastern grocer attached to it, so you can pick up packets of house-baked pita as you stock up on pomegranate molasses, sumac and baklava.

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  • St Kilda

The heaving display of flaky croissants, beef ragu pies, meringues and loaves is as daunting as it is impressive, but this bakery is best known for the fermented whole wheat bread with a loose-knit texture and nutty sesame crust and Easter fruit buns (be warned, the queues in April are carnage).

Glick's Cakes and Bagels
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  • Abbotsford

Glicks is a Jewish bakery that has been servicing bagel die-hards for many decades with an almost endless variety of the holey bread: plain, poppy, sesame, onion, sourdough, garlic, cinnamon raisin and choc chip (and that's just to name a few). Glicks also specialises in a wide selection of European and traditional-style bread, pastries, cakes and take-home food products such as dips and sandwiches. 

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This sourdough micro-bakery located in Ripponlea specialises in gourmet breads and baked goods, but is well-known for its babka products, too. Its sourdough babka scrolls are almost too good to be true: sweet and pillowy dough is stuffed with a chocolate filling and covered in crunchy streusel, making for a magically morish mouthful. Zelda's has garnered a loyal following since it opened, and those with the inside scoop know the bread and pastries are worth queueing for. 

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