The 8 best bakeries in Perth

When you step into North Street Store, remember just two words: cinnamon scrolls. They’re warm and flaky with a generous amount of icing, but just enough that you won’t feel sick eating one or two for brekkie. If you’re more of a savoury slinger then you can also fill up on French-style filled baguettes, stone-baked pizzas and all your classic savoury pastries. The bakery’s 1950s-inspired fit-out is charming, but keep in mind, it’s takeaway only. Luckily, you’re just a short stroll from Cottesloe beach, where you can enjoy your buttery goodness with a view.

Start your day the Parisian way with a flaky, buttery French croissant from Harvest Boulangerie. These guys have mastered the classics, offering a tempting line-up of pain au chocolat, éclairs, apple turnovers, madeleines, crème brûlée danishes and their signature mille-feuille (similar to a vanilla or custard slice). Prefer something savoury? Harvest bakes up Aussie riffs on French favourites, including a sausage hot dog croissant and a bacon and goat’s cheese focaccia roll. Alternatively, grab a sea salt baguette and take a five-minute stroll to Scarborough Beach for a picnic lunch in the sun.

Having lived and worked in Copenhagen, the self-proclaimed bread dorks at Miller + Baker specialise in dark-crust sourdough, heavy rye and morning buns. They make all their doughs from fresh flour, ethically sourced from regenerative local farmers and stone-milled on-site. You can pre-order and pick up a staple loaf any day of the week from their main bakery in Perth CBD or their home base café in Subiaco. Watch their Instagram for monthly specials, with past hits including a sesame caramel scroll, yuzu and vanilla mascarpone cruffin, and vanilla blueberry morning bun. If you’re eager to try baking at home, swing by Miller + Bakery’s Lake Street bakery where they’ll happily share a piece of their treasured 'mother' sourdough starter. 

From their mothership store in Fremantle, these wild bakers have been fermenting, baking and delivering sourdough goodness to markets all around WA. Wild Bakery is best known for its signature 100 per cent sourdough country-style loaf, affectionately named after Hannah, the daughter of founders Daragh and Trish Grier. Pick up something sweet to share too, including chocolate croissants, Swedish buns, orange jaffa cakes and chewy coconut rochers. 

It’s all about the dough at Common Bakery. This Fremantle favourite by Bread in Common is famous for its daily baked wood-fired bread, which you can pick up at their two locations in Nedlands and Broadway. Common Bakery’s long-fermented multigrain sourdough and traditional olive ciabatta fly off the shelves, along with their spiced fruit loaf and dense rye loaf. While you’re there, you might as well pick up a lemon cruffin, cinnamon scroll or vegemite croissant – just pre-order on their website so you don’t miss out.

Mary Street Bakery has become something of an institution in Perth, with five bustling locations (Highgate, City Beach, West Leederville, QV1, Allendale Square) that attract a throng of bread lovers every Saturday morning. Their brioche doughnuts have risen to cult-like status, available stuffed with passionfruit curd, salted caramel and jam, or rolled in cinnamon sugar and 100’s and 1000’s. Grab one of each to share, and continue loading your pastry box with classic croissants, pork sausage rolls, vegetarian pies and fudgy chocolate brownies. Mary Street also serves an all-day breakfast menu, where you can sample their cultured sourdough topped with runny eggs, a generous slab of avo and chilli jam.

Wind your way through the crowds outside La Patisserie South Perth on a weekend and you’re in for a treat. Their dessert case is a feast for the eyes (and later, bellies), with croissants piled high, and fruit tarts and eclairs glossy and tempting. Grab a coffee and perch on their outdoor seating in the sun, or wander down to the riverside as you look over to the city. You can’t go to La Patisserie without grabbing a little something for later. Their loaves and baguettes are crisp on the outside and pillowy-soft inside.