To Be Frank Bakery

This bakery has taken the place as our favourite bakery in the area. The pain au chocolat and toasty seem very different but both were exceptional. Even their hot chocolate and chai latte were of quality close to some of the best specialty shops we tried. We got some shortbread biscuits and chocolate chip cookies to go, they were delicious too. I think this place exemplifies “they didn’t have to go this hard” but it seems they are good at everything they deem worthy to present to guests.

The pastries are heavenly and rivals the best of Melbourne - think Lune, All Are Welcome etc. Each time I’ve been, we’ve ordered about 8-9 different pastries. They are in the true sense of the word, a proper boulangerie. But if I’m going to pay nearly $7 for a coffee, I don’t think it’s too much to expect a proper barista made coffee with a microfoam. The bean and roast itself is fine, perhaps I should have ordered a long black instead. Anyway. Their range of savoury laminated pastries is really impressive. They don’t just focus on the sweets. One of the coolest things about this bakery is their exposed back end and the super awesome 5 layered oven… oh and of course the graffiti. Little story here: I ordered two babyccinos, they’re usually served with a sweet treat like a marshmallow or cookie or something. They ran out of baby cups, fine. Served them in paper cups. Fine. Came without the sweet treat and their response was “oh I’m sorry if I had them I’d give them to you”. It’s like going for a Japanese meal and ordering a rice which typically comes with miso and saying “oh we don’t have or we’ve run out of miso, if I had some I’d give it to you”. This seems to be heading down the route of Melbourne establishments getting a bit too much up themselves and forgetting it’s the F&B / service industry. I hope it doesn’t. The boulangerie goods here are really bloody good. I’m giving it three stars but would’ve four if not for that coffee because the pastries.

Dec 7th, 2024 Mango cheesecake Bomb $8.5 Eggplant + cheese with Tahini + sesame + paprika $7.5 I want to visit again to try their loaf 🍞 Seems pretty nice and soft

This place is INSANE (so much better than the nearby, Lune)! So many delicious options and probably the BEST almond croissant we’ve ever had. We also got the salami, goats cheese and zucchini pickle pastry as a savoury option which was equally as delicious. The coffee is great too. This is easily our new favourite bakery.

This bakery serves coffee, pastries, sandwiches and bread. The quality of sandwiches was super low and almost no ingredients. They cell 8 dollars value sandwiches for 16 dollars. Quality of food: 3 Staff and behaviour: 3.5 Vibe: 3 Parking availability: 3.5 Value for money: 2

So good place and food, so good variety of croissants, many salted options, I personally loved the pastramy with green sauce, also they have an option with authentic Argentinean Dulce de Leche and they sell Dulce de Leche aswell, I highly recommend this place. The reason behind why I give 4 stars 🌟 is because they don't warm up the croissants, which would be amazing, so I recommend to buy 1 day before and eat at home, so you can warm it on your air fryer.

📍To Be Frank, Collingwood Okay, this may be my favourite bakery in Melbourne. I was blown away by how many delicious options they had here (and from lots of different cultures too!!), making it so so hard to choose options. In the end we got a pepper and goats cheese twist (delicioussss), an eggplant and tahini scroll (also so so yum), a brown sugar kouign-Amann (a French pastry that was great, I bloody love brown sugar) and an Argentinian pastry with dulce de leche (yum but I just don’t think I love dulche de leche too much, but the pastry had sooo many layers!!). I am more of a savoury gal so loved them more, but it was all fantastic. The coffee was also delicious and they had incredible foccacia that I am dying to try. Limited seating here is all, but that’s just because it’s so popular (and for good reason!!). Overall 4.6 ⭐️ out of 5.

Lovely place to go have breakfast lunch or snack. Ordered cinnamon roll (the best) and pistachios pastry, and the cake, it was delicious and not too sweet. Also the chia latte with almond milk is wonderful. Services is great and quick. Plenty seat for inside and outside.