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Dua Bakehouse

This bakery is a finalist for best bread and pastries in Good Food’s Essential Melbourne Cafes and Bakeries of 2025.

Assorted sweets at Dua Bakehouse.
1 / 6Assorted sweets at Dua Bakehouse.Supplied
Inside Dua Bakehouse’s new store.
2 / 6Inside Dua Bakehouse’s new store.Supplied
Dua Bakehouse sells pandan princess cake, a riff on the Swedish sponge. 
3 / 6Dua Bakehouse sells pandan princess cake, a riff on the Swedish sponge. Supplied
Leftover pandan princess cake.
4 / 6Leftover pandan princess cake.Supplied
The cosy Collingwood store.
5 / 6The cosy Collingwood store.Supplied
Dua Bakehouse sells pandan princess cake, a riff on the Swedish sponge. 
6 / 6Dua Bakehouse sells pandan princess cake, a riff on the Swedish sponge. Simon Schluter

Dua Bakehouse

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This sibling to CBD bakehouse Raya casts the net wide for inspiration and its cabinet looks like no other around town. Staff in the open kitchen shape pillowy shokupan rolls and slice slabs of potato rosemary focaccia. Cakes are no-rules mashups that work, whether matcha-banoffee pie or pandan-marzipan Swedish princess cake. Drinks might be TikTok-ready but their quality isn’t an afterthought, especially the malted strawberry matcha.

Must order: Pork and prawn sui mai sausage rolls are country-bakery-meets-yum-cha magic.

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