Filipino Bakeries and Desserts in Melbourne

Filipino all-day café and bakeshop on Spring Street in Melbourne's CBD, run by pastry chef Laurice Fajardo and Elbert Estampador. Makes its own ube halaya for ube cinnamon scrolls, Basque cheesecake, Swiss rolls and drinks, plus silog bowls and longganisa subs.

Filipino bakery on Synnot Street, Werribee, baking pandesal, Spanish bread and other Pinoy breads, pastries and cakes fresh daily.

Filipino bakery and café on Gipps Street, Collingwood, from pastry chef Marishell Evangelista, who grew The Weekend Ensaymada from a home kitchen and coffee van. Known for ensaymada in flavours such as ube, yema and pan de coco, plus pandesal and coffee.

Filipino bakery on Leslie Street, St Albans, near Keilor Plaza, baking pandesal, Spanish bread, ensaymada, pan de coco, ube rolls and hopia; its sister Manila Bread Café & Eatery in Deer Park serves Filipino meals and ube desserts.

Filipino-style bakery, formerly on Churchill Avenue in Braybrook and now on Hampstead Road, Maidstone, baking pandesal, Spanish bread, pan de coco, ube pandesal, ensaymada, hopia and siopao.

Filipino bakery and café on Woods Street, Laverton, baking pandesal, ensaymada, hopia and other Filipino breads, cakes and pastries, also stocked at Filipino and Asian grocers.

Filipino bakery and sandwich bar on Hardware Lane from the team behind Serai, serving fresh pandesal sandwiches such as lamb kaldereta, bulalo and pork belly lechon, plus Filipino pastries and specialty coffee.

Long-running Filipino bakery in Braybrook, opened in 1994 by Nancy “Nanay” Bautista, who previously ran a bakery in Taguig. Sells pandesal, hopia, ensaymada, chicken empanadas, ube cakes and Swiss rolls, plus savoury palabok and lomi.

Café in Caroline Springs run by brothers AJ, Albin and Arbi Lawang, known for Filipino-inspired artisan doughnuts made daily and deli sandwiches such as a spam-and-egg bagel with chicharon; it also has a CBD store on Flinders Lane.

Dandenong Market stall run by chef Matthew Paredes making fresh taho to order: warm silken tofu with arnibal syrup and hand-rolled sago pearls, in flavours such as ube, buko pandan and peach mango.

Filipino café and bakery on Warrigal Road, Chadstone, focused on ube: cakes, crinkles, macapuno cake, ube lattes and halo-halo, alongside silog breakfasts and Filipino comfort food.