Ned's Bake

🍩 caramel custard & pistachio donut 🍯 salted caramel kouign amann 🍊 chocolate & orange danish 🫒 olive grissini 🥖 fig grissini 🏠: @nedsbake 📍: South Yarra 📝: Ned’s bake is the place to go to when you’re looking for fresh loaves or bakeries. There’s a selection of 15 different French and Italian-style loaves, as well as a large and colourful display of pastries, tarts, buns and savoury items . ❤️: Words cannot explain my love for their World Donut Day special last weekend, the Caramel Custard and Pistachio Donut. So good!! Creamy filling and a nutty pistachio topping 😍. The Salted Caramel Kouign Amann with dulce de leche filling was also SO GOOD 🥰—can I have more please 😂!!!

Ned’s Bake Cafe is an exceptional venue to visit on your trip to Melbourne or for your daily pastry & coffee run if you are a local. If you have the opportunity to meet the owner on your visit, you will be met with someone who treats you like family or a close friend not just another patron. He is engaging & appreciates every customer he meets with. The food is fresh & has amazing flavour. I have a new found love for this place & will definitely go out of my way to return when I travel to Melbourne in the future.

When I’m the area, I often park in the near by street, this place is always packed, and I love my breakfast and pastries, so decided to give this a shot. The eggs, mushroom, pulled pork on brioche was quite rich and filling, but also over priced for what it was, the French toast had too much fruit on it, which overwhelmed the actual French toast. Grabbed a chocolate croissant for breakfast the next day, it was delicious. Overall, the good tasted good, but I found that $98 for breakfast was steep for me. I’d like to try their breads next time, but not breakfast.

Given that it was a public holiday morning, I understand how busy it was at the cafe but I must say that the customer service was terrible beyond words. None of the staff members had a smile, they were rude and made me feel like I should not be there. At one point I felt like they were scolding me for something I did wrong. We sat at the outdoor table, and the staff was in such a rush, took our orders, came to ask the same questions to confirm our coffee orders with a very rushed attitude. Worse than that, when we went to pay at the cashier, the lady at the cashier was extremely rude. We purchased some pastries, cookies and bread to take home with, and as I was ordering she aggressively spoke to me like a child “I can’t hear you because it’s really loud here.” I had my mask on so I shouted my orders to her but she laughed at me. It was our wedding anniversary and traveled half an hour away to celebrate at the cafe but other than the bread we ate, nothing appealed to us. The coffee was mediocre, customer service was terrible, it’s very unfortunate that it’s become such a bitter experience for me. Marketing, Instagram, design and branding is absolutely stunning and welcoming, and the moment I stepped into the shop, the experience was only a disappointing one, almost abusing. The staff must be so overworked with not much support. The bread was amazing though.