Coming Soon: An Old Favourite Melbourne Bakery is Setting up New Digs in the CBD for the First Time, Set to Reimagine What a City Bakery Can Be
At the new location, Cobb Lane will even introduce a lunch menu for the first time, serving sandwiches, sausage rolls, and pies.
This just in: coveted Melbourne bakery, Cobb Lane, is opening its first city location. The CBD outpost will be located in the new Bennetts Lane Development on Little Lonsdale Street, a site that boasts a baking history dating back to the 1800s.
Owned by pastry chef Matt Forbes and his wife and business partner, Amy Newman, Cobb Lane is an artisan bakery specialising in breads, pastries and cakes, which are available at the South Melbourne Market, Richmond Traders on Bridge Road, as well as for wholesale.
"We've had our eyes on the city for a while now, so when this opportunity came up, we knew it was the perfect spot…Wesley Place is such a rare gem of green space. We love the idea of our guests grabbing a pastry and a coffee and relaxing under the olive tree," says Newman.
At the new location, Cobb Lane will introduce a lunch menu for the first time, serving sandwiches, sausage rolls, and pies. Find Duke's coffee alongside a rotating schedule for filter coffee. "We want to complement the already bustling stretch of Little Lonsdale, somewhere you can grab a sandwich and a coffee on your lunch break, or pick up a fresh baguette for dinner on your way home," says Forbes.
The new location will continue Cobb Lane's legacy while representing the brand's evolution, featuring a more refined, contemporary interior and atmosphere. Forbes wants to revive Bennetts Lane's baking past while rethinking what a city bakery can be, because he says, "Why shouldn't people in the city have access to fresh bread, too?"
Images: Ben Moynihan.
Cobbs Lane is slated to open in late March 2026. If you're after fresh bread and flaky pastries, check out the best bakeries in Melbourne.
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