Little Sister Bakery

Overview

This humble family-run bakery has quietly become a powerful player on the Melbourne bakery scene, with five shopfronts now pumping out some of the best bread and pastries in town. Little Sister lives by a simple philosophy: time-honoured recipes, executed with contemporary precision, to create beautiful bread for sharing. 

Little Sister focuses on classic French baking traditions and locally sourced natural ingredients — combined with Middle Eastern and Mediterranean flavours — to create their signature loaves, rolls, focaccias and sweet and savoury goodies.  

You can taste the care and time that has been put into each and every product at Little Sister. Whether it's 72-hour fermented sourdough or focaccia baked fresh every day, the proof really is in the pudding (or the bread) at Little Sister, with the consistent and excellent quality of the product proving no corners are cut in this kitchen.   

While everything at Little Sister tastes as good as it looks, signature items include the seeded focaccia, with an irresistible salty and crunchy exterior, and the Sofia loaf, which is a dark, dense and nutty bread made with wholemeal flour, mixed grains, seeds, fibre and a hint of honey. 

The bakery is renowned for its loaded savoury pastries and breads. Focaccias are topped with an array of moreish combinations such as cheese, mushroom and onion, zucchini and feta, and tomato and pesto. You can also find shakshuka or sabich (a traditional fried eggplant sandwich) stuffed inside doughy pockets, as well as cheese and za'atar twists, or thick and crusty slices of pizza. 

On the sweet front, Little Sister excels in everything from croissants to scrolls to cookies. The cinnamon scrolls often sell out before midday, the Portuguese egg tarts are some of the best in town, and the chocolate challah is a favourite weekly special. The bottom line is that while it may be hard to decide, you simply can't go wrong with any choice at Little Sister. 

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