North Melbourne loves Bread Club. The mint-green bakery opened on Queensberry Street in 2020, just before Covid hit, and it’s still pulling a crowd. A year later, owners and French bakers Tim Beylie and Brice Antier crossed the river to open a second location in Albert Park.

Before Bread Club, the pair worked at some of Melbourne’s best bakeries – Beylie at Woodfrog and Vue de Monde, Antier at Baker D Chirico. And now they’re doing great things out on their own.

The new south-side spot on Cardigan Place serves all the usual Bread Club suspects. That means flaky plain and almond croissants, fruit-adorned danishes and hefty cardamom scrolls, plus hot cross buns (including a chocolatey version) for Easter. Also find family-sized sourdough loaves; pies with rotating fillings such as eggplant in Napoli sauce with ricotta; spinach-and-ricotta rolls; and $10 Simple Sandwiches (think mushroom, stracciatella and onions pickled in-house; and mortadella with house-made giardiniera, or Italian pickled vegetables.)

But those who know Bread Club probably know about its killer weekend specials. Expect pepperoni pizza and a vego alternative perhaps topped with zucchini, feta and garlic; and fougasse (French-style focaccia) that might be herb and garlic, or bacon, jalapeno and rosemary – it depends what Beylie and Antier can get from their suppliers and feel like making on the day.

The light and bright space, with the word “ Bonjour ” tiled at the entrance, has an almost identical fit-out to the North Melbourne location. It’s splashed with that signature mint green, and a matching La Marzocco coffee machine that almost outshines the cabinet full of breads and pastries on a hulking green quartzite benchtop. Espresso comes from Coburg North’s Inglewood Coffee.