On day 2, Mary and I had to work off some of the carbs from the first day of the tour. So we upped the route to more than 40kms – no reduction in the number of pastry shops to review.

The focus of day 2 was the eastern and south eastern suburbs of Melbourne. The route I’ve linked to starts at Kooyong Train Station and follows many of the beautiful Melbourne trails. If you need to shorten the route you could finish at Fairfield Train station – saving the last 15kms returning back to Kooyong. You would also need to check the route near the Yarra as some parts have been closed for works.

Sucre du jour – our first stop for the day was a patisserie that was strong on good Asian flavours. I had a delightful Miyuri, which comprised black sesame sponge, hazelnut crunch, kabosu ganache, black sesame chantilly. Mary, feeling the effects of the day before opted for a more modest Portuguese tart. This is definitely a good spot to visit.

Bromley’s Bread – located in suburban Carnegie must be a local favourite amongst the Carnegie households. A good range of pastry covering a range of tastes. Here I opted for a benchmark test of a pain au chocolat. Which Bromley’s passed with flying colours.

While not officially part of the pastry tour, we passed by one of my favourite spots in Melbourne – Haiku and its convenience store Haiku Future. We had a cheeky lunch of broccoli tempura and karaage.

Vienna Patisserie and Bakery – this is best described as a traditional patisserie located in Kew. Its offering was sound and it no doubt served its local community well – but it didn’t have stand out offering. Mary kept to the mini tarts while I opted for the larger fruit and almond tart. Delicious but amongst the crowd we’ve been visiting not outstanding.

Frank and Harri – this was the standout for the day! This was just down the road from Vienna and everything was becoming a bit of a blur. So we opted to take some goodies home. I had the raspberry danish – which, when I finally ate it back at our home location was the best raspberry ‘danish’ I have had in decades. In fact, it used to be of fantastic quality fresh raspberries took me back to the Pompidou Centre in Paris where I had a similarly good raspberry tart. It was that good. Mary choose a Louise cake, which she was similarly positive about. Thus is a Melbourne MUST DO!

Just in case you have not had enough coffee by the end of this pastry tour, you can pop by Kissaten Alphington for a Japanese inspired coffee.

From here you can return to Kooyong along the river or pop over to Fairfield Station.