The Best Bagels in Melbourne for a Hole Lot of Yum

Melbourne’s love affair with the bagel runs deep, with trendy cafes and humble local joints across the city baking, slicing and filling their own. Seriously, who doesn’t love a bagel? The versatile ring-shaped bread can be enjoyed with sweet jams or salty deli meats alike, offers the textural delight of a soft, chewy interior contrasted with lightly crisp edges, and can satisfy the keenest of hungers for breakfast or lunch.

From thick New York-style bagels filled sky high with pastrami, to wood fired Montreal bagels slathered with vegan cream cheese, there’s a shop here selling every kind imaginable. Here’s where to find the best bagels in Melbourne.

Best Bagels Melbourne: CBD

It’s Bagel

At It’s Bagel on Queen Street, mornings unfold over glossy, slightly-charred bagels — dense, chewy and toasted just right. Cream cheeses arrive like little indulgences: chives, truffle, smoked salmon with a hint of dill. Fillings pile on generously: folded egg, cured salmon, harissa pumpkin or crisp bacon. Laid-back and unpretentious, it’s a spot where Melbourne bagels hit every mark, satisfying a noon-day hunger without ceremony.

2/50 Queen Street, Melbourn

Bagel Hut

Melbourne CBD’s Bagelhut is a quiet little victory for bagel lovers. Set on Little Lonsdale Street, it’s all about soft, freshly baked bagels with toppings that range from classic cream cheese to smoky salmon, egg salad, and pesto chicken. Choose your canvas — plain, sesame, everything, blueberry, or jalapeño cheese — and let the flavours do the talking.

162 Little Lonsdale Street, Melbourne

Bobby’s Coffee & Bagels

This pocket-sized bagel shop is a perennial favourite with CBD workers for their strong coffee and bouncy bagels. They’re available any way you like, whether that be toasted open and topped with avo, pickled chilli and sumac, in a sandwich filled with pastrami and gruyère or simply schmeared with herby cream cheese.

Rear 57 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne

Bricklane

Sit down for brekky at Bricklane, and your bagel arrives sliced, toasted, and open-faced. No jaw gymnastics required. Choose from plain, sesame, everything, blueberry, or jalapeño cheese. Let the carefully curated fillings do the talking: from classic PB&J and Vegemite to fresh avo with tomato and feta, or pesto chicken. The bright, homey cafe hums with sunlight and leafy greenery, where mornings linger a little longer, coffee is savoured, and every bite lets the bread — and the simple, thoughtful flavours — truly shine.

CBD, South Melbourne & Prahran

Best Bagels Melbourne: Western Suburbs

Bang on Bagels 

These bagels really are bang on (pun intended). Moonee Ponds’ Bang on Bagels serves soft, pillowy creations stacked with smoked salmon, egg salad, breakfast favourites — don’t skip the hash brown — and even a Big Mac–inspired beef option that’ll have you daydreaming of New York streets. Take a bite, close your eyes, and for a fleeting second, Times Square feels almost within reach. Maybe that’s a stretch — but honestly, we can’t get enough. Every bagel lands just right: comforting, playful, and unapologetically delicious.

284 Union Road, Moonee Ponds

Migrant Coffee

We’re quietly obsessed with West Footscray’s Migrant Coffee — and really, who isn’t? It’s the westside’s go-to for coffee and bagels, and the menu explains why: New York-style dough meets Filipino, Thai, and Island twists, blending classic favourites with flavours that feel like home. More than just a cosy, welcoming spot, Migrant Coffee is QPOC-owned and run, standing proudly for equality and inclusion. Founded by two best friends, first-generation daughters of immigrants, it’s a place to linger, connect, and celebrate culture. Here, bagels are just the beginning — the real magic is in the community it brings together.

3/576 Barkly Street, West Footscray

Ritzy – Bread, Coffee, Bagels 

Ah, Moonee Ponds, you cheeky little bagel lover. But fear not, Melburnians, for Ritzy is also in East Brighton. A haven for bread devotees, Inglewood coffee enthusiasts, and bagel aficionados alike, Ritzy tempts with a generous parade of sweet and savoury creations — always freshly made, always irresistible. Their cheesy chicken and pesto bagel? It lands with a comfort that sneaks up on you, the one you’ll find yourself thinking about long after the last bite.

25 Pratt Street, Moonee Ponds

605 Hawthorn Road, East Brighton

Best Bagels Melbourne: Eastern Suburbs

Baker Bleu

Baker Bleu has quietly become a Melbourne treasure, elevating bagels from humble breakfast staple to artisanal obsession. Boiled, baked, and kissed with just the right chew, their New York–style bagels are a masterclass in texture and flavour. Top them simply with cream cheese or venture into layered creations: smoked salmon with capers, poached chicken with green goddess, or tahini beetroot with avocado. Add a coffee or fresh juice, and suddenly a morning ritual feels like a small, glorious indulgence. With locations across Caulfield North, Hawksburn, and Cremorne, it’s a destination worth returning to again and again.

Caulfield North, Hawksburn & Cremorne

Circle Bagel & Cafe

At Circle Bagel & Cafe in Hawthorn, bagels arrive glossy, plump and impossibly chewy, built to cradle generous fillings without a hint of collapse. Cream cheeses and spreads flirt with the unexpected — jalapeño heat, herb feta, or classic smoked salmon with capers — while eggs, pastrami, avocado and bacon pile on like they mean it. Bright, unpretentious and perfectly paced for a city morning, it’s where coffee hums alongside, and even the busiest commute can slow for a bagel bite that genuinely delights.

729 Burwood Road, Hawthorn East

Hank’s Bagelry

Hank’s Bagelry is bringing the magic of New York–style bagels to Armadale, and it’s worth the hype. Star bites include beetroot and gin–cured salmon with fresh herbs, red onion and cream cheese; a bagel stacked with grilled bacon, folded egg and harissa mayo; and for veggie fans, the #8 loaded with harissa-roasted pumpkin, almond feta, hummus and wild rocket. Sweet tooth in tow? Grab a homemade cookie, an indulgent shake, or a perfectly brewed Inglewood coffee. Here, bagels aren’t just breakfast — they’re an experience.

13 Beatty Avenue, Armadale

Mile End Bagels

Mile End Bagels is a Melbourne institution with a Montreal twist. Bagels are boiled in honeyed water and woodfired until golden, subtly sweet, and crispier than their New York cousins. Bakers rise at 4am to craft each round, ready to be stuffed high with sweet or savoury fillings. Go classic with a plain, herby, or vegan cashew schmear, or dive into smoked salmon, brisket, or chicken bagelwiches. With stores across the inner north and east, Mile End serves iconic bagels that have locals lining up and visitors making the pilgrimage.

Fitzroy, Brunswick, Richmond & Hawthorn

Bissel B

This leafy green corner cafe is turning bagels into art. Bissel B serves soft, pillowy rounds sprinkled with seeds or gluten-free, alongside doughnuts, cookies, and even circle-shaped hash browns that steal the show. Each menu item nods to a New York landmark — from the indulgent Wall Street, stacked with fried egg, bacon, hash brown, and sausage, to the virtuous Upper East Side, layered with roasted pumpkin, feta, spinach, and yoghurt tahini. Breakfast, lunch, or a mid-morning pick-me-up, it’s a full-circle affair for Richmond and Elsternwick locals and wandering food lovers alike.

111 Bridge Road, Richmond

312/314 Glen Huntly Road, Elsternwick

Lawson’s Bagels

Never one to skimp on the fillings, a bagel from Lawson’s is the kind you need to hold with two hands. One of these big boys will keep you full from breakfast until lunch and beyond, with popular fillings including addictive chipotle scrambled eggs, smashed avo and cheese and  thick beef pastrami.

51 Toorak Road, South Yarra

729 Burwood Road, Hawthorn East

Best Bagels Melbourne: Northern Suburbs

Masses Bagels

Five years of pop-ups, markets and hungry queues later, Masses Bagels has scored a permanent home — and Collingwood just levelled up. These hand-rolled, boiled, and baked bagels already have a cult following for their chewy insides, glossy crusts and generous fillings. Keep it classic with a sesame schmear or go all in with stacked sandwiches built for serious appetite. Swing by once, and odds are you’ll be back every weekend. Bagel cravings in the north? Consider them officially sorted.

5 Smith Street, Fitzroy

Take Two Bagels

For hand-rolled, boiled and baked bagels delivered fresh each morning, Take Two Bagels is the faithful shrine Brunswick locals return to on repeat. The line-up reads like a roll call of devotion: sesame, poppy, plain, blueberry, cinnamon-raisin and even gluten-free for good measure. Order one straight-up with a lush cream cheese schmear, or lean into the kitchen’s signature combinations. The #2 layers basil pesto, tomato, lemon-dill cream cheese and a flicker of crispy chilli oil; the #3 melts mortadella and cheese with dill pickles, herb cream cheese and mustard; while the #5 is the bacon-and-egg breakfast of champions. Bagel nirvana, served daily.

105 Lygon Street, Brunswick East 

Bagels Baby

In a former butcher’s shop reborn with glossy good looks, Bagels Baby is rewriting Melbourne’s bagel script. Sure, you’ll find the classics — smoked salmon with capers, bacon-and-egg for the morning crowd — but the real thrill lies in its curveballs. A vegan curried eggplant katsu, pulled pork with slaw, or a strawberry–ricotta number that straddles breakfast and dessert. Each comes with a crunchy handful of crisps and pickles on the side, plus a strong coffee or a Yarra Valley lemonade from Yumbo. The result? A bagel bar that balances tradition with playful irreverence Brunswick does so well.

36 Derby Street, Pascoe Vale 

44 Main Street, Greensborough 

Bagels & Co

We just discovered one of our favourite breakfast bagels, and you’ll find it on Sydney Road in Brunswick. Bagels & Co know how to hit it out of the park with their simple-yet-inspired toppings, often with a Mediterranean twist. Our pick? A poppyseed bagel stacked with gooey egg, avocado, tomato and chilli. At lunch, the crumbed chicken delivers serious bang for your buck, while the smoked salmon bagel ranks among the best in Melbourne. The bagels strike that perfect balance between soft and firm — made for sinking your teeth into. Add chips and pickles for maximum pleasure.

627 Sydney Road, Brunswick

Best Bagels Melbourne: Bayside & South-East Suburbs

Tuckshop

From lockdown pop-up to fully fledged neighbourhood haunt, Tuckshop hums with the aroma of strong coffee, generous salads and bagels worth rearranging your Saturday for. These aren’t your average rounds of dough — think hanger steak with molten Swiss, pastrami-cured salmon with just the right briny hit, or satay tofu layered with crunch and spice. The green-tiled takeaway window has become a local beacon, but linger at the outdoor tables and you’ll be rewarded with sides of pickles, crisps or golden hash browns. It’s a bagel shop with chutzpah — and the crowds know it.

3 Tuck Street, Moorabbin

Huff Bagelry

Huff Bagelry is where New York dreams meet Melbourne streets. These vegan bagels — boiled, baked, and gloriously chewy — are ready to be stuffed with smoked salmon and capers, roasted vegetables with hummus, or egg, bacon, and avocado. Sweet-tooth allies can chase them with indulgent shakes and homemade cookies. It’s a no-frills, counter-service gem where the bagels do the talking, and the loyal locals do the eating.

Carnegie, Bentleigh, Mentone, South Melbourne, and Fitzroy

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