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Where to Find the Best Donuts in Melbourne
Iced, glazed, sprinkled or classic cinnamon sugar, we know the places to go for the best donuts in Melbourne.
While the donut versus doughnut debate may never be settled, Melbourne’s affection for fried dough needs no committee. This is a city that will cross suburbs for a glossy glaze, a custard-filled centre, a hot jam classic dusted in sugar, or a cream-loaded number requiring a napkin, a strategy and absolutely no shame.
From old-school icons to new-school pastry counters turning the humble donut into a full-contact dessert, these are the best donuts in Melbourne worth leaving the house for.
DOH – Daily Oven Heaven
DOH lands at Queen Vic Market like the new-school cousin to American Doughnut Kitchen’s jam-filled van, giving Melbourne’s donut map a Korean cream chapter. Short for Daily Oven Heaven, this QVM shop works with milk-enriched dough and generous fillings, from Biscoff and chocolate to sweet potato, ang butter and Korean sweet corn. The last one is the sleeper: corn paste, custard and cream, made even better with a corn latte on the side.
9 Dhanga Djeembana Walk, Melbourne
Joey’s Doughies
Joey’s Doughies turns QV’s Food Hall into a bright little sugar counter for CBD office workers, students and anyone whose errands have taken a dangerous turn. Founded by Joe La and Brian Taing, the shop makes handmade donuts, crullers, old-fashioned rounds, scrolls and coffee, with a rotating cabinet that might run from crème brûlée and OG glaze to Dubai chocolate and maple walnut. Go early; this is not a place for late-afternoon optimism.
QV Melbourne, Level 1 Food Hall, Melbourne
Hector’s Kiosk
Hector’s Kiosk gives Bourke Street a tiny doughnut counter with big city charm, swapping the brand’s famous sandwiches for maple-glazed, cinnamon and kiosk-only specials. Sitting at Melbourne’s GPO, it feels made for tram-stop temptation: a paper bag, a glossy glaze, a coffee and five minutes stolen from the CBD rush. Flavours can run to strawberry milkshake, rum and raisin, chocolate peanut butter and evaporated milk, so arrive early before the cabinet thins.
Melbourne’s GPO, 350 Bourke Street, Melbourne
G-Free Donuts Melbourne West
G-Free Donuts Melbourne West is less bakery counter, more Melbourne rite of passage: hot cinnamon and jam donuts between footy quarters, market strolls and weekend provisions. Gluten-free and dairy-free, they still land exactly as a good donut should: warm, sugared, soft-centred and gone too quickly. Find them at the MCG, MCC, Richmond’s Gleadell Street Market and Flemington Farmers Market on the 2nd Sunday of the month.
MCG, MCC, Richmond Gleadell Street Market & Flemington Farmers Market
Moon Cruller
Moon Cruller is the weekend-only Fitzroy offshoot from the Lune Croissanterie crew, dedicated entirely to the cruller’s crisp-edged, feather-light charms. Made from choux pastry and fried into golden, ridged rings, these are donuts with a little French polish and a serious cult following. The regulars span cinnamon sugar, vanilla and dark chocolate, with seasonal specials bringing the fun, from bright fruit glazes to richer dessert-led turns. Go early, order decisively and pair your haul with Ona coffee, Mörk hot chocolate or chai.
Sitchu Tip: Keep an eye out for Moon Cruller’s tiramisu donut. It’s the sort of special worth planning around, and pre-orders are your friend if you have your heart set on one.
50 Rose Street, Fitzroy
Pecks Road
Pecks Road has brought its Filipino-inspired artisan doughnuts from Caroline Springs to the CBD, and Melbourne’s sweet-toothed set is better for it. Founded by chef and former personal trainer Albin Lawang with his brothers, this cult bakery-cafe is known for soft, generous doughnuts and flavour turns that nod to Filipino and Asian sweets, from ube-filled beauties to turon-style bomboloni, apple fritters, cinnamon twists and Vietnamese coffee crullers.
Shop 3/234 Flinders Lane, Melbourne
Shop A6/1-7 Caroline Springs Boulevard, Caroline Springs
Hector’s Deli
Hector’s may be Melbourne’s sandwich crush, but its donuts have earned their own loyal following. The original maple-glazed number is the signature: glossy, golden and soft enough to make a very convincing case for ordering dessert before lunch. Cinnamon has its own fan club, while Hector’s Kiosk on Bourke Street has pushed the lineup further with flavours like strawberry milkshake, rum and raisin, chocolate peanut butter and evaporated milk.
Richmond and South Melbourne
Sloppy Joe’s Deli
Sloppy Joe’s Deli brings big sandwich energy, coffee and house-made doughnuts to the CBD. The namesake Sloppy Joe is the obvious first move, with Angus beef sloppy sauce, pickles and American cheese in a brioche bun, but the sweets cabinet deserves equal attention. The maple bacon doughnut is the cult order, landing somewhere between sweet, salty and gloriously unnecessary, while the day’s rotating flavours keep things interesting. Go hungry, leave sticky-fingered.
Shop 2 / 190 Queen Street, Melbourne
Shortstop Coffee & Donuts
Shortstop Coffee and Donuts does exactly what it says on the tin, only with far more finesse than the name lets on. At its tiny Sutherland Street store, donuts are made fresh on-site throughout the day, with natural ingredients, specialty coffee and a flavour list that knows how to keep a classic interesting. The Cinnamon, Cardamom & Sugar is the not-so-humble signature, fragrant and nostalgic in all the right places, while the Maple Walnut & Brown Butter brings a richer, nuttier kind of devotion. Earl Grey & Rose, Triple Matcha and the Australian Honey & Sea Salt Cruller are all worth eyeing off if you’re building a box.
12 Sutherland Street, Melbourne
All Day Donuts
This little Brunswick gem churns out big, fluffy and brightly frosted doughnuts like the Don Homer, a raspberry-glazed and sprinkled number that looks like it came straight out of the Simpsons. Every day they switch up their selection with wacky and unfailingly delicious flavours, made to be devoured alongside a hot filter coffee. Some of our favourite donuts in Melbourne, no lie.
12 Edward Street, Brunswick
Doughboys Doughnuts
Doughboys has been keeping Melbourne in excellent doughnuts since 2013, with a Bourke Street shop turning out handmade, from-scratch rounds for the CBD crowd. The flavours move around, which is half the fun, but the current cabinet might swing from Pecan Maple, French Toast and Pistachio to Cinnamon, Vanilla Glaze, Chocolate Glazed and bright seasonal old fashioned numbers. Order a box if you’re indecisive, which you will be.
535 Bourke Street, Melbourne
CBD Bakery & CBD Pies
CBD Bakery brings country-bakery nostalgia to Bourke Street, with pies, sandwiches, slices and donuts made for office runs, lunch breaks and mid-afternoon sugar detours. The cabinet keeps things old-school: cinnamon rings, iced donuts, jam balls, mini filled numbers and Long Johns, all fresh, familiar and deeply satisfying. Pick one up from the original Bourke Street bakery or the newer CBD Pies outpost on Queen Street for a city treat with country spirit.
CBD Bakery, 480 Bourke Street, Melbourne
CBD Pies, Shop 4, 118/126 Queen Street, Melbourne
Penny For Pound
Penny For Pound gives Richmond’s Bridge Road a pastry counter worth crossing town for, with croissants, cakes, scrolls and doughnuts made fresh for the early birds. Its fig, honeycomb and orange crème brûlée doughnut helped build the legend, but the cabinet keeps changing, from cinnamon rings and raspberry jam classics to seasonal specials worth checking on the day. For locals, this is less errand than Saturday ritual.
387 Camberwell Road, Camberwell
7 Cochranes Road, Moorabbin
Bistro Morgan
Bistro Morgan built its name on maximalist doughnuts long before Melbourne ran out of patience for boring pastry. Now trading from Fitzroy, Morgan Hipworth’s bakehouse turns out handcrafted doughnuts, cookies, scrolls and seasonal sweets with a sugar-rush sense of occasion. The famous Cookie Monster is the one to watch for if it’s in the cabinet, loaded with cake-batter nostalgia, white chocolate, Oreo crumb and sprinkles. Subtle? Never. Fun? Absolutely.
400 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy
Levain Doughnuts
Levain Doughnuts goes big on handmade, yeast-raised doughnuts, the sort built for birthdays, office bribes and late-night sugar detours. From its Mentone base, this Melbourne outfit turns out boxes of jam, vanilla glaze, Ferrero, Cookies & Cream, Lemon Meringue and other cream-filled, ganache-dipped numbers, with vegan packs and flourless options also in the mix. Order online for delivery, catering or pickup, or head bayside when only a box will do.
100 Nepean Highway, Mentone
Piedimonte’s Supermarket
We’ll let you in on a very good secret: the ricotta donuts made fresh each morning at Piedimonte’s in Fitzroy North deserve a place among the best donuts in Melbourne. Made in-store by the beloved neighbourhood grocer’s pastry team, these Italian-style beauties are soft, sugared and wonderfully fresh, with ricotta folded through for a delicate, creamy lift. Head in early, because the locals are very much onto them.
37/49A Best Street, Fitzroy North
TODCO (The Oakleigh Donut Company)
TODCO serves Oakleigh’s sweet-toothed spirit to the city’s doughnut map, with artisan doughnuts fried and decorated in small batches throughout the day. Since 2017, the family-run favourite has grown from its Portman Street base to Richmond, South Yarra and Chadstone, with 30 flavours spanning yeast-raised, cake, choux, vegan and gluten-free styles. Go for the Greek-leaning specials if they’re in the cabinet; they’re the signature move.
Oakleigh, Richmond, South Yarra & Chadstone
Candied Bakery
Candied Bakery has made Spotswood a sweeter place to cross the river for, with a counter that moves between American bakehouse comfort and European pastry craft. The vanilla slice doughnut is the headline act, filled with crème diplomat, glazed, crowned with puff pastry and rightly counted among the best donuts in Melbourne. Savoury pies, sausage rolls and sandwiches have their place, but good luck leaving without something sugared in the bag.
136 Hall Street, Spotswood
American Doughnut Kitchen
American Doughnut Kitchen has been feeding Queen Vic Market queues since 1950, and Melbourne’s devotion has barely cooled. The order is beautifully unchanged: hot jam doughnuts, fried in the van, rolled through sugar and handed over in paper bags while the market moves around you. Filled with raspberry-plum jam and best eaten too soon, they remain one of the city’s great breakfast loopholes.
Queen Victoria Market, Queen Street, Melbourne
Tivoli Road Bakery
Tivoli Road Bakery sits just off Toorak Road, giving South Yarra the sort of pastry counter that makes a quick coffee stop dangerously elastic. Bread may be the backbone here, with sourdough, pies and sausage rolls doing steady trade, but the doughnuts have their own following. Flavours rotate, from custard-filled classics to fruit, caramel and chocolate-led specials, so go early, scan the cabinet and let the day’s batch decide for you.
3 Tivoli Road, South Yarra
Loving our pick of the best donuts in Melbourne and looking for more baked delicacies? Check out the best bakeries for a sweet treat, and the Melbourne-based cake shops that have all your sugar needs covered.
