Eat
GordonStreet Bakery.
The almond croissant. Eat it on Gordon before 1.
Location
What people get wrong
142 Gordon, Footscray 3011. Closed Monday and Tuesday. Sold out by 1pm. House clock, not Broadsheet 7:15. We last walked this on 2026-09-21. Hours move with the week. Checking the shopfront keeps the night easy.
What is Gordon Street Bakery known for?
Gordon Street Bakery is known for that almond croissant: flaked almonds, almond-cream frangipane, rum in the filling, a pastry you eat standing on Gordon before the tray is empty.
You walk south on Gordon and the white brick is the lock. The fascia says GORDON ST BAKERY. 142 is on the glass. Locale Espresso on the way in, if Broadsheet's Footscray card, updated 27 April 2026, still matches the machine. Inside it is a neighbourhood bakery that grew larger than the first regulars, still small enough that a Saturday queue means something. You sit on the street because butter does not travel, and because Isaac dips this pastry in coffee the way he told Nick Connellan in April 2026: generous, a bit naughty, rum for flavour.
Isaac was born and raised in Paris. The house site still says the west felt just right from the beginning. Broadsheet dates this door after Loafer and Woodfrog, about seven years before the April 2026 piece. Telegramma still treats the $6.50 almond croissant as the famous number, then notes vans now drop sourdough and viennoiserie to a second grab-and-go shopfront. This listing is 142. Coffee stays here. The bake is still this room. You can smell butter from the footpath on a Saturday if you arrive before the suburb remembers it has an oven.
Phone (03) 9318 6204. Site gordonstbakery.com. Instagram @gordonstbakery. English at the counter. You need a pastry, not a postcode argument. Pre-order if a Saturday loaf was the whole job. Walk-in if you wanted the tray that is actually left.
What should you order at Gordon Street Bakery?
You should order the almond croissant if that is why you walked, then decide whether the sitting still wants salt or a loaf that lasts.
Broadsheet's Footscray card still lists plain, choc-almond, chocolate, and a vegan croissant beside it. Connellan says the almond and chocolate-almond fills are the locally famous ones, both almond cream, both with rum. The vegan number is margarine. Telegramma's $6.50 is an August 2026 press price. Ask today. Eat it on Gordon. A paper bag in a hot car is how you turn butter into an essay you did not want to write.
Cheese stick if you wanted salt: puff pastry, Gippsland cheddar, honeycomb holes. Good Food still pushes that salty suggestion. Cheesymite scrolls sit on croissant dough. Cinnamon scrolls if you wanted sweet without nuts. Connellan also names gluten-free chocolate brownies and friands. Ask what the tray still has after 11am. Good Food's rule is early, because this bakery closes by 1pm.
Sourdough if you needed bread that lasts. Broadsheet's card: fig-and-walnut baguettes, white, olive, a dark Danish-style rye with seeds. Later 2026 pieces add rye, multigrain, onion-walnut baguettes, fougasses. Croissants take 72 hours. Laucke flour. Anchor butter from New Zealand. Coffee is Locale on this door. Pre-order on the shop at least 72 hours before pickup if you needed a Saturday loaf that is actually there. Do not email the contact form and hope. The house says that box is not for orders.
Hours, payment and queues at Gordon Street Bakery
Quoted week from the house site: Wednesday 6:45am to 12:30pm, Thursday and Friday 6:45am to 1pm, Saturday and Sunday 7am to 1pm. Closed Monday and Tuesday on Apple Maps. Call (03) 9318 6204. Last checked 2026-09-21. Glance at the glass. Telegramma's rule is early. After 11am you are gambling on crumbs.
Walk-in. There is no booking widget for a croissant. Cards and contactless are normal. Cash still works. Saturday morning is when south 3011 remembers the oven. The queue is shorter than a Hopkins bakery and still real. If the tray is empty, it is empty. Wednesday dies at 12:30pm on the house clock, earlier than the rest of the week. Treat that as a hard stop, not a vibe. If you needed a loaf, you already pre-ordered. If you needed the almond croissant, you are here before eleven.
Broadsheet's directory card still flashes 7:15am on some days. That is their widget. We put the fight in the hours note. Cite the shop.
How do you get to Gordon Street Bakery in Footscray?
You get to Gordon Street Bakery by walking Gordon to 142, the white-brick oven in Footscray 3011, a morning pastry room that dies by 1pm.
Read the glass. 142. GORDON ST BAKERY. You are on Gordon. Seddon station is the closer platform for many walks. Footscray station is the bigger interchange and a longer walk down the same street. Street parking is short. Irving is the market deck, the wrong job unless you already bought herbs on a Saturday. You do not need a reservation. You need to arrive before 1pm and read 142 before the hunger invents another oven.
After you eat, stay on Gordon or Barkly. This counter is shut by early afternoon. A 3pm croissant does not exist here. Plan daylight, then the walk. The white brick is the lock on a morning street. You smell butter before you read 142. Sit on Gordon if the weather allows. A croissant in a paper bag for later is how you waste rum and almond cream. Monday and Tuesday the oven is dark. That is the week, not a rumour about another suburb. Butter on the fingers is how you know you came to the right door.
What do people mix up about Gordon Street Bakery?
They file the white brick as another suburb, or they come Monday, and they miss the almond croissant that only lives at 142 until 1pm.
- 142 Gordon Street, Footscray VIC 3011 only. Phone (03) 9318 6204.
- Wed 6:45am-12:30pm. Thu-Fri 6:45am-1pm. Sat-Sun 7am-1pm. Closed Mon-Tue.
- House clock, not Broadsheet 7:15. Confirm the glass.
- Almond croissant. Cheese stick. Sold out by 1pm.
Questions people ask next
- Where is Gordon Street Bakery?
- Gordon Street Bakery is at 142 Gordon Street, Footscray VIC 3011. Seddon station is often the closer walk. The house postcode is still 3011. This listing is the Footscray oven.
- What are Gordon Street Bakery hours?
- House clock: Wednesday 6:45am-12:30pm, Thursday and Friday 6:45am-1pm, Saturday and Sunday 7am-1pm. Apple Maps prints Monday and Tuesday closed. Broadsheet still flashes 7:15am on some days. Confirm the glass. Phone (03) 9318 6204. Last checked 2026-09-21.
- What should I order at Gordon Street Bakery?
- The almond croissant if you came for the pastry Broadsheet and Good Food both name, rum in the frangipane on the April 2026 quote. A cheese stick if you wanted salt. A sourdough loaf if you needed bread that lasts. Coffee is on this door.
- Does Gordon Street Bakery take pre-orders?
- Yes, on the shop page, at least 72 hours before pickup. The house contact form says pre-orders do not go through that box. Instagram @gordonstbakery.
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