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MesnoyInjera Bakery.
Irving injera packs. Not a restaurant. Sunday maybe.
Location
What people get wrong
77 Irving Street, market side, not Irving Place. Time Out skips Sunday. Some directories print daily 8am-8pm. Lemat on Nicholson is a different, older name. Confirm it separately. We last walked this on 2026-09-21. Hours move with the week. Checking the shopfront keeps the night easy.
What is Mesnoy Injera Bakery known for?
Mesnoy Injera Bakery is known as the weekly injera shop: packets behind the counter so you talk to the people who made them, teff, wheat and sorghum, spices, dry goods, and a green fascia on Irving.
You walk out of Footscray station onto Irving, market side, to 77. Time Out, 23 September 2019, still calls it a one-stop shop for everything injera related and Melbourne's first Ethiopian grocery store. Packets of platter-sized breads sit behind the counter so you are forced to interact with Karim Degal and his mother Meftuha Osmen. They make injera with teff, wheat and sorghum every day on that card, and they stock spices, pre-made curries and dry goods. SBS Food Safari filmed host Maeve O Meara here. That is colour. The job is still a pack of bread and a bag of teff. Graham Denholm's Time Out photographs still show the green sign and the counter. Confirm the glass still matches the photograph.
Leftover copy puts established around 2003 on the fascia Time Out photographed, and the family moved from Ethiopia in 1994 on the SBS piece. Do not treat a blog year as gospel against the glass. Lemat Injera on Nicholson is an older name in local memory. Confirm it before you send anyone. Ghost bakeries waste Saturday.
You came because a shared tray at home needed bread the restaurant will not sell you by the pack, or because a friend said the green sign, and because a visitor who booked Lalibela with an injera-shop letter is how a Saturday dies. Two jobs. Two doors. Stay on 77. The packets behind the counter are the tell. A Sunday arrival is a hedge, not a promise. The shop will take a pack. It will not seat you. It will not open the Irving hall on a Sunday.
What should you buy at Mesnoy Injera Bakery?
You should buy injera, teff, spices, a Maggi tin if that is the shelf, and cash because it still helps at a packet counter.
Ria money transfer sits on the same fascia in the Time Out photograph. That is a second job in the same glass, not a reason to skip the bread. If you wanted berbere in bulk, Paisley. If you wanted dinner, Lalibela next door along Irving. If you wanted the market hall, cross the street on a trading day.
Do not spear injera with a fork in a restaurant and then come here angry that a packet is a packet. Different jobs. Konjo is another Irving stool. This door is the pack.
Stay long enough to match 77 Irving Street to the green Mesnoy Injera Bakery sign. Not Hopkins. Not Irving Place as a different street. After dark Irving is still the market-side walk. Barkly is the brighter spine home if you are continuing. If you parked Albert for the plaza, this is a walk, not a second boom.
Hours and which door at Mesnoy Injera Bakery
Time Out prints Monday to Saturday 8am to 8pm. Directories often add Sunday 8am to 8pm. Call (03) 9687 8855. Last checked 2026-09-21.
The hall opposite is closed Sunday. Mesnoy Sunday is the hedge, not a promise. Time Out does not list Sunday. Other directories do. Confirm glass. Public holidays shuffle. Glance at the glass. The fascia still prints a phone.
Park Irving if you also wanted the market. Do not leave a car for a late drink. The Irving deck is more than 800 bays for the hall. This packet counter is a street shop on the same side. Two jobs. One street.
Do not invent a stall clock from the hall. Wednesday the hall dies at 4pm. Mesnoy on the Time Out card still runs to 8pm Monday to Saturday. That is the stall-versus-hall trap in reverse. Cite this door.
How do you get to Mesnoy Injera Bakery?
Walk Irving, market side, to 77. You will see the green Mesnoy Injera Bakery sign. Footscray station is opposite. Do not hunt it on Hopkins.
Some cards say Irving Place. The door is Irving Street. After dark Irving is still the market-side walk. Barkly is the brighter spine home if you are continuing.
If you parked Albert for the plaza, this is a walk, not a second boom. Buses that dump you on Paisley still leave a walk to Irving. This is not a 3012 shop.
If you already parked for the hall, cross or stay on this side depending which face you used. Do not mash 77 with a stall number inside the hall. Nhu Ngoc is stall 223. This is a street bakery. Name the green sign.
What do people mix up about Mesnoy Injera Bakery?
They treat this Irving packet counter as Cafe Lalibela next door, or they send a Sunday grocery trip on a leftover Time Out card that skips Sunday, or they hunt an Irving Place pin as a different street.
- 77 Irving Street, Footscray VIC 3011 only. Market side. Not Irving Place.
- Time Out Mon-Sat 8am-8pm. Sunday hedged. Phone (03) 9687 8855.
- Packets behind the counter. Karim Degal and Meftuha Osmen on Time Out.
- Restaurant injera is dinner. This is the pack.
- Not Lalibela. Not Konjo. Not Bright Merkato. Not Lemat unless you confirmed Lemat.
Questions people ask next
- Where is Mesnoy Injera Bakery?
- 77 Irving Street, Footscray VIC 3011, market side. Footscray station is opposite. Some cards say Irving Place. The door is Irving Street.
- What are Mesnoy Injera Bakery hours?
- Time Out prints Monday to Saturday 8am-8pm. Directories often add Sunday 8am-8pm. Call (03) 9687 8855. Last checked 2026-09-21.
- How do I get to Mesnoy Injera Bakery from the station?
- Walk Irving, market side, to 77. The hall is across the street on trading days. Do not hunt it on Hopkins.
- Is Mesnoy Injera Bakery open on Sunday?
- Time Out does not list Sunday. Other directories do. Confirm glass. The Irving hall will be closed either way.
Where we checked
More in Markets and retail
Cafe Lalibela
The Irving injera that started the argument. Little Africa is a different suburb.
91 Irving Street, Footscray VIC 3011
Konjo Cafe
All-day Ethiopian next to Lalibela. Kitfo is not a stew.
89 Irving Street, Footscray VIC 3011
Footscray Market
Irving produce hall. Closed Sunday Monday. Park Irving.
18 Irving Street, Footscray VIC 3011