A European-style patisserie and cafe serving everything from pastries to pizza.
A stone’s throw from the South Melbourne Market, the Darling Group (Higher Ground, Top Paddock, The Terrace) has expanded its cafe portfolio with this handsome patisserie and eatery spanning the former Bibelot and Chez Dre sites.
Entering off Coventry Street, you’ll find a six-metre-long glass cabinet filled with everything from classic eclairs to pistachio-cream-filled choux pastry, as well as large-format celebration cakes. Moving into the 150-seat dining area, there’s an all-day menu that runs the gamut from cinnamon-sugar-dusted French toast (made with croissant loaf), to a Middle Eastern-style fry-up brekkie, to pizzas made with 72-hour-fermented dough.
Upstairs is a production kitchen churning out 600 sourdough loaves, 1000 croissants, and 800 brownie pain au chocolats a week exclusively for the group’s venues.
