If you’re looking to make your Easter holidays in 2022 the best one yet, Melbourne is the place to be! Melburnians have practically mastered Easter recipes, so you’re surely in for the best food in the city.
An Easter weekend in Melbourne won’t be complete with hot cross buns, wine, and chocolates, so we’ve rounded up the best places to get them:
Hot cross buns
- Wild Life Bakery
- Baker D Chirico
- Q Le Baker
Wine
- Yarra Valley Wine Tour
- Around the Bay Food and Wine Taste Trail Day Tour
- Mornington Peninsula Wine Tour
Chocolate shops
- Mörk Chocolate Brew House
- The Ministry of Chocolate
- Pana Chocolate
Hot cross buns
1. Wild Life Bakery
This Brunswick-based bakery offers one of the must-try hot cross buns in Melbourne for the Easter holidays this 2022! Wild Life Bakery specialises in 24-hour fermented loaves, giving you the taste of Easter with its sourdough-based and dense, yet airy, hot cross buns. Spiced with candied orange, sultanas, and currants, these buns are good enough to eat even without toasting.
2. Baker D Chirico
Looking for traditional hot cross buns to enjoy with the whole fam this 2022 Easter holidays? Baker D Chirico gives you just that with their classic formula of these massive, naturally-leavened buns! With the perfect mix of juicy currants and their orange and ginger purée flavours, these hot cross buns will surely leave you full this Easter.
3. Q Le Baker
Q Le Baker is your go-to artisan bakery in South Yarra for specialty whole wheat sourdough pastries. Their lightly spiced hot cross buns are famous for their thick crust and biscuit-like cross. You can enjoy them simply toasted and buttered, but we recommend adding a layer of jam for that added sweetness!
Wine
1. Yarra Valley Wine Tour
Celebrate the Easter holidays this 2022 with your S.O. with a Yarra Valley Wine Tour—the birthplace of Victorian wine. Enjoy a full course meal with a glass of estate wine after your wine tasting tour at Yarra Valley’s three hand-picked wineries. After the tour, you can even pick up some sweet treats at the Chocolaterie & Ice Cream Factory!
2. Around the Bay Food and Wine Taste Trail Day Tour
Around the Bay Food and Wine Taste Trail Day Tour is where you can have a long relaxing weekend Easter holiday with the best food, beer, wine, and sceneries. Enjoy the views of an old French provincial barn house where you can also sample some premium cool maritime climate wines.
3. Mornington Peninsula Wine Tour
Discover delicious food and great wine at the Mornington Peninsula Wine Tour. Friendly cellar door hosts and winemakers welcome you and your mates as you take a tour of their wineries and uncover the secrets of wine-making.
Chocolate shops
1. Mörk Chocolate Brew House
Chocolate-lovers can’t miss out on one of Melbourne’s best artisan chocolate shops for the 2022 Easter holidays—Mörk Chocolate Brew House. This chocolaterie sources cacao liquor from Venezuela, cocoa powder from Ghana, and unrefined coconut blossom sugar from West Java to create the perfect chocolate mix. From tarts and cookies to pralines and marshmallows, Mörk Chocolate Brew House has every chocolate treat you can think of!
2. The Ministry of Chocolate
Easter wouldn’t be complete without Easter eggs! The Ministry of Chocolate, home to some of the finest chocolates in Melbourne since 2012, creates a variety of chocolate goodies for every occasion. Most importantly, they make chocolate eggs perfect for a ton of Easter egg hunts!
3. Pana Chocolate
Vegans, rejoice! Pana Chocolate won’t let your Easter holidays go without chocolates with their dairy-free, soy-free, gluten-free, and vegan chocolates. Made with cacao powder, agave nectar, and coconut nectar, Pana Chocolate’s sweet treats will surely complete your Easter celebrations.