Brunetti Classico - Carlton

Heaven for sweet-tooth ☺️. I have never seen a single shop that presents you with huge range of cake, tart, bakery, eclair or any sweet thing you could think of...as many as in this place. Presentation is perfect, service is good, I re-visit within n 3 days to buy more of what I like. Really recommend 😊.

Had some post movie coffee and cake at the famous Brunetti Classico! It’s lovely, spacious, with plenty of helpful staff. My darker roast double shot flat white coffee was great and the range of sweet treats were consistently tasty. Are they the best cakes in melbourne, probably not, but they are still pretty dang good. Is the whole overall experience iconic and worth doing? Absolutely. They also have a top range of gelato, a full menu too which is wonderful and has filled me up on previous occasions. Familiar and comforting without being pretentious.

Cakes and coffee excellent. Only front end of store for take away cakes wasn't too busy. Parking in area can be tricky to find, cost us $30. The meal ordering end of store was very busy, it was school holidays, we had to line up in 2 different areas. Limited table service. Access to toilets for a mildly disabled group was a nightmare. One way was blocked by equipment, the other, we had to ask people to get up and move to allow us through. Moved a high chair out of the way, then we found the disabled toilet LOCKED WITH A SIGN SAYING TO GO BACK TO REGISTER AND ASK FOR A KEY... RIDICULOUS! I took my disabled client through to ladies toilet and helped her use non ambulant toilet. She couldn't get her walker in there. Then on way back we had to ask people to move (stand up and move aside) to let us through again. Then I did another trip with man on crutches. Luckily one of the staff outside was helpful.

After lunch around the corner 5 of us popped in for a little sweet treat. OK unless you a regular I don't know how you can pick quickly what you will order!! So many sweet treats, cannoli (Nutella, vanilla, chocolate, ricotta), cheesecake (New York baked, cookies and cream etc), macaroons (multiple colours), mini profiterole towers, biscuits, nougat, gelati etc etc etc. Also I was surprised to see such a choice of savoury dishes. Very very busy place but managed to get a table towards the back. Extensive seating outside also. I had 2 mini cannolis (1 Nutella, 1 vanilla), husband had mini New York baked cheesecake while others also had cannolis. And if I could have fitted gelati in, I would have!!! Coffee excellent but would have been shocked if it wasn't. Highly recommend. And the cake display at the entrance will have you wondering what reason you can come up with so that you can justify buying one and taking it home!