Okay I’ve been here twice. The first time through some freak of chance, I was able to walk straight in without having to wait at all. On this occasion, I can say the croissant was amazing. Totally worth the hype. Like eating the most delicate, savoury, buttery and crisp leaves. The second time, I thought I would try to recapture that experience. Well I ended up waiting for two hours. You don’t think the line will take that long, but this was a test of endurance. Sunk cost stupidly prevented from abandoning the line. And after that? Let me tell you – no croissant, no matter how good, is worth waiting that long for. Of course by this point, the queuing itself has become some sort of weird and essential Melbournian contemporary art installation. What kind of weird first world privilege has people lining up for bread? Is that the joke? We could be in some sort of famine and war ravaged country, hungry and waiting for our only meal to share with our destitute family. Instead we are thoroughly middle class, in one of the most expensive cities in the world, paying a ludicrous amount of money for luxury pastries. Bonkers

Location

Shop 16/161 Collins St, Melbourne VIC 3000