A1 Lebanese Bakery

Conviennent dips to buy. Love them for quick dips! Pita bread. Close to home! Lots of customers!

The best bakery ... always busy which is a good sign of good food , great variety of Lebanese pitas, zaatar & great prices . Love this place always make the effort to go past
Kids love their haloumi pitas !!!

I came here for one thing, and one thing only. Ful Medames.

It is sometimes described as the poor man's food, and it may be that, but I don't care. I love it! I could make it at home, but I never seem to find the time to make it properly. When I'm in Melbourne, this is what I look for. And A1 does it so well. It is hot (temperature, not spicy) when it is brought to the table, but I prefer to eat it at room temperature. That's fine. I can wait. No one is rushing me to eat fast and get out of the place. (Well, maybe I am the one who is trying to rush myself and get out of the place. It is noisy. Not unduly noisy. Just ... noisy for me, because I'm used to country living now, and I like things a little quieter these days.)

The beans, the chickpeas, the pickled vegetables, the olives, the wedge of raw onion, the tomato. And the fresh, Lebanese bread. Ah, what a meal.

I'm satisfied now.

It's my first time trying out Lebanese food and I think it's awesome. It's actually a bakery so I got to try different kinds of pastries. I especially love the tomato pizza. The bread it's really soft and fluffy. And for a pizza it's just minimal toppings, not like your conventional ones with oil and cheese on top. It's really light and nice.

We too ordered 2 spinach pastries. Sorry I do not know the real name of these food, but feel free to check out the photos I've posted for more info.

So there is one spinach pastry with cheese, which is creamy and wrap in the same light airy bread. The other one is without cheese which has a sour tangy taste. Both tasted great.

We too had another pizza with is filled with olives, tomatoes, cucumber and cheese spread. That's just something I've never tasted before. It's totally not like our conventional pizza.

We too ordered a bowl of pickles, which is turnips in pink colour, and cucumber and olives. I wails say the pink turnips tasted a lot like our Chinese pickle that we cooked soup with.

To end it we had some sweets called baklava. They are a kind of puff pastry but has a chewy texture and it's sweet and awesome.

To end it we had a cup of hot latte in such a cold weather. It's just awesomeness!

Where to start,

Been going to A1 since I was born, I would say best Zaatar and cheese pie to ever be made, always prompt and very consistent and warm overall simply delicious and can't be beaten.

Our north side gem! I have been here multiple times, and I always leave feeling satisfied. Finally tried the pizza and asked the staff for recommendations - it was between the Garlic Chicken or Sausage, and we chose the latter. Suffice to say, I was smiling from ear-to-ear with every bite. Koodos for the great recommendation, it's one of the best pizzas I've indulged in (photo attached).
We also ordered the half-and-half platter this time (photo also attached) and absolutely loved everything on it, including the tahini dip. I'm glad they expanded the seating space to make way for more eat-ins. You can also grab freshly baked flat bread and a selection of groceries here. A1 gets 5-stars from me, and I will keep going back.

I'm giving A1 Lebanese Bakery 5 stars for their really awesome flatbread and baklava.

1. Flatbread:

I admit that I do quite like Anthony Bourdain and when he raved about A1, I made it a mission to visit this place. The flatbread at this place, oh my goodness, is the best I've ever had. I got the meat pizza which was flatbread served with ground meat. Served warm, the flatbread was slightly crispy on the outside, and soft and light in texture.

2. Baklava:

I believe I've possibly found the best baklava. As you know, baklava is made with a million layers of phyllo pastry that are so thin that you really can't see the individual layers anymore once they are brushed with rose syrup water in between layers. At A1, a bite into the baklava, you can actually see the individual paper-thin layers of phyllo dough. This means that at each bite I could also feel the pastry itself instead of just chewing and biting into layers of phyllo that are just stuck together like how it is at other places.

My husband had the falafel which he seemed to really enjoy. I was more interested in the bright purple radish pickle that came with the falafel. By the way, the bright purple radish purple was good.

We really like how local this place feels. When even older Middle Eastern men come here to hang out, you know that A1 is good.

A1 is the Northern suburbs hangover cure spot from hell. It's easy: purchase on sausage pizza (carnivore) or cheese pie (herbivore); add chilli to taste; grab a cool beverage from the chiller or get them to whip you up a take-away coffee; race home as quickly as possible; cut pizza/pie into segments (preferably folded in half); eat while standing in front of miscellaneous movie/sports/crap on television. If that doesn't cure your woes, then you are probably going to die.

A1's shelves are absolutely rammed to the rafters with amazing pickles/dried and Middle Eastern delights. The one stinker about the place is that they don't stock the bread they use for the pizza bases. That stuff would be a gold mine if they flicked em off - it's just so hard to find decent pizza-base-style bread. They do stock their own Pita bread though, and it does kinda rule. Don't worry if they're a bit surly... they deal with hung-over meat-heads all weekend.

Came here for two years back when I was eight. Now I'm eighteen and I'm coming back here, I still fucking love it! The cheese pie has always been my favourite, it's awesome!

Been coming here since i was a 5 yr old with my parents!
Still come here for the cheese pies as an adult haha

I think that says it all :)
Best thing to happen to Brunswick!