More taste tests - Lune Croissants

Thursday, 2 January 2025

I am not super keen on croissants in general but since I've become aware of the famous Melbourne Lune store and the Lune founder who seems like a really interesting person I wanted to see if the very very highly rated croissants were noticebly better than a normal australian croissant, and if they were in fact sooo good that I'd change my mind about croissants in general.

My first obstacle to this investigaton was that I couldn't be bothered queuing outside the Lune store. Luckily for me though, I struck an unrelated deal with Zali that included her queuing for me as one of the conditions - so the experiment finally was able to occur.  After a 25 minute wait Zali returned with 2 samples - the Lune and one from the cafe underneath the building - and prepared a blind taste test for us.

Sure enough the Lune croissant (on the left) was easy to identify due to its superiority - it had much lighter flakier pastry than the competitor on the right.  I'd definitely prefer it if I had to eat a croissant but I'd definitely prefer a vanilla slice, or even vegemite toast though!

Zali also brought back a few other treats from Lune which had amazing citrussy filling and were really really good - so I'd still recommend Lune to any fellow croissant non-believers.