Thresherman’s Bakehouse

Good fast service. Nice simple breakfast. Prices are very reasonable and the coffee was pretty good. Will definitely come back.

Had a blueberry cheesecake. It was hard and stale, the jelly topping was a bit stiff. And can’t I just get a flat white in a mug rather than a tall milkshake glass. They’ve gone for the rustic, warehouse look but it’s just scrappy and dirty.

I was looking for a place for a slightly business-​y meeting/​coffee after work hours (a bar or restaurant wasn’t right), and I had trouble finding a café in Carlton that wasn’t closed. Thresherman’s Bakehouse is open until 10:30pm. It was very quiet; the indoor area feel like a bit of a barn (it’s a big space, I imagine it’s very vibrant during the day), but the outdoor area was a nice place to sit and enjoy a lovely evening. Long tables make it clear that they get busy during the day.
I ordered a latte (which was very, very full, but I managed not to spill any on my way to the table) and a chocolate éclair, which was fine.
There wasn’t anything wrong with the place — the staff were fine, etc — but I’m not sure I would think of it again until I needed a quiet, casual café on Lygon Street after 5pm. That’s not a problem though (their bread and butter is Melb Uni students, and I’m not one), and I was quite glad it was there.
I’d give it three and a half stars if there was an option to.

Are you really going to charge me 50 cents for a drop of honey in my terrible latte? The food is basically shit in a tray and the baked stuff is mostly stale, having been sitting there for way too long. Horrible place. Terrible service.

Love the Vibe, very hipster. A lot of uni students around as it is near Melb uni. The food is cheap and great quality. The Coffee on the other hand was ‘Meh’. A great hangout for a late lunch or and casual brunch with mates.

When I was a (much) poor (er) uni student, I used to think Thresh was ace in that you could buy so much food for so little money. Until I remembered I had taste buds who eventually could not forgive me no longer. That and they’ve been known to pay some of their staff $ 6 an hour.

I really wish people hadn’t talked Threshermans up to me. I went in with such high expectations of amazing meals for rock-​bottom prices while the reality is somewhere inbetween.
Specialising in lunch and dinner trade there’s a host of options including hot meals where you can mix-​and-​match three different varieties for $ 12. I had a chicken wrap that was pretty ordinary, it was cheap but it just didn’t have enough sauce and was incredibly dry.
The coffee here is good and the service is friendly, plus the inside has plenty of seating but the food could be a lot better.

Threshermans Bakehouse is one step up from school dinners and probably almost just as cheap. To just describe it as that would be really cruel and not do it justice, however. Let me explain.
Being a uni student, the food you have on offer within the union buidling for the most part is appalling. That leaves you with very few options to choose from in the nearby area that serve a student’s budget. Sinbads is excellent on Swanston Street, as is Don Tojo on Cardigan Street. Besides those, you’d then be looking at Threshermans.
They allow you to mix and match a number of items including pastas, salads, pies and more, in a cafeteria style. The food is hit and miss as other reviewers have pointed to. But the environment and atmosphere is always pretty vibrant. After a couple of visits you’ll know what you like and don’t and from then on you can’t go wrong.
In short, I’d go here for a quick and cheap lunch but wouldn’t expect to get much more than that.

I always walk by this place and have a gander inside. This place offers a cozy communal style eatery. To one side there is a selection of hot food on display in the likes of a food court. Then there are your salads, focaccias and pies. On the other side is a bakery style area with large homely looking sweet treats.
I’ve never actually bought anything from here though, I walk inside and feel so overwhelmed by the variety that I cant make my mind and end up leaving empty handed (although this is probably more to do with me than threshermans).
I feel as though everything looks nice and inviting, but I wouldn’t be surprised if the food is no good. Perhaps it’s because of its food court style layout that puts me off?
What I love about the place is its honest style. Its like your in a barn, that’s clean and has nice giant wooden tables, there’s also quite a few seats available outside. This is a huge brick building with a giant sign on top, it would be pretty hard to walk by and not wonder what was inside.

20. Thresherman’s Bakehouse
221 Faraday Street
Carlton VIC 3053
(03) 9349 2319
If you’ve ever walked around Faraday Street at lunchtime you’ll see many people, especially students, tucking into a huge squared slice of pizza. This is a sure sign that they’ve been to Threshermans to take advantage of their big portions at low prices.
They offer everything from pies and quiches to salad and soup to lasagne and chicken. Everything else is also baked on site. You can buy various breads, cakes and sweets to eat in or take home, which you’ll see many of the nearby residents do on a regular basis.
It’s a bit hit and miss, with the odds leaning more towards the miss. Threshermans is a Uni student’s delight not a foodie paradise. So as long as you know not to expect too much, and understand the audience they’re catering for, then you won’t be as bitterly disappointed.
It has a spacious interior that resembles a barn with plenty of communal and non-​communal seating.

Whoa doggy. This joint is a freakin’ warehouse of delicious lunchable treats. You gotta go there with a pretty good idea of where you’re headed food-​wise as you could easily get lost in the tractor beams of the bright lights of the bay maries and coolers inside.
The best thing about Threshermans is that you can customise to a certain degree. Want a bowl of pasta salad with your meatballs? Sure, they can arrange it. Want three kinds of salad with that quiche? No problem, they’ll do it.
The atmosphere is a winner here also. Lunchtimes are packed with students, shoppers and general Carltonites but wait times are usually pretty good. There are large tables to share, inside and out, so seating is pretty problem free also. The best thing here though is the prices. They’re not your bargain-​basement prices that a lot of the nearby restaurants adhere to in order to suck the students in for shitty cheap lunches, but the quality is always great, the vegetables always fresh and you can pretty much guarantee as much as you can eat for around ten bucks.
Tip: take your visiting parents here for lunch so they can see how grown-​up and sensible you are now you’re a big student.