Halloween Bakery Near Me in Tiong Bahru: Tiong Bahru Bakery's October Croissants

Tiong Bahru Bakery's flagship at 56 Eng Hoon Street, #01-70, is not running a Halloween menu this October: there are no pumpkin pastries or spooky cakes on its current menu. What it does have is a new croissant lineup, including a Maple Pecan Pear Croissant at S$7.50, and its signature kouign amann at S$6.20, served from 7.30am on weekdays. If you searched halloween bakery near me in Tiong Bahru, here is how to treat this bakery as the buttery first stop of an October walk, and where to go if you need ghosts.

Tiong Bahru Bakery first opened its doors in 2012 at this Eng Hoon Street address, launched with French baker Gontran Cherrier, whose first bakery outside France it was. It is now part of the Spa Esprit Group and has grown into a chain of around eighteen outlets across Singapore, but the Tiong Bahru shop is still the flagship. Its logo even takes cues from the 1930s architecture of the estate around it, the white curved blocks you see as soon as you turn into Eng Hoon Street.

The flagship closed for a major overhaul and reopened on 26 September 2025 with interiors by the design firm H Creates, a fit-out the group says will be the model for future branches. The new layout seats about 60 people and changes how you order: you now pick out your pastries yourself before paying at the counter, rather than pointing through glass. That makes the morning rush move faster, and it lets you inspect the lamination on each croissant before you commit.

The newest lineup is the reason to come this month. The Maple Pecan Pear Croissant is filled with juicy pear, caramelised pecans, mascarpone and a touch of maple, S$7.50, and it is the most autumnal thing on the counter. Alongside it sit a Mocamisu Croissant at S$8.50 and a savoury Four Cheese Corn Bacon Croissant at S$8. The in-store offer runs like this: pick any three of the new croissants and the bakery adds a free kouign amann.

The kouign amann is the pastry Tiong Bahru Bakery is known for, a caramelised Breton cake of laminated dough with a crackling sugar crust, S$6.20 plain, S$7.50 in chocolate or S$6.80 with apple. A classic croissant is S$4.80, a pain au chocolat S$5.20 and an almond croissant S$6.80. Bread-lovers can take home a sourdough country loaf for S$11.50 or a baguette for S$4.50. All menu prices are listed before GST, and dine-in bills carry a 10 percent service charge on top.

Our honest take: skip the Basque cheesecake at S$8.50 a slice if you only have room for one thing, because the laminated pastries are what this kitchen does best and the slice is sweeter than it is interesting. Also do not come expecting the kouign amann soft-serve that made headlines when the flagship reopened; it is not on the October 2026 menu here. Two kouign amann and a flat white is the order that makes the trip worth it. If you are buying for a group, the three-croissant deal is the better maths: three new croissants cost between S$22.50 and S$24.50 together, and the free kouign amann that comes with them is worth S$6.20 on its own, so a household of four eats for the price of three.

For a real Halloween box, the nearest strong option is Plain Vanilla's shophouse at 167 Neil Road, #01-01, about a fifteen-minute walk or one MRT stop away near Outram Park. From 7 October to 3 November 2026 it sells a Halloween Mixed Bakes Box for S$38 and a box of six Halloween-decorated cupcakes for S$39, both ordered online for collection. Pair the two: croissants in Tiong Bahru in the morning, then collect a spooky box on Neil Road in the afternoon.

The flagship opens at 7.30am Monday to Friday and at 8am on Saturday and Sunday, closing at 8pm every day. Weekend mornings are when the estate's brunch crowd arrives, so if you want a table, come on a weekday before 9am. The bakery's own app is the queue-skipping tool: you can pre-order and collect, and the app warns that during peak hours you should allow a little extra time for preparation. Delivery is handled through Oddle Eats.

If the room is full, two things help. First, the TBB Crumb and Go kiosk around the corner at 55 Tiong Bahru Road, #01-57, opens from 11am to 5pm daily for grab-and-go items. Second, the estate is walkable enough that you can take a paper bag of pastries to the benches outside and eat while you look at the architecture.

Tiong Bahru's pre-war flats were built in the late Art Deco style, with rounded corners, ribbon windows and spiral back staircases, and twenty blocks of them are gazetted for conservation by the Urban Redevelopment Authority. Start at the bakery, walk the curving blocks along Eng Hoon Street and Moh Guan Terrace, and look for the Streamline Moderne details on the corner units, many of which now hold cafes and small shops.

From the bakery it is about four minutes on foot to Tiong Bahru Market at 30 Seng Poh Road, which opened in 1951 as Seng Poh Road Market and still has a busy hawker centre upstairs above the wet market. A savoury hawker breakfast there balances a sweet start at the bakery. The estate also holds the old Tiong Bahru air raid shelter, one of the few pre-war civilian shelters in Singapore.

Tiong Bahru Bakery, 56 Eng Hoon Street, #01-70, Singapore 160056. Open Monday to Friday 7.30am to 8pm, Saturday and Sunday 8am to 8pm. Nearest MRT stations are Havelock on the Thomson-East Coast Line, roughly an eight-minute walk, and Outram Park, roughly eleven minutes; Tiong Bahru MRT is farther. Kouign amann S$6.20, croissant S$4.80, Maple Pecan Pear Croissant S$7.50, all before GST and service charge. No Halloween menu this year.