Breadtop

Yummy, I was tempted every time I walked down Bourke Street with its self-​serve glass cupboards filled with quite a few interesting and different items. They have a large variety of both sweet and savory buns, pasties, muffins, donuts and cakes. This place is perfect for a cheap, quick breakfast, lunch or snack. In this Asian bakery, you pick out what you want from the glass cupboards, place it on a tray then pay at the counter.

I’ve gotta say I do enjoy the lamingtons from here.
Whilst not you’re typical vanilla sponge cake inside (they use chocolate sponge instead), the lightness of the cake combined with jam and cream [assuming it’s fresh as the lamingtons are kept in the fridge] makes me a likea da lamington! :)
Also good place to grab a few pastries for lunch on the go.

I’m normally very conscious of eating healthily, but I make the exception for a bit of Breadtop.
It’s a bakery but it’s very typically Chinese version of what bakeries tend to be like here. There’s lots of buns, cakes, bread, pastries and croissants on offer, but the name of the game is sugar and soft, light and fluffy.
The Breadtop experience is the opposite of the artisan bakery movement that is gaining ever increasing vitality in Melbourne. That’s not to say that it is bad. It’s absolutely delicious and certainly has its place in the great bake-​off competition in this town, but it’s all style over substance.
All the ingredients taste overly refined — very refined flours and sugars, overly sweet toppings, plastic-​y cheese bits. And somehow it all comes together beautifully and ends up as tasty, naughty doughy treats.
The set up is fun too. Grab a tray and some plastic tongs, whip open the cabinets you like the look of, and select your own pastries and buns. Take your selection to the counter, pay and go. Easy.