Lawley’s Bakery Cafe

One of several Bakery Café’s in the metro area, this is the one in Mt Lawley that is open very early (around 6:30−7am) and benefits greatly from serving the early local traffic. It’s not difficult to find a seat at this time, but you will find yourself inside the reasonably mid-​size venue for breakfast unless you beat the joggers and dog-​walkers who will snap up an outside café table.
Great breakfast fare, I usually go for the vegetarian mix plate, with healthy helpings of avocado, eggs made to order, beans and tomato, with crispy toast from the wide range they have on offer. While I don’t often see people try the deserts (tucked into a corner and a fairly big if limited range spread of pastries and creamy cakes), it’s the chunky-​filled sandwiches and rolls that get the biggest orders.
I suggest you onsider picking up some of the pre-​packaged breadrolls and do try the highly recommended bagels on offer. Coffee is good and they have no problems if you pick through their daily newspaper while waiting for your brew to boil for a take-​away cup.

Avocado smash and other breakfasts are quite nice, but milkshakes taste like skim milk mixed with cream, with no flavour at all. Service is friendly but at times they have a tendency to forget orders or serve up the wrong food. All in all I would say that as a bakery it’s very good but as a breakfast place it’s just average.

Called in here with my son to pick up a coffee and cakes for afternoon tea. As with the other Lawleys in Wembley, there is a wide range of breads and pastries here, and all the breads I’ve tried over the years have been good.
On this occasion though, we made a beeline for the cake counter. Along with a few of the old-​fashioned types of cakes — apple turnovers, long cream doughnuts and vanilla slices — there were also miniature lemon, fruit and frangipane tarts, pecan tarts, various profiteroles and eclairs, and chocolate tarts.
My son settled on one of his faves — choc caramel slice — while I went for a mini frangipane pecan tart and coffee profiterole. The tart was yummy as was the profiterole, although the profiteroles we recently tried from La Pagnotta in Malaga were marginally better. AB said his slice was one of the better ones he’s tried, although these days he does prefer the salted caramel choc slices that just seem to add a touch of something special to this old favourite.
This café bakery is popular with the lunch time crowd and has a range of sandwiches and savoury slices and quiches available. If you’re looking for ambience head elsewhere in Mt Lawley or Highgate, but for fairly basic but good food (or a good loaf of bread), it does the job just fine.

Lemon tart has a very hard base you almost have to use a pickaxe to break through it. The price for a small tart was around $ 30 so you would expect something better.

Everything no seasoning
Omelette like fried egg burger… coffee taste like mc café
Not worth to eat …
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we come on the Good Friday because it is the only café nearly is opened. We hope to have a good breakfast on this Good Friday. However, this is quite disappointed.
We’d to find the table ourselves coz no one serve us a table. The table was cleaned after 5mins we had a seat.
We ordered the healthy omelette and the whole day breakfast, a mocha and a hot choc.
The omelet is disappointing with no seasoning at all, I’d keep adding salt on it and still tasteless. The mushroom inside is not fresh and tasteless… The eggs yolk and egg white is not mixed well and it seems like a fried egg not a omelet…
The whole day breakfast is fine but the drink is not.
The mocha is only coffee without any choco flavour.
So this is the first and the last time we come here.
Btw, the servers are friendly.

You have to keep in mind this is a bakery. But it’s a deliciously amazing bakery that serves breakfast into the late afternoon. It also sells the most amazing jam donuts (just $ 2.50!) which they happily cut in half and plated for my friend and I. The coffee is fine, but that’s not why you’re here is it? Bagels are no NYC standard but they do the trick. The staff is super friendly and take they’re time to get your order right even when there is a big line waiting to order.

On the way home from Sculptures By The Sea (4:30pm on Sunday) my friend and I wanted to stop by Mount Lawley to grab a coffee, and I couldn’t have been happier that we decided to visit Lawleys. Normally I only stop by here for the bread, but this time I couldn’t help myself, especially after I saw there was a $ 5.95 coffee and cake special.
Because we were so enticed by the special we decided to ask the girl behind the counter what the cakes included were. She wasn’t sure, apologised and straight away went to grab another girl who showed the girl and told us what the cakes where. The girls were lovely and this friendly level of service continued throughout our entire experience. We had a selection of any coffee, along with either a chocolate cake or mocha cake. We both ordered the $ 5.95 coffee and cakes special which was perfect, especially as they were happy to make our coffees just as we liked it, including a long black with a side of milk at no extra charge. We each grabbed a different cake with the intention of sharing.
When the lady behind the register brought out our coffee and cakes (we decided to sit outside due to the lovely weather) she asked if we’d like another plate and knife so we could share our cakes, as she had heard us mention that was our plan. The coffees were delicious, and presented nicely with a rich crema and a tasty (what I remember being a) coconut shortbread biscuit on the side. The cakes were delicious; moist cakes with sweet flavoured mousse layers and the chocolate cake had a rich icing that was to die for. The servings were a good size for the rich cakes, not too big and not too small.
As we came so late in the day we noticed by the end they started closing the store, but at no point were we rushed, moved or asked to leave. The service was lovely the whole time, and the staff very friendly. The food was delicious and the pricing was even better. I simply couldn’t fault my afternoon pit-​stop. I even ended up leaving with a Margarita flatbread and muffin, both of which were delicious evening treats.

I’m a Canadian, so doughnuts are my thing. Thank goodness for Lawley’s doughnut collection because otherwise I would be hard pressed to find somewhere to soothe my Tim Hortons withdrawal.
After getting the doughnut tour (glazed, jam filled, and cronut) I decided it was only fair to have all three. Sweet, fresh, chewy and lacking any of the super fake taste that many Australian doughnuts have has made these a worthy replacement in a pinch bout of homesickness.
In previous visits we’ve tried the bread (delicious), Cesar salad (tasty but fairly soggy), and coffee (good).
While the young guy that served us was super chipper and helpful, I must say I was put off by the original young girl at the cash that was so wrapped up in her stock take count that I didn’t even get a glance. But, after my sugar coma has set in I can forgive her ignorance.

Out of the office for the first time in a long time and I didn’t have too much time up my sleeve so I popped into Lawley’s for a quick bite.
No the coffee was not worth four stars, scraping to get to three.
The pepper and steak pie was yum. Enough pepper for a kick of spice but not enough to make your eyes water!
What I gave this place four stars for was the mini chocolate éclair, wow. It was fantastic. Mini that’s right, when you want something sweet but don’t want to have to spend hours in the gym working it off.
If I am in the area again I would try some other cakes in the range.

I’m okay with Lawley’s. I find their breads to be quite expensive when they mold just as fast as a bread from IGA’s. In the end, I guess bread shelf-​life stays the same regardless of how many oats they throw in. It seems like every time I want a Jewish Rye or Pumpernickel, they have sold-​out which leads to much Reuben frustration. The chocolate croissant does make up for some of the loss!
While sipping on a delicious Vanilla Chai during a business meeting, I realized how incredibly «loud» it was inside of Lawley’s. With the hubbub of the café and the unnecessary overhead music, I couldn’t help but think this isn’t the «right» place for a business meeting. This was a Monday at 10 a.m. and our meeting was intended for their neighbors…
Unfortunately, Caffissimo is shut on Mondays (???), so Lawley’s got the business. That’s how it works, Folks.

I can’t believe I’m going to say this out loud, but I think it needs to be said.
Everyone knows I’m kinda crazy about America. Probably because I am American and I’m stupidly partial to everything USA. Whatever, I’m biased. So here it is. The earthshaking sentence that I’m going to put on Unilocal.
Australia does Eggs Benedict so much better than America does.
Oh Jesus, that felt good to get off my chest. I feel slightly like a traitor, but unfortunately, it is true. The Eggs Benedict is OZ is freaking delicious. Lawley’s is my favorite spot to go and I’m just head over heels for their food. Their hollandiase sauce is probably the best I’ve ever had anywhere and it keeps me coming back more and more.
Their prices are on the rise, but for a tasty dish of Benedict, I don’t care.

Ok, these guys DO sell some yummy stuff but seriously… it’s not that hard to give good customer service. We pay your wages after all!
I stopped in to buy some petit fours and was totally ignored by a stern and huffy staff member for several minutes as she tried to appear busy.
No eye contact, no service. Not acceptable in a lunch bar/​bakery.
After a good 5 minutes or so she was joined behind the service bench by another staff member who did acknowledge and eventually serve me.
I have to admit the petit fours were delicious however!

Good for three things:
Amazing bread. I am particularly in love with the beetroot sourdough.
On-​the-​run lunch — simple salads, wraps and rolls.
They also do some delightful little Petit-​Fours — a lifesaver when entertaining guests and disaster strikes in the kitchen.
*Not* good if you want a gourmet breakfast. Its nothing better than you could cook at home, but it is good bang for your buck. Choose Lawley’s if you’re short on cash and hell breaks loose in the kitchen again.

Sourdough bread has to be the best kind of bread, so when I walked into here and found they had sourdough bread mixed with other things such as figs and rye, oh wow. I bought the fig one and it was honestly to die for!
They have a great range other sweet baked goods too, most of which taste like a little slice of heaven.

Lawley’s Bakery Café has the name but not the goods. It simply doesn’t deliver. I went there for breakfast the other day and I was feeling a bit tired and a touch drab. The fact the café seemed to be an outer expression of my inner feelings didn’t help the situation.
The décor around me seemed resolutely bland and needed a good dose of pizazz to brighten it up. The staff and café personified dull and boring and that’s not how I want to start my day, particularly not when I’m paying for it. I can have a dull and bland start to the day for a much cheaper price in my own house, thank you very much.
When the coffee arrived it was way too hot and burnt. I’m no coffee connoisseur but burnt coffee, I do recognise and I do not like.
They did have a good range of bread here and some cakes that looked quite nice but the service was pretty ordinary and I’m not rushing back. There are many other places I’d rather wake up to.

I’d like to personally thank Lawleys for their almond croissants. And their Fig & Fennel Sourdough. And their choc silk tarts. And their pecan petit fours. And their smoked salmon bagels. And everything else I’ve ever eaten here that’s sent me bouncing down Beaufort Street with a smile the size of the moon. Lawley’s bread range is the best in Perth, especially their rye. Despite opening shop in a number of other locations, the bakery still manages to achieve the kind of hearty, home-​made bread love you expect to find in a small French baguette store. Breakfasts here are tops ace and affordable, and the lunch range (interesting sandwiches, quiches, homemade pies, words don’t do this stuff any favours) is also divine. When I’m assigned savoury for picnic get-​togethers with friends, and I haven’t the time to make anything, I like to get an array of cut-​up lunch treats from here. They always go down a treat.