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Greek cake shops (zaharoplastia) in Melbourne
Updated 20 October 2026
A zaharoplastio (ζαχαροπλαστείο) is a Greek cake and sweet shop. It is where you buy a tray of pastries when visiting family, the koulourakia for Easter and the cake for a name day or christening.
These are the Greek cake shops and bakeries in our directory. Several have been baking in Melbourne for decades.
Oakleigh
Nikos Cakes
Greek café and cake shop on Portman Street since 1987, known for celebration cakes, Greek coffee and more than 90 kinds of sweets, including loukoumades and galaktoboureko. A second shop is in Fairfield.
Vanilla Lounge
Family-owned Greek and Mediterranean café, restaurant and patisserie in Eaton Mall since 2008, baking more than 100 traditional Greek biscuits and pastries plus celebration cakes. Also does functions and catering.
Sweet Filosophy
Greece-inspired continental patisserie and bakery in Oakleigh: savoury, sweet and "all things Greek".
Melissa Oakleigh
Greek café in Oakleigh, which describes itself as an iconic Greek café in Melbourne since 1969. Offers Greek treats and cakes, functions and catering.
Inner north and Richmond
Hellas Cakes
Greek cake shop and café around the corner from Richmond Station, established in 1962. It bakes baklava, galaktoboureko, kourambiethes and tsourekia, and supplies wholesalers.
Bougatsaki
Bougatsa specialist making the Thessaloniki-style filo and semolina-custard pastry by hand each morning. Its flagship store is on Sydney Road, and it also does wholesale, catering and a bougatsa dessert bar.
Tasos
Family-owned café and cake shop on High Street, serving traditional Greek food with a modern twist and cakes for special occasions.
Melissa Cakes
Greek coffee and cake business founded by Nick and Soula Katsakis, who opened their first Melissa ("honeybee") shop in Collingwood in 1969. Today it supplies authentic Greek cakes, pastries and biscuits wholesale and through franchised cafés.
Good to know
- Baklava (μπακλαβάς): layers of filo with nuts and syrup.
- Galaktoboureko (γαλακτομπούρεκο): semolina custard baked in filo and soaked in syrup.
- Loukoumades (λουκουμάδες): small fried dough balls with honey syrup, often topped with cinnamon or nuts.
- Bougatsa (μπουγάτσα): a Thessaloniki breakfast pastry of filo with semolina custard (or a savoury filling), dusted with icing sugar and cinnamon.
- Kourambiethes (κουραμπιέδες) and melomakarona (μελομακάρονα) are Christmas biscuits. Koulourakia (κουλουράκια) and tsoureki (τσουρέκι) are made for Easter.
- Order celebration cakes and big trays early around Easter, Christmas and name days.
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