Degani Bakery Cafe

What do you do when you are a struggling corner sandwich bar? You transform into a bakery café gourmet delicatessen. The Degani franchise chain has been responsible for some gorgeous transformations and Highpoint is probably one if the best examples if this. Unfortunately this is not one of them. The coffee and pastry selection has improved and is up to scratch, but toasted sandwiches are not gourmet and selling chocolates does not make you a deli. Baked goods come from offsite and the baristas are reasonable but not outstanding. This effort pleases the locals but does not attract passing motor vehicle traffic. Foot traffic is limited as at the end of the day it is a local strip mall but nevertheless, unless you want to head towards High St Kew, Doncaster, Box Hill Central or where Laurent is at Whitehorse Rd Balwyn then this is about as good as you will get on Belmore Rd.