Melissa Cakes Cafe Bar

Best Known For

Spinach and feta spanakopita.

Just out of reach of the big smoke, peacefully parked beside Ruffey Creek on Parker Street, is Templestowe’s Melissa Cakes Café Bar. A large garden pot encircled by ferns sits beside a columned entrance, where a theme of warm coloured hexagons contrasted with black tones presents itself, continuing indoors with an overhead cut-out containing more honeycomb shapes. Colourful cakes, in all shapes and sizes, glow from a steel-framed display running the length of this Greek influenced café. Not to be outdone, is a complete all-day menu with offerings like tasty traditional moussaka, well paired with an option from a strictly Australian and New Zealand wine list, or just as tempting, crispy skin Atlantic salmon, with creamy mash, seasonal greens and a saffron and chardonnay reduction.