No 33, Park Street, Colombo 02
Open until 10:00 PM
BreadTalk has been doing well since its inception despite all the "its-expensive!" cries, but anything for a posh pastry, right?
BreadTalk down Park Street has now moved premises. They are still down Park Street, but at the complex behind the old BreadTalk. Bigger and better, the new BreadTalk will make you feel very urban with their chic interior and corporate patrons.
While way pricier than your average Perera and Sons, BreadTalk has been on par with its foreign branches in delivering good breads and pastries. Their range of savories does include the Lankan staples of rolls and maalu paans, but their international selection is what you should be going for if you really want to spend them bucks.
The new BreadTalk on Park Street has a slightly different take than its other local branches. In addition to serving baked or fried goods, they have also introduced salads, sandwiches, pizza and pasta on the menu! The whole idea of serving salads is amazing because now your annoyingly health conscious friend will shut up.
After paying for our Chicken Floss (Rs 200), Sugar Donut (Rs 70), and Iced Milo (Rs 240), we got to eating because the Devilled Fish Pizza (Rs 1310) and Chicken Club Sandwich (Rs 620) were going to take a while.
The Chicken Floss, as always, did not disappoint and was well up to their internationally recognized standard.
(Fun fact time - BreadTalk has sold over 100 million of these floss buns!)
This bun had a generous coating of their trademark floss (chicken, in this case) and was flavoured well, spicy enough to cut through their sweet egg cream filling which is what makes the bun so amazingly incomparable to the other basic buns.
BreadTalk's sugar donut is the closest you will come to a good, decent, soft donut that will make you feel a little okay about how Colombo still doesn't have Krispy Kreme.
Not sure if it was just an unforturnate batch or if the quality has dropped because this donut wasn't their usual soft sugar donut. It was too doughy and lumpy with a whole load of sugar and a lot of Sumanadisi bakery feels.
To be honest, I donut want to believe their quality has dropped because I need BreadTalk to fuel my donut requirements.
Compared to your average kade's Iced Milo, this is a few tens more pricey, but it's worth the Rs. 240. It was sweet, but not too sweet and was served chilled enough to forget the Colombo heat.
We finally got our pizza and portion of club sandwiches after a wait of approximately 15 minutes.
Firstly, kudos to BreadTalk for this intense localization of toppings. Devilled Fish Pizza did justice to the devils of the Lankan Devilled World.
Topped with a whole lot of cheese, these 8 slices were generously spread with tomato sauce, peppers, fresh tomatoes and spicy devilled fish, albeit a little more fish would have taken this pizza from a 9 out of 10 to a full on 10. What I liked best about this pizza (after the cheese) was the dough, which was thin and crispy and didn't leave you bloated after just three bites.
The Club Sandwich, sadly, was not upto mark. To begin with, the description said it would come with gherkins. As someone who loves gherkins in her sandwiches I was obviously disheartened to see cucumbers instead. No, gherkins do not equal cucumbers! That's like telling me Nutella is the same as any chocolate spread! It was also a little dry with no fillings around the corners and no one likes chickenless sandwich corners. For Rs 620, I would say BreadTalk could have done a lot better.
The accompanying french fries (Ahoy, potato lovers!) were fried well retaining all that potato goodness without overfrying or underfrying. So, yay! Also, the sauce, I noticed, was spicy which is a little plus to offset the minuses of the club sandwich.
Service at the new BreadTalk is very friendly. While I didn't receive the usual (and slightly unnerving) "Welcome to BreadTalk" that you would be welcomed with at their previous Park Street branch, the treatment was nice and warm.
Special mention about the cashier, Randika, who was nice enough to take back the Hot Milo without a fuss and pour a fresh glass of Iced Milo after I changed my mind. In fact, she asked me if I would like an Iced Milo instead of the Hot Milo when she saw me hesitating after the swift shift in decisions.
From the manager who asked us if all was well to the dude who brought the pizza and sandwiches to the table, everyone had a genuine smile plastered on their face which was really welcoming.
In terms of ambience, BreadTalk gives a very urban vibe, especially with the walking in work crowd from the offices in the adjoining complex. They have got ample seating, so you can bring your entire extended family if you're feeling rich.
They have got some quirky ornamenting going on with bottles and plants on tables. Instagrammers, take note.
Overall, you cannot expect BreadTalk to be as cheap as your favourite kadey because it's a Singaporean chain and international franchises are pricey. In terms of quality, it's good, but there definitely is room for improvement. I definitely would go back for their devilled fish pizza though!
Their service and ambience is undoubtedly what stood out when I visited and I definitely would go again if I am feeling less broke and want to be welcomed with smiles while munching my Chicken Floss.
Good gluten and great service, BreadTalk at Park Street is going to leave you feeling really urban and slightly broke.
BreadTalk excels in a lot of things like ambiance and presentation, however bite into that dolled up bun and you'll find that the buzz around BreadTalk is absolute gossip.
සිංහල බ්රෙඩ්ටෝක් කියන්නේ ලංකාවේ සාමාන්ය බේකරි රැල්ලට හැමවෙලේම අලුත් දෙයක් එකතු කරන්න බලන බේකරියක්. ඕනේ ම බේකරියක හැමදාම දකින්න ලැබෙන රෝල්, පැටිස්වලින් මිදිලා අලුත් විදියට කෑම හදන්න මේ කට්ටිය උපන් හපන්නු.
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No 33, Park Street, Colombo 02
Directions
Head down Park Street and pass Park Street Mews and Crown. BreadTalk is at the confusing roundabout to your right. Turn into the car park and head all the way down.
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A little misty jungle to have a hot high tea or a…
Great place to have a delicious Sri Lankan buffet…
The chicken floss has some kind of translucent gel-like spread in the middle, hence the 'wetness'! It's the only thing I like at BreadTalk, but the gooey wet thingy grossed me out!
I generally find that my opinion/experience is quite different to what has been published on how ever I must say that this instance I could not agree with the writer more. What a beautiful restaurant what terrible food… Its such a shame. Been there a couple of times but no more as the food is so bland or sweet that I feel like throwing up. How I wish they could get some recipes from Perera and Sons after all in a previous Yamu review they were described as the Perera & Sons of Singapore.
The fact that you're comparing it to Perera and Sons shows how little you have an international palette or knowledge of food taste outside of Sri Lanka. It's a Singaporean franchise not a Sri Lankan bakery. If you want that go to Perera and Sons or any other road side kadey that serves your usual buns and rolls suiting the local on the street. That's why Bread Talk is serving malu paans and other Sri Lankan fare like lumprais to suit people with your Sri Lankan taste to increase their market share and also maintaining the international standards. Bravo to them to change their menu to accommodate the local taste. And yet people are complaining. What a disgrace… We have Bread Talk in Hong Kong too and you get the same stuff minus your maalu paans etc. If you find it bland or sweet well listen up buddy that's the correct taste not over spiced which is what I assume you're expecting. I hope all franchises coming to Sri Lanka maintain the original taste and not sri lankanise everything…
The chocolate aleck was misleading indeed! Though the veggie puff pastry was okay it tasted bland like the rest. Is the chicken floss the best?
You guys are being too generous with the stars as of late.
Why on earth would you give 3 stars to BreadTalk??? You can buy maalu paan from any roadside place, and it is guaranteed to taste better than anything from BreadTalk.
The presence of professional, quality and clean, flyfree - presentable polite service with care, establishments are far and few in CMB. We all know that! And when you get into the bakery industry the gaps are very obvious.
I think we all know that and a majority of us are migrating out of that crap saivar service culture finally! We actually know when we buy a crappy bun that we are buying a crappy bun!
Breaktalk is a welcome option in that sense as a professional company that does its job correctly rather than flogging cheap fly covered no filing buns with unclean and slow service to boot in pretty much unhygienic surrounds.
Its expensive for a reason and yes its a different taste - adapting is highly rec for breadtalk to steal the obvious market they have awaiting - Im sure they are doing this gradually especially on the sweetness/spice side.
I would go to breadtalk out of principle over any of the rubbish age old establishments that have for decades ripped people off with no filling jack all buns and half size rolls and dodgy food hygiene practices (green cabin comes to mind). Fab is another contender that's just dropping the ball on service and product quality.
These chains know exactly what they can get away with but its only a matter of time till their luck runs out totally.
The place started off with a bang. The parmesan chicken bun, even the nacho cheese bun were really decent, bordering on awesome. I don't agree with Ranil. There are places like coffee stop, dolce Italia and even cafe on the 5th that can easily, EASILY outdo / outclass breadtalk. They can't go down on quality and expect the brand to do the heavy lifting. Price it higher if they want, just don't go cheap on the ingredients.
Avoid this location of Breadtalk like the plague unless you want to fight the security at the car park.
Visited this location yesterday and it was hard to find a parking spot and there was a security guy standing 2 feet from my car. No help at all from this guy. After I parked, I asked him if he was the security for breadtalk since I was surprised at his indifference to the customers. This guy had the nerve to tell me "if you came here to eat just eat and leave" and that he is not here to help anyone. Then he and his buddy were ready to fight. Could not believe it.
At the Nugegoda outlet a TUNA Sandwich cost a whopping 310 bucks without tax. It was pretty ordinary. Not worth 300+ bucks.
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Prabhashana Hasthidhara
its closed for christ's sake!