Gâteaux
Black Forest, Bar One, rich chocolate and vanilla — the cakes from our dessert catalogue.
Proudly South African · Est. 1956
Your just desserts.
An award-winning family bakery in Phoenix, Durban — seventy years of bread, celebration cakes and high-volume hospitality supply.
The legacy continues
From night-shift scones to KwaZulu-Natal’s trusted bakery.
What began in the early 1950s, when Mr Sirpal Gobind baked scones after night shifts and sold them on the walk home, is now a commercial bakery trusted by hotels, hospitals, stadiums and municipal kitchens.
Today the third generation — founder and head baker Nikesh Dhanlal and co-owner Reena Dhanlal — still run Top Hat Bakery & Take-Away CC from Phoenix Industrial Park, 365 days a year.
70+
Years baking
Level 1
BBBEE
Gold
Aurora Taste
Product range
From the 2020 dessert catalogue — and the bakery floor.
Tartlets & mini cakes
High-tea colour: fruit tartlets, cream tarts and bite-size petits fours.
Specialty cakes
Carrot cake with cream cheese frosting and red velvet sponge, baked fresh.
Deluxe cakes
Caramel deluxe, lemon, and baked cheesecake for the top of the dessert table.
Breads & rolls
White, brown, rye, sourdough, gluten-free, cocktail rolls, baguettes and burger buns.
High tea & savouries
Curated high-tea menus, mini pies, sausage rolls, samoosas and mini bunny chows.
The family
Third generation at the helm.
Nikesh Dhanlal
Founder & co-owner · Head baker
Reena Dhanlal
Co-owner · 51% · Manager
Key clients
Trusted by hotels, hospitals and stadiums.
- Hilton Garden Inn Umhlanga Arch
- Radisson Blu Hotel, Durban Umhlanga
- Coastlands Group of Hotels
- Royal Majestic Hotels
- Busamed Private Hospital
- Greyville Racecourse
- Moses Mabhida Stadium
- uShaka Marine World
Top-tier moments
Cakes for KwaZulu-Natal’s big nights.
MK Party 1st birthday. Sibaya Entertainment Kingdom 18th. Moses Mabhida concerts. Tourism Indaba. And 3,600 loaves a day for the Eastern Cape School Feeding Scheme.
Online shop
Coming soon.
Card and Instant EFT checkout via Payfast is being wired. Until then, hotels and events still order the old way — call Nick, tell us what you need, when you need it, and how you need it done.