Aroma Dessert Studio CBD — known by its Chinese name, 老椰手作CBD店 — is the city-centre branch of Aroma Dessert, an Auckland dessert brand with four branches across the city: Albany, Mt Eden, the CBD and East Tāmaki. You'll find this studio up on Level 3 at 59-67 High Street, right in the heart of the CBD, serving the drinks and desserts the brand is known for.
The brand's website bills its menu as a dessert wonderland: pages of drinks alongside a toppings recommendation board (小料推荐榜) and an AROMA Recommended selection of the team's own picks. Everything is made to the same house standard, summed up in the line that sits above it all — always use fresh, quality ingredients.
Order at the counter, customise your drink with the recommended toppings, and take your treat to go or enjoy it on the spot. The branch can be reached on (027) 5299993; opening hours aren't published online, so a quick call before you visit is the easiest way to confirm times.
Tucked upstairs on High Street in the middle of Auckland's CBD, Aroma Dessert Studio CBD — you'll also see it written by its Chinese name, 老椰手作CBD店 — is the city-centre outpost of Aroma Dessert, an Auckland dessert brand that has grown to four branches across the city. Step off the street at 59-67 High Street, head up to Level 3, and you arrive at the brand's self-described dessert wonderland: a studio devoted to sweet drinks and desserts, made to order around one guiding promise — always use fresh, quality ingredients.
For anyone who already knows Aroma Dessert from its other corners of Auckland, the CBD studio will feel instantly familiar. The menus, the toppings recommendations and the standards are shared across the whole family of branches, so a favourite picked up in Mt Eden or Albany is waiting for you on High Street too.
High Street sits at the heart of Auckland's central shopping and laneway quarter, which makes the studio a natural pause point between errands, lectures or meetings. The idea is simple: step in from the street, head upstairs, order at the counter, and let the menu do the rest. Drinks and desserts are prepared fresh, and the setup is built for customising — choose your base, then add from the toppings the team recommends most.
The heart of the menu is its drinks lineup, laid out across the brand's menu pages, alongside a dedicated toppings recommendation board — the 小料推荐榜, literally a ranking of recommended toppings — pointing you toward the add-ins the team rates most highly. If you have never ordered here before, that board is the fastest way in: pick a drink from the menu, add a recommended topping or two, and you have built exactly the kind of custom combination the studio is set up for.
The website also curates an AROMA Recommended selection — the picks the brand itself chooses to highlight, drawn from the same menus. It is a small touch, but a useful one: it saves you from staring at a full menu board when you are short on time, or when you simply want the version the regulars order.
One promise sits above everything else on the Aroma Dessert site: always use fresh quality ingredients. For a studio whose entire offering is drinks and desserts — where the ingredients essentially are the experience — that is more than a slogan. It is the standard the brand asks every branch to work to, and this High Street studio is no exception.
Aroma Dessert has grown from a single shop into a small family of branches: Albany on Oracle Drive, Mt Eden on Dominion Road, this studio on High Street, and East Tāmaki on Bishop Lenihan Place. The brand is still growing, too — franchising information sits prominently on its website for anyone curious about running a branch of their own.
For visitors, that consistency is the practical payoff. Whatever brings you to the CBD, the drink or dessert you loved at one Aroma Dessert branch is the one you will find at another, made to the same standards and from the same menus.
The studio is at Level 3, 59-67 High Street, in the Auckland CBD, and can be reached directly on (027) 5299993. Opening hours are not published on the website, so if you are planning a visit outside the middle of the day, a quick call ahead is the surest way to confirm the studio is open.
A few parting pointers: browse the drinks menus and the toppings recommendation board on the Aroma Dessert website before you arrive so you can order with confidence; start with the AROMA Recommended picks if it is your first visit; and remember the studio is up on Level 3, so look for the entrance at 59-67 High Street and head upstairs. And if you find yourself in Albany, Mt Eden or East Tāmaki instead, there is an Aroma Dessert there too.