The Golden Crumbs is a dessert bakery and café on Riccarton Road in Christchurch, where the menu leans happily into everything sweet. The cabinet is stocked with baked treats — donuts, scrolls, cookies, Swiss rolls, eclairs, danishes, tarts and croissants filled with custard — alongside cakes and slices such as French opera cake, creamy cheesecake cups and tiramisu-flavoured cups.
Its calling card is the tower pancake: a tall stack finished with berries, sauces and soft cream in combinations like Nutella chocolate, Biscoff and pistachio. The Signature Cheesecake Bowl, served with sauce and soft cream, is the other house speciality.
The drinks list is just as considered, running from flat whites and long blacks to iced lattes, five matcha specials and Kiwi classics like the Milo Lava Float. Pickup and delivery are available daily from 9:00 am to 10:00 pm, with orders able to be placed in advance through Order Meal.
On Riccarton Road in Christchurch, The Golden Crumbs has built its name around a simple, happy idea: dessert first. This is a bakery and dessert café where the cabinet does the talking — trays of donuts, scrolls and danishes, Swiss rolls and eclairs, slices and cakes — backed up by a drinks list that stretches from flat whites to matcha specials and Milo floats. It's the kind of place that works for after-school treats, a weekend pancake stack or a box of slices taken along to someone's place.
Everything on the menu is available for pickup and delivery, seven days a week from 9:00 am to 10:00 pm, so it suits a morning coffee run just as well as a late-night dessert drop at the door.
The desserts section is the heart of the menu. Alongside the donuts, scrolls and cookies you'll find Swiss rolls, eclairs, danishes, tarts and croissants filled with custard, plus a pudding for anyone after something more traditional. If choosing is the hard part, the Deluxe Slice — a box of six — takes the guesswork out and sends you home with a mixed selection.
The cakes and slices range covers both patisserie classics and café favourites: a French opera cake, cake slices, creamy cheesecake cups, tiramisu-flavoured cups, muffins and cupcakes. It's a lineup that works for an individual treat as easily as something to share around an office or family table.
The dish The Golden Crumbs is best known for is its tower pancakes — tall stacks finished with sauces, fruit and soft cream. There are four ways to have them: berries with berry sauce and vanilla soft cream; Nutella chocolate with banana, berries and chocolate sauce; Biscoff with berries and Biscoff sauce; and pistachio, with pistachio sauce, berries and a matching pistachio soft cream.
If you'd rather spoon than stack, the Signature Cheesecake Bowl comes with sauce and soft cream — and it's named right on the menu as the house speciality.
The drinks list goes well beyond the usual. The coffee range covers flat white, latte, cappuccino, long black, americano, double espresso and hot chocolate, with iced versions of the latte, vanilla latte, mocha latte and matcha latte for warmer days.
Matcha gets a whole section to itself: strawberry matcha, mix berry matcha, matcha Biscoff latte, matcha chocolate float and Nutella matcha. And for a properly Kiwi treat, the Milo Lava Float and the Milo Tiramisu Dessert Drink — which comes with a tiramisu slice — sit alongside a Biscoff milkshake float, KitKat mocha frappe and Oreo frappe.
Because pickup and delivery both run from 9:00 am to 10:00 pm, The Golden Crumbs slots neatly into the day — early coffees, afternoon pickups, or dessert ordered ahead for after dinner. Orders can be made in advance through Order Meal, so you can schedule a pickup at a time that suits.
For a simple morning tea, the coffee combos pair a large coffee with scones, a cookie, any scroll or any donut. It's also worth checking the deals before you order — the listing has run specials such as 20% off donuts, croissants and scrolls, which makes the temptation that much easier to give in to.