The Old Paper Shop Deli

You come here for the cakes and the huge hearty breakfasts the coffee and the friendly staff. I’ve been coming here for almost 2 decades and I have never written a review. I always thought that everyone would just walk past and look at the cakes and dive on in which is exactly what I do. On having said that the cakes are absolutely better to taste than they look and the breakfast will fill you up all day. Highly recommend

This is the cutest little cafe/restaurant/cake shop ever. All the cakes are home made and absolutely delicious and even though I have yet to try them all they're such a sweet treat. All the workers are absolutely lovely and anytime I need something sweet I just come here. They do serve lunch and other food as well, so if you don't enjoy sweets that's not your only option. Their menu has a pretty good range of lunch and breakfast options, and so far all the food we've had has been delicious. If you're visiting South Melbourne I recommend you come here first!

Service is good but the food is underwhelming. Coffee is decent as well as the big breakfast. The kitkat cheese cake tastes weird. I could taste the kitkat but not the rest of the ingredients which is disappointing as i really love cheesecakes. I will not be back but i will continue to explore in this area as there’s a lot of good cafe’s there

Extremely disappointed with the service and the food. Most importantly, I noticed multiple staff wearing glove on one hand only, and touching food with the other hand, and handling cash at the same time. When it comes to food, their cakes are very stale and overpriced compared to other cafes in the area. The coffees were the absolute worst I’ve ever tried in Melbourne. Refer to the pics and you would see what they refer to as flat white and cappuccino. The flat white had two inches of froth on the top and the milk tasted terrible. You would barely see smiles in this cafe; specially the young lady at the register was very impolite.

On a lovely Sunday afternoon, my partner and I took my daughter out for a walk down to South Melbourne. We came across this beautiful cafe displaying lots of yummy cheese cakes in the front window. It was so overwhelming as I haven't had cheesecake for a long time. I ended up buying over $50 worth of cakes to take home. The cakes were very fresh and delicious. I will be back next Sunday for more! 😂

Visited today with my partner, spent $17 on a French vanilla and a fruit custard tart. Disapointed with both cakes, the vanilla pastry tasted like its been around for days, not crispy but soggy pastry the fruit tart strawberries had a off sour taste. The custard tasted no different from both cakes. It was once a good place , they have lost their way with care on what they make. Last time, voting with my feet.