Mah-Ze-Dahr

$5/ croissant Mah-Ze-Dahr was established in 2013 and founder Umber Ahmad opened her first brick-and-mortar location in 2016. Mah-Ze-Dahr is a Pakistani (Urdu) word that reportedly means ‘the magic or essence that makes something special’. Despite its Urdu name, from what I saw Mah-Ze-Dahr mostly follows French bakery tradition and adds some novelties/skews to this base. This is the only location that doesn’t have space for on-site baking so all the baked goods here are delivered from one of their other locations. Baking happens in the morning (as opposed to several times throughout the day) so the baked goods are freshest in the morning. That would be the best time to buy them. The croissant was excellent. It featured all the necessary characteristics that make it —a croissant, a proper one. Nice and buttery the way it should be. Flaky on outside the way it should be. Doughy on inside the way it should be. I was there around 3pm so yeah the only thing it lacked was freshness. And well yeah obviously overpriced… (Every bakery in France makes croissant this well for €1.20 so yeah unfortunately there is no New York artisan baker who will ever convince me that $5 is a sound price for a croissant).

We felt like we got scammed. 😂 we ordered ice matcha latte but this was entirely milk, maybe with some matcha powder sprinkled. Definitely not gonna get next time. The staffs were friendly though.

Had the honor and pleasure of doing henna for their first Eid Chaand Raat event and the turn out was great! Was lucky to try some of the food and it’s so good! Super excited to return to this beautiful space with amazing staff.

Their pastries are so good. Staff is quick and friendly. Great location inside of Brookfield! Love getting my morning coffee here before heading into the office. ☕️ ⌨️ 📝

Ordered a regular latte. Tastes awful, flavor like water left from rinsed-out pot. Did not try others but I will never get latte from there.

Their "old fashioned" donuts are the best thing on the menu, give them a try! (It says they're only temporary, but I hope they keep them!)

A fine clean bakery and the customer service from C.j. Is over the top naturally. No phony business here. THE SCONE IS WOW! CJ gave me a Jewish cake because he didn’t want to throw it away and that’s what he said and my response was: we do not throw away the Jewish ( cake) It was delicious thank you so much. Hope to see you all again.

Famous for their brioche donut, also offering a great old-fashioned donut, pretty much anything they offer is tasting fresh and well. However, you really wanna be around on a Friday and get the Cinnamon roll, which tastes incredibly fresh while still being warm, my favorite pastry here.