Johor Bahru Buy: Verrona Hills Bread & Patisserie

8 July 2026

Verrona Hills is a well-known premium bakery and pâtisserie chain in Malaysia celebrated for its wide array of freshly-baked, European-inspired artisanal breads, pastries, and cakes using high-quality ingredients. Its top signature items include Basque Cheese Toast, Lava Cheese Toast, Mille-feuille Toast, and various Swiss rolls.

Started in Kuala Lumpur in 2024, Verrona Hills expanded rapidly with a number of locations in major malls in the Klang Valley, Malacca and reaching Mid Valley Southkey Mall in Johor Bahru in May 2025. Two other outlets were opened in AEON Mall Tebrau City and KSL City Mall by end of 2025.

Verrona Hills Bread & Patisserie @ AEON Mall Tebrau City

Verrona Hills is popular for its freshly baked daily items, including croissants, pastries, premium-quality cakes, and Western fusion bakes. Their range of colourful artisan bagels with different fillings sit in a glass shelf fronting the outlet — and it caught my attention.

My first try at Verrona Hills began with a Purple Potato Taro Bagel and a Chicken Sausage & Cheese Bagel. Bagels are slightly larger in size as always.

The Purple Potato Taro Bagel is made to resemble a taro with purplish, cracky skin. It is light-tasting with a filling of low-sweet, potato-taro paste that gives a subtle taro flavour to the slight-chewy bagel.

Unlike the sweet-base taro bagel, the Chicken Sausage & Cheese Bagel is savoury and stronger in taste. The bagel is coated with cheese, seaweed flakes and white sesame seeds before baking. Embedded within the bagel are small cuts of chicken sausage and cheddar cheese with black pepper powder. It is a tasty treat, with natural savouriness from the ingredients used and with a hint of peppery-spiciness from the black pepper.

One of Verrona Hills’s most popular, chef-recommended best-seller is the Basque Cheese Toast — “Basque” are people from The Basques, a country straddling the borders between Spain and France. The European-style pastry features New Zealand cream cheese sitting on top of Mille-feuille toast and baked till golden and crispy, like burnt cheese. The cream cheese is creamy and not as cloying as aged cheese. The Mille-feuille toast has soft, thin buttery layers. The toast can be enjoyed layer by layer, but for this pastry, it is best to eat it with the cream cheese. This low-sugar pastry is very good and I now know why it is so popular.

The bakery offers Mille-feuille toast as a separate item too, which will be a better choice to tear through the layers.

The Classic Butter Cake sits in a plastic container and packaged inside a sturdy box. The delicious-looking butter cake is made using high-quality French butter and ultra-low sugar — probably the least sweetness butter cake I have ever tried. It carries a buttery aroma with a moist, crumbly texture and rich buttery flavour. The butter cake is not chilled and easier to bring back.