Butterfly Patisserie

Cakes and confections high in the tower

Butterfly Patisserie is the pastry counter of Rosewood Phnom Penh, set high in Vattanac Capital Tower, and it works as the sweet end of the hotel rather than as a neighborhood bakery. The range is narrow and deliberate: artisanal cakes, seasonal desserts and signature chocolates, made by the hotel’s pastry kitchen and finished the way that setting implies.

A polished atelier rather than a bakery

The room reads as an atelier, quiet and elegant, arranged around the desserts instead of around a dining scene. Smart casual is the register, and the counter suits a coffee and cake pause in the afternoon, a compact confection after a meal elsewhere in the hotel, or a boxed selection to take away. It draws hotel guests moving between venues, people using the property as a meeting point, and local visitors who want a dessert stop in a five-star setting.

Start with the cakes, then the chocolates

Cakes are the centre of the counter, so a slice or an individual gâteau is the clearest first order and the best read on the kitchen. Seasonal desserts follow the calendar and are the reason to look at the case rather than order from memory. The signature chocolates are the right choice for something smaller, for after a substantial meal, or as the thing that leaves with you.