Maxim’s Bakery

Maxim’s Bakery, also listed in some directories under the fuller name Maxim’s Oriental Bakery, operates from the Oakland Shopping Center at 4269 North State Road 7 in Lauderdale Lakes, in the same plaza as Silver Pond Restaurant, Gou Lou Cheong BBQ and Caleb’s Mountain Pizza near the city’s northern retail cluster. The “Oriental” designation in its fuller name points to an Asian bakery specializing in the style of baked goods, egg tarts, pineapple buns, barbecue pork pastries and similar items, commonly found in Chinese and broader East and Southeast Asian bakeries, distinguishing it from the Haitian, Caribbean and Western-style bakeries found elsewhere in the city.

Its Yellow Pages listing puts the business at twenty-one years in operation, placing its founding at roughly 2005, and lists both bakery and restaurant category classifications, suggesting the shop may offer some prepared food items alongside its baked goods rather than functioning purely as a bread-and-pastry counter. The listed hours show the bakery open Monday through Wednesday and again Saturday and Sunday, from 9am to 6pm, with no hours published for Thursday or Friday in the directory checked for this profile, an unusual gap that could reflect either a genuine mid-week closure or simply incomplete directory data; anyone planning a Thursday or Friday visit should call ahead to confirm the bakery is open.

The bakery accepts cash only, according to its directory listing, a payment policy shared with its plaza neighbor Gou Lou Cheong BBQ and common among smaller, family-run Asian bakeries and restaurants in this part of Broward County. No customer reviews, independent website, or corporate registration search were identified or conducted for this business as part of this profile, leaving its Yellow Pages listing and the Census Bureau’s address confirmation as the two primary sources underlying this entry.

Positioned in a shopping center that already carries a Cantonese restaurant and a Chinese barbecue counter, Maxim’s Bakery rounds out the Oakland Shopping Center’s cluster of independent Chinese and Asian food businesses with a dedicated bakery option, giving residents in this part of Lauderdale Lakes a one-stop plaza for several distinct styles of Chinese cooking and baking without having to drive further along the corridor. Its twenty-one years of operation in the same location suggest a stable, established presence within that plaza even without extensive third-party documentation of its specific offerings.

The Oakland Shopping Center sits near the northern edge of Lauderdale Lakes’ State Road 7 corridor, close to the boundary the city shares with Lauderhill and Coconut Creek, and its cluster of small, family-run Chinese businesses, Maxim’s Bakery among them, represents one of the more historically continuous parts of the city’s independent food scene, with several of the plaza’s tenants reporting two decades or more of operation at the same address.