Alexander Bakery is a bakery on Chapel Road in Flat Bush, Manukau City, Auckland, holding a 4.0 rating from 69 Google reviews. Customers describe a spacious, clean shop with a large selection of food and drinks at good prices, and several single out the Malaysian-style chicken curry pie for its pastry-to-filling ratio and warming spices.
In New Zealand, the pie is the usual test of a bakery: pastry that stays crisp rather than steaming soft, and filling that reaches the edge instead of pooling in the middle. A suburban bakery's character often shows in its savoury range, where curried and Malaysian-style fillings sit alongside cream buns and lamingtons in the cabinet. Popular items tend to come out of the oven early, so the best selection goes to morning visitors, and regulars know to ask what is made in-house.
For Flat Bush locals on Chapel Road, this is a handy, spacious stop for a pie or something sweet.