Baked @ Devonport is a family owned artisan bakery in the heart of Devonport, Auckland, in the same hands since 1997. After the sale of the landmark Stone Oven Café in 2015, the family created a small bakery kitchen on Clarence Street that has since become a Devonport institution — known above all for fresh bread and its famous pies. The team behind it has spent more than 25 years making Auckland's favourite baked goods the old-fashioned way: from scratch, in small batches, using the finest ingredients, and for many years supplying establishments across the city alongside its own shopfront. The cabinet ranges from butter chicken pies and fresh ham filled rolls to pain au chocolate and smiley-face treats, with coffee served by an experienced barista team up front. Open seven days a week, with online ordering and daily collections between 8am and 2pm, it is a genuine neighbourhood bakery, well known among locals and tourists alike.
For more than 25 years, the bakers behind Baked @ Devonport have been making Auckland's favourite baked goods the old-fashioned way: from scratch, in small batches, using the finest ingredients. For most of that time, those goods found their way to the city through other establishments that served Baked's baking under their own roofs. Eight years ago, that changed: the family opened the doors of its own bakery kitchen on Clarence Street in Devonport and began selling direct to the people of the seaside village — and its many visitors.
The story stretches back further than the shopfront. Baked is a proud family owned business, in the same hands since 1997. When the landmark Stone Oven Café was sold in 2015, the family took the opportunity to build something smaller and more personal: a little artisan bakery devoted to craft baking. In the years since, it has quietly become a Devonport institution — the local answer to where to find fresh bread and, above all, famous pies. The reputation has travelled well beyond the neighbourhood, and the bakery is now well known among locals and tourists alike.
What makes the place feel the way it does is its people. Baked @ Devonport describes itself as a family run business with a small, close-knit team — and some of that team have been part of it for more than ten years. The family remains at the heart of the operation, the same hands that guided the business through the Stone Oven Café years now steering the Clarence Street bakery. That continuity shows in both the baking and the welcome at the counter.
The wholesale roots still run deep, too. Alongside the shopfront, the bakery continues its long tradition of making baked goods for establishments across Auckland, so the same baking you buy over the counter is the baking that has built the name over a quarter of a century.
Pies are the headline act. The famous pie range is what the bakery is best known for, and the butter chicken pie is one of its standouts. Alongside the pies you'll find fresh bread, baked from scratch; fresh ham filled rolls for an easy lunch; pain au chocolate for anyone partial to proper pastry; and smiley-face treats that bring a bit of fun to the cabinet. Coffee comes from experienced baristas on the front-of-house team.
Everything follows the same philosophy that has guided the business for 25 years: made by hand, from scratch, in small batches, with the finest ingredients. It is a simple formula, but it is the reason this little bakery has become a fixture in a village with no shortage of places to stop.
If you would rather not take your chances with the queue, the bakery offers online ordering through its website, with several ways to order. Collections run daily between 8am and 2pm, so you can arrange your pies, bread and pastries in advance and pick them up on your own schedule — handy for weekend visitors or anyone who wants to be sure the pie they're after is waiting for them rather than the other way around.
You'll find Baked @ Devonport at 12c Clarence Street, Devonport, Auckland. The bakery opens seven days a week: 6am to 3:30pm Monday to Friday, and 7am to 3pm on weekends and public holidays — an early opening that gives first pick of the day's bake to anyone up with the sun.
Questions and orders can be made by phone on 09 446 0018 (leave a message) or by email to orders@bakedatdevonport.co.nz. Whether you come for a famous pie, a fresh loaf, or a pain au chocolate with a barista-made coffee, you'll be tasting more than 25 years of craft baking from a family that has never stopped doing it the old-fashioned way.