Bakers Dozen is a bakery at 139 East Coast Road in Castor Bay, on Auckland's North Shore, holding a 4.1 rating on Google. A good bakery lives by its morning bake: bread and pastries come out in batches through the early hours, so the best stock is on the shelves first thing and popular lines can be gone by mid-morning. Regulars go early, ask what's baked on site rather than delivered in, and judge a shop by the crust and crumb of a plain loaf before they bother with the fancy stuff. Weekend mornings are the busiest, and a queue of locals at the door is usually the surest sign of a good one. For Castor Bay locals and anyone travelling East Coast Road, Bakers Dozen is a handy neighbourhood stop.