Evan's Bakehouse is a local bakery and lunch bar on Olive Road in Penrose, Auckland, serving breakfast, smoko and lunch to one of the city's busiest working neighbourhoods. Doors open at 6am on weekdays and Saturdays for coffee, hot pies and something warm from the cabinet, alongside sandwiches, rolls, savouries, doughnuts and sweets, plus muffins and slices for morning tea.
The menu reaches well past the pie warmer: lunch-bar burgers (fish, beef, chicken, lamb, chicken BLT, egg & cheese and a veg option), toasties, make-your-own subs, sandwiches and salad bowls with nine fillings to choose from, hot dogs, and a full fried chicken and chips lineup. Munch packs scale from a solo Junior Munch to the crew-sized Monster Munch, and chips come seasoned with chicken salt, lemon pepper or spicy harissa — the chicken salt gets a specific shout-out in customer reviews.
Evan's also handles office catering from the Penrose shop — morning teas, team lunches and meetings — with pie boxes, club sandwiches, sausage rolls, savouries and sweet bites, and vegetarian options available. Customers rate the bakehouse 4.5 out of 5, praising the subs, the homemade pies and the service. It's at 5C Olive Road, Penrose; call 09 218 9315 to ask about today's range or a larger order.
Evan's Bakehouse is a local bakery and lunch bar on Olive Road in Penrose, serving one of Auckland's busiest working neighbourhoods from the crack of dawn. Doors open at 6am, and the day follows the area's own rhythm: coffee and something warm for breakfast, a fast smoko run mid-morning, and a proper lunch once the hunger really lands.
The cabinet covers the bakehouse classics — coffee, hot pies, sandwiches and rolls, savouries, doughnuts and sweets, plus muffins and slices for morning tea. But the kitchen goes well beyond the warmer. The in-store menu runs through burgers, toasties, make-your-own subs, sandwiches and salad bowls, hot dogs and a full fried chicken and chips lineup. Customers rate the place 4.5 out of 5, and more than one review credits a fresh burst of energy since the business changed hands.
The burger list reads like a lunch-bar greatest hits: fish, beef, chicken and lamb patties, a chicken BLT, egg and cheese, and a veg burger stacked with pineapple and sweet chilli. Each one comes with lettuce, onion and the house special sauce, with tartare, ketchup, honey mustard or mayo wherever they belong.
Toasties keep it simple — ham and pineapple, BLT, chicken and mayo, bacon and egg, or cheese and onion. If you'd rather call the shots, pick a sub, a sandwich or a salad bowl and choose from nine fillings, from spicy chicken and BBQ chicken to roast beef, corned beef, ham, a veg patty or fried chicken. One regular says the make-your-own subs are the reason he turns up every day. And for the traditionalists, there's a classic bakehouse hot dog.
The chicken and chips section scales from a quick solo feed to lunch for the whole crew. Thighs, drums and tenders are sold individually, but the Munch packs do the pairing for you. Start at a Junior Munch — one thigh or drum with regular chips — step up through the Double and the Kiwi Munch with one of each, and finish at the Mighty, Multi and Monster boxes built for sharing. The Monster alone carries four thighs, four drums and jumbo chips.
Chips come in regular, large or jumbo, with potato and gravy alongside if you want it. Seasoning is a genuine decision here: chicken salt, lemon pepper or spicy harissa. The chicken salt in particular gets named in reviews as delicious, and the same customers single out the fish burger — one calls it one of the best he's ever had — and the homemade pies.
When a morning tea, meeting or team lunch is coming up, Evan's runs bakery catering straight from the Penrose shop. The range covers club sandwiches, sausage rolls, savouries, muffins, slices and sweet bites, along with pie boxes that bundle pies, sandwiches, rolls, savouries and something sweet. Vegetarian options are available.
The process is deliberately simple: tell them roughly how many people you're feeding and what you're after, choose the food with their help, and they bring it to you. It's aimed at offices and work crews around Penrose who need a shout sorted without fuss.
Evan's Bakehouse is at 5C Olive Road, Penrose, Auckland 1061. Opening hours run from 6am, closing at 4:30pm on Mondays and Tuesdays, 6pm from Wednesday to Friday, and 2:30pm on Saturdays. The bakehouse is closed on Sundays, so a weekend visit needs to be a morning one.
If you're after something specific from the cabinet, the team suggests ringing 09 218 9315 before you head in — sensible advice in a bakery where the good stuff moves fast. Whether it's a 6am coffee, a smoko pie, a Munch box for the crew or catering for the whole floor, the promise stays the same: breakfast, smoko and lunch, sorted.