Massey Bakery & Cafe is a neighbourhood bakery and cafe at 404 Don Buck Road in Massey, West Auckland, holding a 4.3 Google rating. A good bakery-cafe earns its keep on the morning bake: the bread, pies and pastries that come out of the oven first are worth timing a visit around. The pie is the honest test at any New Zealand bakery — pastry that stays crisp, and a filling with more meat than gravy. The cafe side of the trade adds coffee and somewhere to sit, which is why regulars tend to linger rather than dash. Go early for the fullest pick, because by mid-afternoon the trays have usually thinned. On Don Buck Road in Massey, it puts that kind of bakery-cafe within easy reach of the surrounding western suburbs.