Golden Tulip Bakery is a bakery at 59 Broadway Ave in the Manawatu village of Cheltenham, rated 4.3 from 73 Google reviews. Country bakeries live or die on timing: the loaves and filled rolls regulars come for are usually at their best mid-morning, and by early afternoon the pickings can be slim. A good sign is a cabinet that empties and gets refilled from the oven out the back, rather than trays that sit all day, so it pays to ask what came out fresh that morning. In a small settlement the bakery often doubles as an informal noticeboard and coffee stop, where the queue moves slowly because everyone is chatting. For Cheltenham and the surrounding farmland, Golden Tulip Bakery is the sort of local counter that keeps a community fed, and worth a stop if you're out this way.