Fendalton Convenience is a neighbourhood dairy at 39 Jeffreys Road in Fendalton, Christchurch, with a 4.0 rating on Google. A good dairy is the suburb's safety net: bread, milk, eggs and the paper when a supermarket trip feels like too much, plus a pie warmer and chiller for lunch on the run. The best of them keep longer hours than the big stores, opening early, staying open late and trading on days when supermarkets shut their doors. Regulars judge a dairy on how fresh the bread is and how cold the drinks are, and end up known by name at the counter. Expect a quick stop rather than a browse. For Jeffreys Road and wider Fendalton locals, this is the corner that saves the drive across town for a litre of milk.