A dairy on Lyttelton Street in Spreydon, Christchurch, Lyttleton St Dairy holds a 4.4 Google rating from locals calling in for the essentials.
Dairies are New Zealand's corner shops: the place you go when you need milk, bread or a cold drink without tackling a supermarket car park. Most are owner-operated, which is why the good ones remember their regulars and stock the shelves with what the street actually buys — ice blocks in summer, fresh bread, the morning paper. Prices can run a little above the supermarket, but you're paying for speed and walking distance, not range. The measure of a decent dairy is simple: it's open when you need it, it stocks the thing you forgot, and it feels part of the neighbourhood rather than just sitting in it.
For anyone in Spreydon, this one does that job right on Lyttelton Street, with the rating to suggest locals think it earns its keep.