Gladstone Bakehouse Cafe is a bakery and café at 130 Gladstone Rd in Gisborne Central, Gisborne, rated 4.2 on Google, with a Facebook page for news and updates.
A good bakery-café lives by what comes out of the oven that morning, and regulars plan around it: the first loaves and pastries of the day are usually the pick, and by mid-afternoon the best trays tend to be bare. Locals read a bakery quickly — the smell of fresh dough at the door, the turnover on the pie warmer, whether staff can tell you when the next batch lands. It pays to ask what is baked on site rather than brought in, and to order whatever the person ahead of you just did. In a town centre where mornings start early, that first-hour freshness is the whole point.
For anyone in or passing through Gisborne, this Gladstone Rd bakehouse is worth timing a morning visit around.