Lytton West Bakery is a neighbourhood bakery at 11 Lytton Rd in Riverdale, Gisborne, holding a 4.1 Google rating from customers.
The measure of a good New Zealand bakery is what comes out warm in the morning: fresh bread, savoury pies with properly flaky pastry, and sweet counter favourites that tend to sell down through the day. Locals usually time their visit for late morning or lunch, when the range is fullest, and judge a place by its mince pie before anything else. It pays to ask what was baked that day rather than picking from whatever is left near closing. The best bakeries build their reputation on a few things done well, done daily.
For Riverdale locals and anyone travelling Lytton Rd, Lytton West Bakery is the sort of everyday stop that keeps a suburb in bread and pies.