Top Taste Lunch Bar & Bakery sits on Te Rapa Road in Hamilton's Te Rapa, combining a bakery counter with the everyday New Zealand lunch bar, and holds a 4.5 rating on Google. A good bakery and lunch bar lives and dies by the morning bake: pies with pastry that shatters rather than sogs, and a filling-to-gravy ratio that favours the meat. Regulars arrive before the midday rush, while the best pies are still in the warmer and the filled rolls haven't been picked over, and they watch where the tradies queue, since a line of high-vis is the surest sign of stock that turns over daily. Sweet cabinets, sausage rolls and sandwiches usually round things out, so one counter covers morning tea and lunch in a single stop. On this busy northern Hamilton stretch, it sits right in the path of the weekday crowd that passes through Te Rapa each day.