Do Duck In is a bakery at 242 Stafford Street, on the main street in Hokitika, Westland, holding a 3.9 rating from 24 Google reviews.
A good bakery on the West Coast works to an early rhythm: ovens on before dawn, so the freshest bread, pies and sweet things come out in the morning and the best stock goes by mid-afternoon. Locals tend to judge a bakery on its savouries — a proper pie with crisp pastry and generous filling — while travellers look for filled rolls and something for the road. Regulars know to arrive early, ask what came out of the oven that day, and grab the last of something while they can; small-town bakeries bake to a day's demand rather than a stockroom. Good coffee is often the quiet sign of a well-run bakery counter.
Sitting on Hokitika's Stafford Street, Do Duck In is handy for anyone stopping in town on the coast road.