Thoroughbread is a family-run bakery at 25 Totara Street in Levin that makes only gluten-free and paleo bread. It calls itself the home of gluten-free bread, and it describes itself as award-winning.
The business started in 1989, when its first loaf was baked in a tin hut in the Northland bush with a coal range oven. It began with wheat bread sold at a local market, and it became fully gluten-free after demand grew faster than it could bake. The website says outlets around the country keep increasing in number. Our pick in Levin for gluten-free bread baked to a long-tested recipe.