Centa Bakery is a bakery at 5/45 Jackson Street in Lower Hutt, holding a 4.6 rating on Google and keeping customers up to date through its Facebook page rather than a website of its own. A good neighbourhood bakery lives by its morning bake: the bread, pies and sweet things that come out first are what regulars set their clocks by, and popular lines can be gone well before lunch. Baking on site shows — you can often smell it from the footpath — and it never hurts to ask what came out of the oven most recently rather than picking blind from the shelf. Small bakeries usually work a short, well-practised range instead of trying to do everything, so the trick is to find the one or two things a place does best and come back for those. For anyone shopping or working along Jackson Street, Centa Bakery is a handy local stop for fresh baking.