Kiwi Pie Bakery is a bakery at 27 Everest Ave in Naenae, Lower Hutt, holding a five-star Google rating. The measure of a good pie bakery starts with the pastry: it should be crisp and flaky right to the base, not soggy where the filling has sat. Inside, the best pies carry chunky, well-seasoned meat in a gravy that holds its shape, and the cabinet is restocked as trays come out through the day rather than just once at dawn. Regulars learn that rhythm quickly — which hour brings the fresh batch, and which flavours are gone by mid-morning. On a suburban shopping strip, word travels fast about the bakery locals queue at, and reputations are built one lunchtime at a time. On Everest Ave in Naenae, Kiwi Pie Bakery's five-star rating suggests it has earned exactly that kind of following in Lower Hutt.