Carlyle Street Bakery And Cafe is a bakery and cafe at 106 Carlyle Street in Napier South, Napier, holding a 4.5 rating from 100 reviews. Customers call it their go-to for coffee, morning tea and lunch, praising the food, prices and staff, and it is noted as wheelchair friendly.
In New Zealand a bakery-cafe lives or dies by its pies: crisp flaky pastry around a generous, well-seasoned filling, with the contents varying batch to batch, so it is worth asking what is in the pie warmer. Greasy pastry is the tell of a pie that has sat too long or been made on the cheap, and regulars notice. Most order at the counter and arrive mid-morning, before the lunch rush thins the cabinet of sandwiches and slices.
Just out of Napier's town centre, this clean, well-priced stop on Carlyle Street is the kind of place locals keep coming back to.