Sweet & Co is a bakery at Shop 5, Waitangirua Mall in Aotea, Porirua, and it holds a perfect 5.0 rating on Google.
A good bakery lives by timing: bread and pastries are best within hours of the oven, and the popular lines — at a Kiwi bakery that usually means the pies, filled rolls and slices — tend to be gone well before closing. Regulars learn the baking rhythm, arrive early, and ask what's made on site rather than delivered in. For celebration cakes or a tray for a work shout, ordering a day or two ahead saves disappointment. A steady queue of locals mid-morning is the surest sign you've found the real thing.
For Waitangirua and Aotea shoppers, a bakery rated this well in the mall is a handy thing to have on the doorstep.