Danny's Kiwi Bakery is a bakery at 2/6 Harris Street, Pukekohe, rated 4.4 from 198 Google reviews. A previous listing mentions national award placings. Reviewers praise a good variety of pies, including a double cheese pie with light, crisp pastry and steak and cheese pies with generous portions of meat, and also mention deep-fried chicken and chips, cream donuts, cakes and friendly service.
A good bakery does its work early, so the pastry, bread and cabinet items are at their best in the morning, when pies are warm and fillings are fresh. A pie is judged on its pastry, which should be crisp or flaky without being greasy, and a filling with real chunks of meat and good gravy, and trying a classic such as steak and cheese is the easiest way to judge a shop. Cream donuts and cakes are best eaten the same day, so buy what you will eat. If you are buying for a group or an event, order ahead, since popular lines can sell out by lunchtime, and ask what is hot out of the oven.
For Pukekohe locals and farm and market workers on Harris Street, it is a friendly bakery for pies, cakes and a quick lunch.