The Bakehouse Cafe Roast and Grill is a bakery and cafe at 2 Brookland Road in Western Heights, Rotorua, with a Google rating of 4.0 from 74 reviews. Customers mention friendly staff, pies, steak and cheese pies and sausage rolls, and large portions. Reviews are mixed, with complaints about cold or reheated chips, stale pastry and pies with little meat.
A good bakery and grill is judged on what comes out of the cabinet and the kitchen. Pies and sausage rolls should taste fresh, with pastry that is crisp rather than soggy, and a filling with enough meat and gravy to match the price. Cream pastries are best eaten on the day they are made, and hot food should arrive hot. Regulars often pick one favourite item and check it each visit, since that is the quickest test of a bakery's consistency.
Its Brookland Road cafe makes it a handy place for a pie or a takeaway meal in Western Heights, Rotorua.