Love Rosie Bakery is a cafe at 50 Ninth Avenue in Brookfield, Tauranga, and its 4.5 rating from 773 Google reviews points to a loyal local following. Timing matters most at a bakery cafe: the good ones bake in small batches through the morning, so shelves are fullest early, and regulars know that arriving soon after opening is the surest way to get first pick of the day's loaves and pastries. Coffee carries nearly as much weight as the baking, and plenty of customers judge a cafe on its flat white alone, so a steady queue at the machine is often the truest sign you have found a good one. It also pays to watch what locals carry out — a counter that empties before lunch is doing something right. On its patch of Brookfield, Love Rosie Bakery gives this part of Tauranga a proper local stop for coffee and something fresh from the oven.