Tip Top Bread is a bakery on Cashew Street in Grenada North, a northern suburb of Wellington, trading under one of New Zealand's best-known bread brands and carrying a 3.0 Google rating.
Bread bakeries live and die by timing. Loaves come out in batches, and regulars tend to learn the rhythm: arrive soon after a bake for the warmest bread and the fullest shelves, or later in the day for what remains. It helps to know which loaf you are after, because a soft sandwich bread that survives a lunchbox is a different proposition from a crusty sourdough with a two-day lifespan, and a good bakery will be straight about the difference. Bread is best on the day it is baked, so buy with a plan: toast it, share it, or get it into the freezer by tomorrow.
For shoppers in northern Wellington, this Cashew Street bakery puts a familiar name on the Grenada North doorstep.