Hawker Street Dairy is a corner dairy at 25 Hawker St in Wellington's CBD, carrying a solid 4.1 Google rating.
In New Zealand, a dairy is the corner shop that keeps a neighbourhood supplied: milk, bread and eggs at the last minute, cold drinks, confectionery, ice cream on a hot day, and the small essentials you only miss when you suddenly need them. In the city centre that convenience counts double, with office workers and apartment dwellers ducking in between meetings or on the walk home. Regulars tend to judge a dairy on turnover — bread and milk that sell fast stay fresh — and on the welcome, since the best owner-operators remember a face.
Tucked on Hawker St among the capital's offices and apartment blocks, it is well placed to be exactly that kind of stop.