This dairy at 40 Coutts Street in Kilbirnie, Wellington, holds a perfect 5.0 rating from its three Google reviews — a small tally, but a spotless one. The dairy is one of New Zealand's quiet institutions: the corner shop that bridges the gaps between supermarket runs. A good one covers the essentials — bread, milk, the paper — alongside a pie at lunchtime or an ice block on a hot afternoon. Because most are owner-operated, the best are run by people who know their regulars, stock what the street actually buys, and keep hours that suit the neighbourhood. Locals tend to judge a dairy on two things: how quickly you're in and out, and whether it has the one thing you came for. For the neighbours on Coutts Street, it reads as the kind of local stop a suburb like Kilbirnie is glad to have.