Queens Drive Dairy is a corner dairy at 186 Queens Drive in Te Aro, Wellington, holding a 4.5 rating on Google.
In New Zealand, a dairy is the neighbourhood corner shop — the place you duck into for milk, bread, an ice block or a lotto ticket on the way home. The good ones are usually family-run and open longer hours than the supermarkets, which is why locals lean on them for the top-up shop. Judge a dairy on how well it is stocked, whether the bread and milk are fresh, and whether the counter still sells single lollies to kids after school. Expect to pay a little over supermarket prices — that is the trade-off for having the essentials a minute from home.
For Te Aro, Queens Drive Dairy is exactly that sort of shop, sitting handy on Queens Drive with a rating to match.