The best bakery stop on Waiheke Island is Surfdale Bakery & Cafe, where the pie warmer starts at 6am on weekdays and the pies are the best on the island, so order one hot with chips on the side.
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Fish and chips · Surfdale · $
★ 4.2 from 140 Google reviews
On Miami Avenue in Surfdale, a couple of minutes' walk up from the beach, this bakery opens at six on weekday mornings and seven on weekends, and shuts by mid-afternoon, so it's made for breakfast, smoko and lunch rather than dinner.
Cafes · Ostend
★ 5.0 from 52 Google reviews
The croissants coming out of this Ostend oven are the sort people compare to a good French bakery, and more than one local will tell you they're the best on the island.
Bakeries · Ostend · $$
★ 4.6 from 65 Google reviews
At 30 Belgium Street in Ostend, this is the sort of bakery you build a Waiheke day around, with loaves, buns and pizza made from scratch and a cabinet full of sweet things.
Bakeries · Oneroa · $
★ 4.6 from 13 Google reviews
The building used to sell flowers and now it sells cakes, pastries and pies, which tells you most of what you need to know about this little bakery in the middle of Oneroa.
Bakeries · Onetangi
★ 5.0 from 6 Google reviews
The sign says local, organic, handmade, and that's the whole story at this small bakery on Totara Road in Onetangi, where two bakers who grew up on this kind of bread turn out German-style sourdough loaves, pretzels, cheese sticks, cakes and pastries from the kitchen.
Bakeries · Ostend
★ 4.7 from 7 Google reviews
If you're passing through Ostend, this little bakery on Tahi Road is the sort of stop that sorts out lunch in a couple of minutes.
Six bakeries make the cut, and three of them are in Ostend, so you can start at Take a Bite, Café & Pastries on Belgium Street, where the croissants come out warm from 7am on weekdays. Wander along Belgium Street to Franco's La Panetteria for focaccia pizza and gelato, then head to Oneroa for the raspberry cheesecake at The Old Flour Shop Bakery, which has settled into the village fast.
Onetangi has Mia Yeast, open Friday from 11 to 4 and Sunday mornings for breakfast rolls, with organic German-style sourdough and a shelf of gluten-free loaves. Waiheke Home Cookery on Tahi Road opens at six on weekdays, which is earlier than most places, so it works if you want a pie before the beach or the ferry.
Surfdale Bakery & Cafe gets the pie warmer going from 6am on weekdays and 7am at the weekend, and Waiheke Home Cookery on Tahi Road opens at six on weekdays, which is earlier than most places on the island. The Old Flour Shop Bakery in Oneroa opens at 7.30 each morning and shuts at 3.
Mia Yeast in Onetangi bakes a quinoa sourdough with no added gluten and keeps a whole shelf of gluten-free options, and The Old Flour Shop Bakery in Oneroa is set up for gluten-free customers too. If you want more than bakeries, the gluten-free page lists 23 places across Waiheke Island, from cafes to takeaways.
