Jacksons Bakery & Cafe
15 Middle Road
Havelock North
Phone : 06 877 5708

Reprint from Otago Daily Times July 2008
For the second consecutive year the nation's Supreme Pie Award has been won by a Havelock North bakery but this time the winning entry is not vegetarian.

Neville Jackson from Jackson's Cafe and Bakery, Havelock North, won with a chicken and vegetable pie, comprising chicken with leeks, celery, carrot and broccoli in a creamy white sauce flavoured with garlic and onion.
Mr Jackson also won two other gold medals in Bacon and Egg and Seafood, with that pie comprising smoked hoki, prawns and scallops in a lime mornay sauce.
Last year Mr Jackson's supreme pie won with a vegetable filling of carrots, silver beet, broccoli, red capsicum and cauliflower in a creamy white sauce.
It was a controversial pick, sparking debate whether a pie was a really a pie if it contained no meat.
Purists will be slightly happier with the choice of a chicken pie this year but it seems the humble mince pie has a long way to go to get back to its competitive best.