AmyHuangHarry's Cafe de Wheels
April 5th 2008 01:04
They've been around serving visiting sailors and visitors the iconic Aussie pie and hot dogs since 1945. Although its reputation is still high above the must-do list of Sydney, but the quality of their food is not as good as say, five years ago.
I visited them yesterday, not the original Harry's Cafe de Wheels at Woolloomooloo, but the one they opened up at Capitol Square near Central Station. I used to love my mid-night visits to the Woolloomooloo cart after a night out drinking, and I remember the creamy taste of the mash and the warm, tasty meat fillings of the pies used to leave me so satifisfied. But it wasn't so last night. I ordered my usual pie with mash (They stress the 'LEAN Beef Pie with Mash' part) and it just wasn't as good. The pastry was too dry, the mash was too dry and even the gravy wasn't satisfying.
There is also an obvious decline in the number of people eating there now. Where there used to be a line all the way to the corner of the block, now scattered pedestrians rock up and might order something if they feel like it.
Still, visitors should be taken to the Woolloomooloo cart, just for the sake of it. It is after all, one of the smaller icons of Sydney.
Harry's Cafe de Wheels
Cowper Wharf Rd
Woolloomooloo NSW
Capitol Square
Campbell St
Sydney NSW
(Image Source: Capitol Square.com.au)
I visited them yesterday, not the original Harry's Cafe de Wheels at Woolloomooloo, but the one they opened up at Capitol Square near Central Station. I used to love my mid-night visits to the Woolloomooloo cart after a night out drinking, and I remember the creamy taste of the mash and the warm, tasty meat fillings of the pies used to leave me so satifisfied. But it wasn't so last night. I ordered my usual pie with mash (They stress the 'LEAN Beef Pie with Mash' part) and it just wasn't as good. The pastry was too dry, the mash was too dry and even the gravy wasn't satisfying.
There is also an obvious decline in the number of people eating there now. Where there used to be a line all the way to the corner of the block, now scattered pedestrians rock up and might order something if they feel like it.
Still, visitors should be taken to the Woolloomooloo cart, just for the sake of it. It is after all, one of the smaller icons of Sydney.
Harry's Cafe de Wheels
Cowper Wharf Rd
Woolloomooloo NSW
Capitol Square
Sydney NSW
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Comment by Jason King
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You should visit Fran and Sue's Upper Crust at Collaroy. Is a pie shop open days only so no drunken visits, also very expensive for a pie. Try $7- to $8-. But OMG. Chicken and asparagus pies, tuna and avacado pies and sausage rolls with bacon and cheese wrapping the meat. Yummmmmm.
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personally, I love some of the gourmet pies that come out of the bakeries... there's a deli in Paddington that makes a beef bourignon pie...flaky crust, juicy filling... $4
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