Harry's Cafe de Wheels - Sydney

Harry's Cafe de Wheels Menu

Harry's Cafe de Wheels Chili Pie

Harry's Cafe de Wheels Chicken Pie with Mashed Potatoes

I came across Harry's Cafe de Wheels on Trip Advisor and a few other places before we left for Australia, so, it was on our list for when we got to Sydney.  The fact that our guide for our two days on Kangaroo Island also recommended it made it move to the must list.  In fact, we were down to our last full day in Sydney and we still hadn't made it there, so, we hopped in a cab to try the pies from this institution.

My husband had the chilli (they spell it with two "l's" there) pie and I had the chicken pie with mashed potatoes.  This was by far our cheapest meal of the entire trip (including the price of the cab) except for maybe the cracker and cheese dinner we were forced to have in Penneshaw, but it was also one of the tastiest.  We weren't generally impressed by the food in Australia and we tried some of the most recommended spots.  However, these pies were good.  The chili one was spicy according to the husband and mine tasted homey and delicious. I don't care for gravy, but there was enough sauce inside the pie that it wasn't too dry with the potatoes.  Coupled with a Bundaberg Ginger Beer, this was a great, cheap meal.

We opted to walk back to the hotel thinking we could do it through the botanical gardens.  Well, we had a h-ll of a long walk.  We made it to Mrs. Macquarie's Chair to watch the sunset through the park, but little did we know that the park closed a few minutes before sunset that day.  So, we had to walk around the entire exterior of the park and completely out of the way to get semi close to the hotel.  So, what should have been a 30 minute walk at most turned into about an hour and a half walk as there were no short cuts.  It was a pretty walk, but just unexpected as the map we carried was very deceiving.  That walk made the climb up the hill to our hotel, the Shangri-La, that much harder that night.