One thing you can guarantee on a family road trip is that there will be a lot of pies consumed. The pie is ideal road trip food - fast, portable and can be eaten one handed at the wheel if necessary (make sure it's not super hot inside before attempting this - a mouthful of lava while speeding down the highway can pose some challenges in staying on the road, especially when the lava leaking from the bitten pie starts to run down your arm and fall into your lap). A bad pie is pretty bad. The service station 4n20 is one of the worst eating experiences ever. Fortunately pretty much every country town you pass through will have a bakery that either makes pies on site or at the very least has something better in the pie warmer than the luke warm, soggy 4n20 in a plastic bag on offer at the servo.
Today, the lunchtime hunger pangs struck just out of Goulburn. A quick search turned up Bryant's bakery. Apparently a local legend for quality pies. We pulled off the main drag, walked in and grabbed ourselves a few. And you know what? They are pretty good. I had pepper steak and an apple pie to finish. Others had steak and mushroom, apple and loganberry, sausage rolls and curried lamb. They were all good. The apple pie was a standout though. Really nice pastry. We washed them down with milkshakes. Best milkshakes I have had in a very long time. The sort you used to get as a kid - a huge metal cup filled to the brim with frothy milk and thickened with a huge quantity of ice-cream. Fantastic.
If you are passing through Goulburn and need lunch on the run, this is the place to go. read more
