Trappers Bakery

Since opening in 2006, this Sowerby Street bakery has built its name on pies, the award-winning kind that draw travellers off the Hume as readily as they feed locals. Breads follow traditional recipes and a broad range is baked fresh each morning, alongside sausage rolls, quiches and sweet things, all made on site from scratch. An enclosed, north-east-facing verandah catches the morning sun, and the coffee is Allpress. It sits just off the freeway on the southern side of town, which has made it a dependable refuelling point on the Sydney to Canberra run without tipping into roadhouse anonymity. The counter still reads as a country bakery that takes its pastry seriously, and the queues on a long-weekend morning bear that out.