Long Track Pantry — Restaurant in Jugiong

Most highly recommended but quietly hoping it doesn't get too discovered. All the staff are on the ball and lovely. We stumbled upon Long Track Pantry in 2014 after spending our first night of an extended moho adventure at an excellent spot around the corner by the river. We spent a small fortune - beautiful breakfast, top shelf coffee, lunch to take away, and lots of household, souvenir and wotnots - including a tea cup and rubber spatchulas we still use multiple times every day 7 years later. We also filled up with fruit and veg next door (which has since been gentrified into a fancy wine cellar shop). I stopped here again (Feb 2021, passing by for work) grabbed a coffee, egg bacon roll and raided the shop again for a menagerie of birthday gifts for the Mrs. It was busy for sure and some renovations have taken place but it's still quaint and reasonably unspoilt, and the camping spot was still ace. The egg bacon roll and coffee were both worth a right leg imho but only $17 ish. Definitely not your average coffee, food and service and well worth a detour and actually well priced for...

So I ordered my coffee and Ahmad a lovely but short interaction with the lady taking orders. They had a lot of coffees going so I happy to wait. I noticed there the run stopped and still my order hadn’t arrived. I asked them what was happening and the order hasn’t been transferred to the baristas. I can handle long waits, the place is very busy and had great reviews but for them to be so slack as to just not be able to handle an order, f ‘em, I got a refund.

On another note these people are very environmentally bankrupt. I was puzzled as to why so many take away coffee cups were going out on trays. They actually serve takeaway paper cups with the plastic lids to guests eating in. WT serious F is wrong with these people? Jugiong is a lovely place where I used to stop in with my daughter on a hot day travelling back from Melbourne to Canberra to use their public pool. With this business having opened up it seemed like an even more idealistic oasis to stop for a break, but I absolutely recommend avoiding these morally...

Take a short 2 minute detour at the exit off the Hume hwy at Jugiong and you will find Long Track Pantry on the main road. There is car parking along the road at the front of the store.

The main store hosts a cafe, along with a retail outlet for locally made produce; from jams, sauces, vinaigrettes, cookie and cake ingredients, pastas, sweets and more; to kitchenware and clothing.

The cafe serves breakfast to 11.30 and a lunch and snack menu from then on. Hot drinks to your liking are available. The lunch menu includes pies, steak sandwiches, toasties, wraps and more. If you're after a sweet treat, you will find freshly made cookies, muffins, slices and cakes at the order counter.

All seating is outdoors, though under cover.

Take a stroll to the next door and you shall find Long Track Pantry wines.

Take a break off the boring Hume hwy and you shall be pleasantly rewarded with a refreshingly tasty break and hunger satisfaction. It's certainly a billion times better than the fast food and fuel service options along...