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Harry's Café De Wheels [Explore]
Not a place for a first date, according to The Bachelor's Laurina: “Everyone else gets Ferraris, super yachts and private jets, and I get a dirty street pie.” Dressed to the nines, she didn't expect sitting on a stool outside a pie cart :)
But Harry's has been a great photo-op for visiting celebrities - Elton John, Frank Sinatra, Marlene Dietrich, Kevin Costner, Pamela Anderson, Olivia Newton-John, Russell Crowe and Richard Branson to name a few. Even KFC's Colonel Sanders has enjoyed a pie here. In 2002, the cart featured in Amazing Race.
It used to be an occasional late night fix for me when I lived in Potts Point. Once, at Victoria Street, my flatmate coming home completely plastered managed to smear a pie inside the lift. He was seen and chased by the security guard concierge who had to clean it up..."You...had that pie!"
The origins of Café de Wheels go back to the Depression, when Harry Edwards' mobile caravan served workers at the Garden Island naval base from Woolloomooloo. It closed when he enlisted in the AIF in 1938. He reopened it when demobbed in 1945. An ex-boxer, Harry lent his 'Tiger' nickname to its signature meat pie with mushy peas, potato and gravy.
The name came about as there was a council rule which said street vendors couldn't stay in one spot. Delving further, he found he only had to move a foot a day, so would shift the caravan left one day and right the next!
He sold to Alex Koronya in 1975. In 1988 it was purchased by Michael Hannah of Hannah's Pies, who franchised the business to about 13 stores including Manila and Shenzhen (it looks like they have 13 stores now but the overseas franchises have closed). At one stage, someone stole the wheels leaving it as 'Cafe de Bricks'. The current owner since 2018 is Tino Dees, also the founder of smallgood wholesaler German Butchery.
‘Harry’s Café de Wheels’ was classified a Sydney icon by the National Trust of Australia (NSW), which added it to its register in 2004. The 1945 van is in the Powerhouse Museum.
Harry's Café De Wheels [Explore]
Not a place for a first date, according to The Bachelor's Laurina: “Everyone else gets Ferraris, super yachts and private jets, and I get a dirty street pie.” Dressed to the nines, she didn't expect sitting on a stool outside a pie cart :)
But Harry's has been a great photo-op for visiting celebrities - Elton John, Frank Sinatra, Marlene Dietrich, Kevin Costner, Pamela Anderson, Olivia Newton-John, Russell Crowe and Richard Branson to name a few. Even KFC's Colonel Sanders has enjoyed a pie here. In 2002, the cart featured in Amazing Race.
It used to be an occasional late night fix for me when I lived in Potts Point. Once, at Victoria Street, my flatmate coming home completely plastered managed to smear a pie inside the lift. He was seen and chased by the security guard concierge who had to clean it up..."You...had that pie!"
The origins of Café de Wheels go back to the Depression, when Harry Edwards' mobile caravan served workers at the Garden Island naval base from Woolloomooloo. It closed when he enlisted in the AIF in 1938. He reopened it when demobbed in 1945. An ex-boxer, Harry lent his 'Tiger' nickname to its signature meat pie with mushy peas, potato and gravy.
The name came about as there was a council rule which said street vendors couldn't stay in one spot. Delving further, he found he only had to move a foot a day, so would shift the caravan left one day and right the next!
He sold to Alex Koronya in 1975. In 1988 it was purchased by Michael Hannah of Hannah's Pies, who franchised the business to about 13 stores including Manila and Shenzhen (it looks like they have 13 stores now but the overseas franchises have closed). At one stage, someone stole the wheels leaving it as 'Cafe de Bricks'. The current owner since 2018 is Tino Dees, also the founder of smallgood wholesaler German Butchery.
‘Harry’s Café de Wheels’ was classified a Sydney icon by the National Trust of Australia (NSW), which added it to its register in 2004. The 1945 van is in the Powerhouse Museum.