Gunsynd Bakery
Named for Gunsynd, the grey racehorse that made this border town famous in the early 1970s, the bakery on Marshall Street has become a landmark in its own right. The business has traded in Goondiwindi since 1972 and has stayed in the same family for four generations, now run by Debbie Ash. It opens early for the truck drivers and tradesmen heading out along the highway, the cabinet stacked with pies, sausage rolls, cinnamon buns, lamingtons and freshly baked bread. There is nothing precious about it, and that is the appeal: consistency, volume and the kind of unfussy country baking that has kept locals coming back for decades. The coffee is solid, the crowd a cross-section of the town, and the pies draw praise from the pie-obsessed travellers who make a study of such things along the inland routes.