Silo Bakery

Ph: 6260 6060; 36 Giles St, KINGSTON 2604 www.silobakery.com.au

Silo Bakery, $, ** for Food & Ambience
Open Breakfast Tue-Sat 7am-11.30am Lunch Tue-Fri 11.30am-2.30pm Sat noon3pm, Closed Public holidays Xmas Day-mid january; Licensed; AE DC MC V EFT
Chef Leanne Gray & Malcolm Kiose (29-11-08) Owner Leanne Gray & Graham Hudson (29-11-08)

Mietta's Review
The favourite spot for locals in the ACT. High quality breads and pastries are made in this award winning bakery. Sold direct to the public, the goodies are also available to eat in, and they feature on the breakfast and lunch menus. Silo also has a walk in cheese room, with an excellent selection of cheeses. Always busy. Many regard this as Canberra's best cafe.

Other published opinions

Age Good Food Guide 2009 "Yes, it gets packed. Yes, service can be brusque. But the capital's best bread and some of the nation's best tarts - try the vanilla brulee - make it worth it"

Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide 2009 Score: 14/20 "Get in early at Canberra's best bakery. By the time most of us are just opening our eyes on weekends, it's already heaving with locals jostling for excellent sourdough, Italian bread (stirato and casalinga), feather-light croissants and the apple and raisin variant, the addictive evie, plus the capital's finest coffee"

Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide 2008 Score: 14/20 "Reserve a loaf of the ACT's best bread, snoop about the small but sensational cheese room, then ponder your options"

Sydney Eats 2008 "A seasonally changing menu offers delights such as chestnut and chorizo soup, tarte flamiche with endive salad and a wonderful cassoulet $20 to keep you going all day in the winter months."

Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide 2007 Score: 14/20 "As if being the capital's best bakery isn't enough, Silo also happens to be one of its finest cafes, with great coffee to wash down a croissant, a brioche or a spectacular tart (try the chocolate and prune) from the marble bench top."

SMH Good Food Guide 2006 Score 13/20 "Silo could be simply described as Canberra's best bakery - if it weren't for the splendid cheese room, those luscious, irresistible pastries and the serious sit-down menu with wines to match. Scientist and chef couple Graham Hudson and Leanne Gray deliver consistently evocative food to the point where they can even serve a convincing chicken caesar roll - in this long, thin, slick, loud and always hectic room."

Gourmet Traveller Australian Restaurant Guide 2006 "Silo fans pursue their baked treats with worrying fervour. It's safe to say Leanne Gray's unrivalled stirato and sourdough breads, or perfect tarts"

Gourmet Traveller Australian Restaurant Guide 2006 - Best cafes "Silo, it's gotta be said, is the blueprint for what Canberra cafes should be like great coffee, nice food and bakery treats, plus a cheese room. Sadly no one has had the sense to replicate the formula successfully elsewhere in town."

Sydney Eats 2006 "It's not just the excellent breads and pastries that bring people from far afield; it's also the unfussy decor, good service and very good food and wine. Not to mention the cheese room. The former butcher shop is long and thin, and when busy, which is most ofthe time, it can get quite crowded."

SMH GFG 2005 Score 13/20 "Canberra would be a poorer place without Leanne Gray and her incredibly popular bakery. Together with hubby Graham Hudson, she hardly needs to run a cafe from the same room in super-cool Kingston. There's a timelessness to the loud, narrow, warehouse-style space with its high ceiling, a little science going on in the walk-in cheese room and a lot of thought in the food. The coffee can be seriously good and the pastries are justifiably famous."

Sydney Cheap Eats 2005 "If Silo was three times the size, it would be just as busy. Breakfast is hugely popular on Saturday, with some people just here for the bread and pastries - and they're prepared to travel for them."

Gourmet Restaurant Guide 2005 "Part bakery, bistro and cafe, Silo is a safe haven for local foodies." Also mentioned in Best Cafes.

SMH GFG 2004,Score 13/20,And-come for breakfast,take home the goodies or do both,'Sitting inside, you may feel overwhelmed by the frenetic pace and constant stream of bread buffs hurrying out juggling paper bags stuffed with sourdough,but a table outside lets you watch Kingston life pass by as you ponder a baker's-dozen lunch menu with suggested wine matches.'

Gourmet Traveller Restaurant Guide Australia 2004, Good vegetarian options,'Silo is always busy and invariably noisy...hearty French, Itailan and Spanish-inspired food that sings with flavour...The wine list is thoughtful and fairly priced'

Canberra Times 26/7/2000 Susan Parsons - Canberra is blessed with bread ... the sourdough from Silo in Kingston...