The Central Hotel: phone 6859 2300. Open daily. Counter & take-away lunches available weekdays. The popular Moonlight Restaurant is open in the dining room on Friday nights. Booking is recommended.

Cobb n Dough Bakery: phone 6859 2420. Freshly baked bread, cakes, pizzas, pies available daily from Slippery’s Super Centre (supermarket). You’ll find it - just follow your nose!

Eat Your Greens Function Centre: phone 6859 2386. Catering for weddings and all occasions, they serve modern Australian fare and local Australian wines. Eat Your Greens is located on the site of the old golf course, 2km north of Eugowra. It provides a perfect private tranquil setting amongst the gum trees for that special occasion. Visit www.eatyourgreens.com.au for a look at the menu.

Escort Rock Café: phone 6859 2727. Open 7 days. Dine inside or out. Eat in the Bushranger Restaurant or take-away. A great place to hide out and they won’t hold you up!

Eugowra Quality Meats: phone 6859 2372. Call in, meet Bill "The Snag King", and try some of his sausages! They sell cooked chooks, deli meats and salads, groceries, taste-tempting local pork and delicious lamb cutlets. Open Mondays to Saturdays.

The Fat Lamb Hotel: phone 6859 2253. The Fatty serves snacks or counter lunches daily and a la carte meals on Thursday, Friday and Sunday nights in the dining room.

The Lady Bushranger: phone 6859 2900. Enjoy a light lunch, tea or coffee and maybe some taste tempting scones with cream while you relax and soak up the ambience of Lees’ old store, full of homewares, furnishings and giftware. Open Wednesdays to Sundays.

Pistachio Orchard: phone 6859 2548. Ask Andrew if you can have a look at his nuts and do a taste-test! Purchase freshly roasted pistachio nuts in 125g or 500g bags. Pistachio Orchard is 1.5 km south of the town on the road to Gooloogong.

..............Pistachios on the tree.......................Freshly harvested Pistachios.............Sun drying (pink flesh off)

Slippery’s Super Centre: phone 6859 2420. While you’re in there picking up your groceries, fruit, veg and bread, have a chat with Slippery or Trish, grab a newspaper, leave your dry cleaning, borrow a DVD and send a message from the internet café. Oh, yes, you might like to buy a lottery ticket or try a scratchy too, just for luck!

Smiths Shed: phone 6859 2218. Fruit and vegetables are available in season . Smith’s is a "fruit salad" farm where they grow pumpkins, tomatoes, cherries, peaches, oranges etc. Look for the signs on your left as you come into Eugowra along the Orange road. If Judy, the check-out chick and local news-hound is missing, she’s undoubtedly on the phone! So use the honesty tin and smile for the camera!