Reading your inquiry made me think about Gursk's pantry. Though hers may be not be as wide as yours, she really made good use of the space IMHO. You might find some inspirations in what she did. I've linked to her finished kitchen thread below. She posted pictures, and, as you read through the comments, you'll find where she identifies sources for pantry storage items.

Finally, go for "regular" doors instead of bifold or sliding, since that would give you full access to the pantry. All of our local building supply places have what they call the "dog pile" where they sell excess inventory and orders-in-error at quite low prices. We've picked up some door and window bargains there. Craigslist is another option for building materials.

Here is a link that might be useful: Gursk's kitchen & pantry

Gursk's pantry is pretty impressive, Kashmi, without spending thousands of dollars on high-end hardware.

Aloha, 30x60 is actually a whole lot of space if utilized the way it can be these days, much more than most of us really need for food storage. Since you apparently do need coat storage by that entry, I'd suggest the possibility making a coat closet and a pantry from it, divvying up the space as it suited you. Save yourself from potentially decades of pushing coats and boots out of the way to get to the rice and cat food. :)

Of course, if you did that you'd probably would want to develop the entire depth of a lesser width for food storage, such as Gursk did or even building in a couple of pull-outs. Perhaps with hardware from Ikea, good but comparatively inexpensive.

those shelves are definitely too deep...if you make your shelves about 12-15" deep you should then be able to put shelves about 12 or so inches wide and maybe 6-8" deep along either side - giving you tons more storage. Use those for really shallow things like canned goods, bottle goods

try a few of these previous pantry threads on here. There will be links on these to other pantry threads also.

http://ths.gardenweb.com/forums/load/kitchbath/gal0214583516468.html?10

http://ths.gardenweb.com/forums/load/kitchbath/msg1122521925815.html

http://ths.gardenweb.com/forums/load/kitchbath/msg1212483728723.html

http://ths.gardenweb.com/forums/load/smallerhomes/msg081216547422.html?9

Here is a link that might be useful: pantry thread

Just occurred that you could also do the coat storage as a pull-out. Would four 15" pullouts fit, with more storage above?

One of the closets off our courtyard entry is a combo coat/linen. There's a rod on one side for coats and shelves on the other for towels, etc. Large shelf across the top for hats, gloves, umbrellas, etc. We used French doors and they allow complete access.

I have a pantry a tad larger than yours but the entry way is such that it is long verse wide. I have a variety of shelf widths, BTY, this was original to the home from the 1970s. Instead of a rod which actually may waste space, why not hooks on the wall. These are esp. useful if you have kids (they won't hang a coat but they tend to use hooks.) The problem with a large pantry, at least at my house is that it used to be disorganized and food would go bad because we could not always see what we had. I would go with something to help organize the space ( this includes better lighting).

Hooks make hanging quick, but a rod gives you room for more coats.

I have a pantry a tad larger than yours but the entry way is such that it is long verse wide. I have a variety of shelf widths, BTY, this was original to the home from the 1970s. Instead of a rod which actually may waste space, why not hooks on the wall. These are esp. useful if you have kids (they won't hang a coat but they tend to use hooks.) The problem with a large pantry, at least at my house is that it used to be disorganized and food would go bad because we could not always see what we had. I would go with something to help organize the space ( this includes better lighting).

I would definitely either do U-shaped shelves (as desertsteph describes) or get Ikea or some other pull-outs-- you'll never use stuff in the back of shelves that deep if you just put in shelves.

Or really use it only for larger items-- meaning small appliances etc.-- and use the saved cabinet space for food storage organizing such as pull-outs. But the question then is whether you really have enough small appliances that you use in a way that it'll work to have to pull them out of the pantry. Our ice cream maker, for example, lives in the pantry, but the blender and Cuisinart live in the kitchen and it would be annoying to have to go to the pantry to get them.