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Annapurna
It seems like half of Hobart lists Annapurna as their favourite eatery (bookings advised). Northern and southern Indian options served with absolute proficiency - the best Indian meal you'll have on the island, guaranteed! The masala dosa (south Indian crepe filled with curried potato) is a crowd favourite. BYO and takeaway available.
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Da Angelo
An enduring (and endearing) Italian ristorante, Da Angelo presents an impressively long menu of homemade pastas, veal and chicken dishes, calzone, and pizza with 20 different toppings. Colosseum and Carlton Football Club team photos add authenticity. Takeaway and BYO.
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Fish Frenzy
A casual, waterside fish nook that's perennially overflowing with fish fiends and brimming with deliciously prepared fish 'n' chips, fishy salads (spicy calamari, smoked salmon and brie) and fish burgers. The eponymous 'Fish Frenzy' delivers a little bit of everything. No bookings.
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Flippers Fish Punt
With its voluptuous fish-shaped profile and alluring sea-blue paint job, floating Flippers is a Hobart institution. Not to mention the awesome fish 'n' chips! Fillets of flathead and curls of calamari - straight from the deep blue sea and into the deep fryer.
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Jackman & McRoss
Be sure to swing by this conversational, neighbourhood bakery-cafe, even if it's just to gawk at the display cabinet full of delectable pies, tarts, baguettes and pastries. Early-morning cake and coffee may evolve into quiche or soup for lunch. Staff stay cheery despite being run off their feet.
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Jam Packed
Inside the redeveloped IXL Jam Factory atrium next to the Henry Jones Art Hotel, this cafe is jam-packed at breakfast time. If you're sporting a hangover of some description, the BLT is the perfect reintroduction to life, while the prawn puttanesca spaghetti, simmered in olive, tomato and caper sauce, makes a filling lunch.
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Kaos Café
A few blocks south of the main action, this laid-back, gay-friendly cafe busies itself with a tasty assortment of dishes (burgers, salads and risottos), serving until late (usually around ). Soak@Kaos bar is next door.
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La Cuisine
When La Cuisine opened its doors in the mid-80s, no-one in Hobart had seen a croissant before. With Basque house cakes, stuffed sourdough rolls, juicy quiches and sensational salads, La Cuisine dragged the city out of the white-bread culinary quicksand. Also at 108 Collins St.
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Machine Laundry Café
Hypnotise yourself watching the tumble-dryers spin at this bright, retro-style cafe, where you can wash your dirty clothes while discreetly adding fresh juice, soup or coffee stains to your clean ones.
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Marque IV
High-class dining hits waterfront Hobart at Marque IV, a discreet food room halfway along Elizabeth St Pier. You could start with an 'amuse', but at these prices, it doesn't pay to dally. Begin with a carpaccio of cured Marrawah beef on a warm nicoise salad, followed by caramelised pork belly with Granny Smith dumplings, walnuts and sage gnocchi. Deserts? Sensational. Wine list? Superb. Service and decor lag very slightly behind.
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Mures
Mures and Hobart seafood are synonymous. On the ground level you'll find a fishmonger (selling the Mures fleet's daily catch), a sushi bar, ice-cream parlour and the hectic, family-focused bistro Lower Deck, serving meals for the masses (fish 'n' chips, salmon burgers, crumbed scallops etc). The Upper Deck is a sassier affair, with silvery dockside views and à la carte seafood dishes.
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Nourish
Nourish is a godsend for people with food allergies and intolerances. The menu at this cafe features tasty dishes (curries, salads, stir-fries, risotto, burgers) that are all gluten-free and largely dairy-free too. Vegetarians and vegans are also catered for.
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Rain Check Lounge
A slice of mainland urban cool (straight out of Fitzroy or Darlinghurst), Rain Check's cool Moroccan-hewn room and sidewalk tables see punters sipping coffee, reconstituting over big breakfasts and conversing over impressive Mod Oz dinners.
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Restaurant Gondwana
This corner cook-house has seen a few comings and goings over the years, but Gondwana seems to have put down roots. Discerning Hobartians laud the contemporary Mod Oz menu, which utilises local produce for dishes like roasted rabbit loin, twice-roasted duck and Barilla Bay oysters. Lunch is easier on the wallet; bookings recommended.
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Retro Café
So popular it hurts, funky Retro is ground zero for Saturday brunch among the market stalls. Masterful breakfasts, bagels, salads and burgers interweave with laughing staff, chilled-out jazz and the whir and bang of the coffee machine. A classic Hobart cafe.
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Sals on the Square
Is it a bar? Is it a cafe? Is it a food court with occasional live music? Sals somehow manages to be all of the above. Walk past the Salamanca Place takeaway counter into the wider cafe-bar fronting Salamanca Sq, where pastas, risottos, steaks, burgers and salads rule the roost.
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Sirens
Sirens serves up creative vegetarian and vegan food in a warm, welcoming space, offset by excellent service and impeccable ethics. But it's not all earnest long-hairs stirring lentils - there's some sophisticated cooking going on in the kitchen! Try the three-cheese beetroot ravioli in champagne, dill and pink peppercorn cream.
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South Hobart Food Store
OK, so it's a little way out of the city centre, but any trip to the Food Store will reward the intrepid traveller. It's an old shopfront café full of booths, bookish students, brunching friends and kids under the tables. A mod-rock soundtrack competes with the coffee machine, running at fever pitch.
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Sugo
Tomato-red walls, serious coffee and a menu heavy with Italian influences (pasta, pizza, risotto, panini) make this a perfetto cafe choice. Kudos to the semi-dried tomato and mozzarella scrambled eggs on cornbread. Oz wines by the glass or bottle.
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Tasmania Inn
Once the seediest, sticky-carpet booze room in town, the old Tasmania Inn has been gutted by savvy new Canuck owners who've introduced a good-bang-for-your-buck bar menu, upmarket Mod Oz mains and carefully edited live music. Nice work!
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Undertone
Dig it! Underground Undertone is a hip new record bar/cafe attracting wired-for-sound city workers and students looking for something different. The hip young staff make a mean coffee, and serve a small but tasty section of salads, frittatas, toasted sandwiches, rolls and gluten-free cakes.
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Vanidol's
A pioneering North Hobart restaurant (both in location and cuisine), Vanidol's' simple purple walls belie a complex menu - a creative confluence of Asian-fusion dishes like a beef and vegetables stir-fried in Thai green curry paste with Indian spices. Oodles of vegetarian options; BYO.
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Vietnamese Kitchen
With slick waterfront eateries closing in on all sides, it's refreshing to discover this cheap, kitsch kitchen, with its glowing drinks fridge and plastic-coated photos of steaming soups and stir-fries. Eat in or takeaway.
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