Restaurants in Hobart
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Mures
Mures is the name in Hobart seafood with its own fishing fleet serving this restaurant as well as local markets. On the ground level is the fishmonger, a sushi bar, an ice-cream parlour and the hectic, family-focused bistro Lower Deck (mains $7 to $13), serving fish and chips and salmon burgers to the masses. The Upper Deck (mains $20 to $28) is a sassier affair, with expansive dockside views and à la carte seafood dishes.
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Jackman & McRoss
Apologies to every other Hobart cafe, bakery and pastry chef, but this is the best cafe experience in Hobart and perhaps all of Tasmania. Pick from the delicious menu or the display cabinet 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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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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Annapurna
Ever-popular Annapurna consistently rates among Hobartians’ fave eateries (bookings advised). Northern and southern Indian options are served with absolute proficiency – Tassie’s best Indian food! The masala dosa (south Indian crepe filled with curried potato) is a crowd favourite. BYO, and takeaway available. Also at 93 Salamanca Pl.
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Onba
Quirky Onba is a bit of everything – brilliant breakfast cafe, great lunchtime cook-house and happenin’ evening tapas and wine bar. Local art adorns the walls and food-art is done in the kitchen. Buy a coffee (or anything) and get 30 minutes complimentary wi-fi.
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Retro Café
Funky Retro is ground zero for Saturday brunch among the market stalls. Masterful breakfasts, bagels, salads and burgers mix it with laughing staff, chilled-out jazz and the whir and bang of the coffee machine in a riot of good vibes.
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South Hobart Food Store
A little way out of the city centre – sure – but a trip to the Food Store is well worth the effort. This old shopfront cafe is full of booths, bookish students, brunching friends and kids under the tables.
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Sirens
Sirens is Hobart’s best vegetarian restaurant and does creative cuisine that’s much more than just tofu and lentils – try the three-cheese beetroot ravioli in champagne, dill and pink peppercorn cream. The service is excellent and the space is warm, welcoming and full of exotic aromas and happy diners.
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Marque IV
High-class dining hits waterfront Hobart at Marque IV, a discreet dining room halfway along Elizabeth St Pier. You could start with an ‘amuse’, but at these prices, it doesn’t pay to dally. Perhaps begin with Spring Bay baby abalone ceviche with picked zucchini and zucchini flowers ($28). And then maybe an ocean trout nicoise with pink eye potatoes, beans, olives, fresh white anchovies and salsa verde ($38). Desserts? Superb. Wine list? Select. Service and decor? Sufficient.
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Fish Frenzy
This casual place at a great location on Elizabeth Pier has a slightly upmarket take on the humble fish and chip, and keeps bringing us back for its waterfront outdoor tables, seafood platters, fishy salads (spicy calamari, smoked salmon and brie), wine by the glass and perky service. The eponymous ‘Fish Frenzy’ ($16) delivers a bit of everything. It’s ridiculously popular, but doesn’t take bookings.
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Piccalilly
This historic corner site has seen lots of comings and goings, but it’s now home to super-swish Piccalilly. Creative dishes like cannelloni of braised lamb shoulder with mushroom bolognese, and King George whiting with sauce vierge and citrus jellyfish are just part of what’s on offer.
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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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Jam Packed
This trendy cafe inside the brilliant redeveloped IXL Jam Factory atrium next to the Henry Jones Art Hotel is jam-packed at breakfast time. The BLT is the perfect hangover salve and the prawn spaghetti puttanesca, simmered in olive oil, tomato and caper sauce, makes a filling lunch.
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La Cuisine
With Basque house cakes, stuffed sourdough rolls, juicy quiches and sensational salads, La Cuisine dragged the city out of the white-bread culinary quicksand when it opened in the mid-80s – no one in Hobart had seen a croissant before. Also at 108 Collins St ( [tel] 03-6224 2587).
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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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Restaurant 373
Inhabiting a lovely old shopfront, Restaurant 373 is an artsy, high-end eatery with wide floorboards and splashes of dark red paint and white linen. The young owners give local produce a Mod Oz twist. Excellent service; brilliant wine list and desserts. One of Hobart’s best.
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Machine Laundry Café
Is it a cafe or a laundrette? Wash a load ($5) of clothes in this bright retro-style cafe and make a mess of the ones you’re wearing slurping your soup and sipping your coffee. The food is first class and the tumble-dryers are strangely soothing and hypnotic.
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Flippers Fish Punt
Flippers Fish Punt, with its voluptuous fish-shaped profile and sea-blue exterior, has been floating at Constitution Dock for as long as anyone can remember. Fillets of flathead and curls of calamari – straight from the deep blue sea and into the deep fryer.
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Sals on the Square
Part bar, part restaurant and occasional live-music venue, Sals has a takeaway counter on Salamanca Place and a huge prime possie on Salamanca Sq, where the real serious eating gets done. Pastas, risottos, steaks, burgers and salads rule the roost.
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Magic Curries
The Indian cricket team eats here when they’re in town, so the food gets the stamp of approval. Try a Kingfisher beer and an Indian curry (from aromatic and mild to face-meltingly hot). Excellent vegetarian options and takeaway available.
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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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Vietnamese Kitchen
This cheap, kitsch Viet canteen, with its glowing drinks fridge and plastic-coated photos of steaming soups and stir-fries, is refreshingly utilitarian among Salamanca’s super-cool bars and slick eateries. Eat in or takeaway.
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Raincheck Lounge
This could be Darlinghurst or Fitzroy – 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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Ciuccio
Formerly Sugo, Ciuccio continues the theme of serious coffee and a menu with Italian leanings (pasta, pizza, risotto, panini) – an excellent all-rounder. Licensed Ciuccio is popular for drinks, too.
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