Hobart Restaurants

  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. 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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  9. 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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