Stylish waterfront T-42° makes a big splash with its food (mains $18 to $32), but also draws well-dressed, late-week barflies with its minimalist interior, spinnaker-shaped bar and ambient tunes. If you stay out late enough on Friday or Saturday night, breakfast offers redemption from your nocturnal misdemeanours.


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Nearby Hobart attractions

1. Waterfront

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Hobartians flock to the city’s waterfront like seagulls to chips. Centred on Victoria Dock (a working fishing harbour) and Constitution Dock (full of…

2. Mawson’s Huts Replica Museum

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This excellent waterfront installation is a model of one of the huts in which Sir Douglas Mawson's Australasian Antarctic Expedition team, which set sail…

3. Maritime Museum of Tasmania

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Highlighting shipwrecks, boat building, whaling and Hobart’s unbreakable bond with the sea, the Maritime Museum of Tasmania (out the back of the town hall…

4. Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery

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Incorporating Tasmania's oldest surviving public building, the Commissariat Store (1808), TMAG features Aboriginal and colonial relics and an excellent…

5. Town Hall

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Duck your head into the fabulously lavish lobby of Hobart's stately Town Hall. It was built in 1864–66 in a style based on Rome’s famous Palazzo Farnese…

6. Franklin Square

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Encircling a statue of Sir John Franklin, Lieutenant-Governor of Van Diemen's Land (aka Tasmania) from 1837–43, Franklin Sq is one of central Hobart's…

7. Salamanca Arts Centre

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The nonprofit Salamanca Arts Centre has been here since 1977 and occupies seven Salamanca warehouses. It's home to dozens of arts organisations and…

8. Parliament House

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Presiding over an oak-studded park adjacent to Salamanca Pl, Tasmania’s sandstone Parliament House (1840) was originally a customs house. There’s a tunnel…