Hobart
With exposed bricks, timber beams and distressed walls, L-shaped Pilgrim is Hobart's hippest cafe. Expect wraps, panini and interesting mains (try the…
Must-see restaurants in Tasmania
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Tasmania
Head upstairs at the surf lifesaving club at Bluff Beach for fine food with an equally fine beach view. The ambitious menu cherry-picks highlights from…
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Tasmania
This hipsterish cafe is housed in a handsome decommissioned chapel and the quality of the food certainly matches the surrounds. The best cafe in Burnie …
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The Southeast
Head to the side courtyard of this tucked-away treasure, on a street corner in Ranelagh a few kilometres out of Huonville, for a wide-ranging selection of…
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Tasmania
The flagship of the Providore Place complex is this glass-walled restaurant from (and named after the children of) TV celebrity chef Ben Milbourne. Select…
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Hobart
Boldly claiming itself as Hobart's top restaurant, angular Aløft occupies a lofty eyrie atop the floating Brooke St Pier. Menu hits include silken tofu…
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Hobart
Make sure you stop by this enduring Hobart favourite, even if it’s just to gawk at the display cabinet full of delectable pies, tarts, baguettes and…
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Tasmania
Towns on Tasmania's northwest coast are known for their cafe culture, and there are plenty of stylish examples where you can enjoy great food and a well…
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Tasmanian Food & Wine Conservatory
Tasmania
With the laudable aim of showcasing Tasmanian food and wine – especially from boutique and small producers – this stylishly converted conservatory 15km…
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The Southeast
What a surprise! Tasmania's best sushi – including fresh Tasmanian wasabi – is in sleepy Geeveston. Opening hours are disappointingly limited (and he…
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Tasmania
Country Chinese restaurants never used to be as good as this unassuming treasure. T's delivers a full paddock-to-plate experience, with the free-range…
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Hobart
Unpretentious little Templo, on a nondescript reach of Patrick St, is a Hobart dining treasure. With only 20 seats (bookings essential), most of them…
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Launceston
Arrive early and begin with an aperitivo at the bar of Launceston’s most savvy restaurant. There's an up-to-the-moment menu of shared plates, wood-fired…
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Cradle Country & The West
A focus on local produce, including Petuna salmon, Spring Bay scallops and Sassafras steak, is the defining feature of the menu at Strahan's best…
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Tasmania
The sleek and ultra-stylish Victoria Arduino espresso machine at this cute cafe in the post office building is put to good use producing coffees to…
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The East Coast
This expertly managed outfit does Italian staples much better than most – homemade pasta, wood-fired pizzas and arancini for example, with the occasional…
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Tasmania
Well, here's an unexpected treat. Located at the entrance to the tourist park on the eastern edge of town, Splash serves delicious food and excellent…
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The Southeast
The tame old Ranelagh General Store has been reborn as an inventive burger bar. Furnished like your great-grandparents' farmhouse, its burgers rely on…
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Hobart
This perennially popular and well-run cafe presents a wide-ranging menu, including a house crumpet with raspberry mascarpone and lemon curd, a black…
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Tasmania
Cafes at popular tourist attractions are often substandard, but that's decidedly not the case here. Stanley's best eatery by a long shot, the Nut Café…
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The Southeast
The journey hasn't been as smooth as velvet for this hippy-happy cafe – it burned down in 2014 – but its reincarnation as a vegetarian and vegan eatery is…
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The East Coast
We’re likin’ what they’re doing here – good coffee, casual days that slide into fine-dining evenings, leisurely weekend breakfasts and locally caught fish…
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The East Coast
On the Dolphin Sands sand spit, about 16km from Swansea (and well signposted from the highway north of town), Melshell is a quirky caravan on a working…
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The Southeast
With cool decor, foodie magazines and a bewildering number of specials boards, this Post Office delivers excellent wood-fired pizzas (try the scallop,…
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Hobart
So popular it hurts, funky Retro is ground zero for Saturday brunch among the market stalls (or any day, really). Masterful breakfasts, bagels, salads and…
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Launceston
Bryher's super-appealing 1920s stained-glass shopfront and well-loved floorboards set the scene for a rootsy, meaty menu. The baked giant beans, black…
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Hobart
There are four floating fish punts moored in Constitution Dock, selling fresh-caught seafood either uncooked or cooked. Our pick is Flippers, an enduring…
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The Southeast
Just south of Woodbridge at Birchs Bay, hidden up a winding dirt track, Pepperberries is a sophisticated little glass-fronted cafe in the trees. Utilising…
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Hobart
This old petrol-station building has been reworked as an earthy cafe, with a quirky retro interior, staff dancing in the kitchen and herbs growing in…
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Hobart
Stepping into this brilliant little coffee-and-bagel joint, run by a chipper Minnesotan who ended up in Hobart accidentally, is like waking into an old…
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The East Coast
Super-popular Freycinet Marine Farm grows huge, succulent oysters in the waters around Coles Bay, while its farm-gate cafe also dishes up fish and chips,…
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Hobart
Aiming for a future-Asian Bladerunner look, this good-looking good guy is a hawker-style restaurant revolving around a central bar, on the ground floor of…
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Launceston
The much-awarded Stillwater, inside a historic flour mill on the Tamar (parts of which date back to 1832), has long been at the top of Launceston’s dining…
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Tasmania
On fine days, the windows at this retro-laminex cafe pull back and you can eyeball the Big Penguin across the road. Its quirky vibe and the tasty menu,…
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The East Coast
With a broad deck, an eclectic scatter of tables and chairs, and a crochet-clad tree out the front, this cafe on the main drag is a real gem. Sidle in for…
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Hobart
It's worth driving a few kilometres over the headland from Kingston to the sunny terrace of this angular cafe-bar on Blackmans Bay beach. Wood-fired…
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The East Coast
An unexpected find in a little country town, this chipper wholefoods cafe serves excellent homemade soups, burgers, pasties, vegetarian wraps, fabulous…
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Hobart
This compact bakery-cafe is the kind of place every inner-city neighbourhood should have. The love child of a family farm at Hobart’s edge, its menu is…
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Hobart
Boasting big beefy burgers, a little outdoor terrace, craft beers and ciders, and a view that combines a concrete car park with the moody hues of kunanyi…
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Launceston
Go to the source (or the butter, in this case) in this cavernous new cafe inside a former motorcycle warehouse turned butter factory. With its black walls…
