CAFES - HOBART + SURROUNDSThis list began as a humble handful, but the more we explored the more we couldn't help but add to the list. Each one has still been carefully handpicked and you can't go wrong grabbing a coffee from any. You'll find plenty in the heart of Hobart and a good selection of fantastic cafes just out of town. Enjoy the search!
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BEACH BUMS
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Beach Bums is your perfect stop for fresh, healthy smoothie options, Single O coffee and fresh Tasmanian fish and chips. Or drop in for a Van Diemen's ice cream and wander down to Park Beach to watch the locals surf.
136 Carlton Beach Road, Dodges Ferry beachbumstassie.com.au [email protected] |
ERDA
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A cosy neighbourhood café on the outskirts of Hobart CBD. Whether you're craving a classic breakfast or diverse, tasty food, here you’ll find a convenient brunch spot. If you get the chance, try their omurice: tomato fried rice with soft scrambled egg topped with rich demi-glace sauce – a perfect comfort food for breakfast or lunch. You’re sure to be pleased. Coffee is their specialty, too.
167a Harrington Street, Hobart erda.com.au |
ESTEEM COFFEE
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Esteem Coffee's mission is to uplift and empower Tasmania's diverse local community through a blend of culture, creativity and caffeine. The team hosts a wonderful mix of colours and cultures, from Eritrean to Colombian, Afghan and Ukrainian. Exceptional barista-made coffee is prepared and served by Esteem's lovely volunteers. Founder Kelvin helps migrants and people with a refugee background complete a barista course, building their skills and work experience so that they ultimately can get a job and better integrate into society. Esteem is a place where Hobart can meet and celebrate the rest of the world.
286 Elizabeth Street, North Hobart esteem.coffee [email protected] |
FARZI
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This culinary delight is tucked beneath Salamanca Wharf Hotel on Hobart’s waterfront. At Farzi, the flavours are bold and vibrant. A menu that shifts with the seasons delivers the finest local ingredients served up with a Farzi feel – such as Not Your Average Avo Toast, complete with avocado, feta, pomegranate, radish, dukkah, beetroot purée and poached eggs. Drop in for an alfresco brunch with specialty coffee or spend the evening at Farzi’s. Come nightfall, share plates flow with plenty of vegan and gluten-free options. The five-course Chef’s Menu is a gastronomic celebration, ranging from smoked butter chicken to delicate kingfish ceviche. With ‘Feed Me’ multi-course menus, Farzi moves from modern Australian by day to neo Indian by night.
17A Castray Esplanade, Battery Point, Visit their website or call 0401 091 055 |
FRANK’S CIDER HOUSE & CAFÉ
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Frank’s Cider House & Café is a family-run business in the historic town of Franklin, 35 minutes south of Hobart. It is the cellar door for Frank’s multi-award-winning sparkling ciders. The 1870s former church hall is now a cosy café which serves country-style Huon Valley cuisine. The menu complements the crisp, fruity ciders, created from 100% Tasmanian apples, pears, cherries and raspberries. Wander into the museum room and discover the history of the Apple Isle’s fruit-growing past while you enjoy a Frank’s!
3328 Huon Highway, Franklin Visit their Website (03) 6266 3828 Open 7 days 10.00am – 5.00pm (check Facebook) |
GROUNDSMAN ESPRESSO
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Sitting discreetly just off Percy Street in the quaint quayside suburb of Bellerive, this little espresso bar has firmly established itself as a local institution. Premium Zimmah coffee roasted a stone’s throw away in Hobart’s CBD is delivered with passion and pace by the finely tuned crew, ensuring you’ve always got time to grab one on the go. Catch up with friends around the bespoke communal table or the milk crates and grab a bite to eat from their carefully curated selection of sweet and savoury provisions. Pastries and slices are delivered daily from a handful of Hobart’s artisan bakers, while in house the team prepares a simple and delicious rotation of toasted fare.
Shop 13/31 Cambridge Road, Bellerive (enter via Percy Street) Roller door is up 7am–2.30pm Monday to Friday, Saturday 8am–11.30am Find them on Instagram and Facebook |
HAMLET HOBART CAFÉ
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Hamlet is a registered charity that exists to empower people who are underrepresented in the workforce. They provide training opportunities and tailored wrap-around support to people facing barriers to employment, with a focus on people living with disability. Hamlet operates a number of social enterprises including a café, a catering and condiments business, as well as a food relief project supplying 200 meals each week to Hobart City Mission. They deliver hands-on training and work readiness skills to volunteer participants, to improve their chances of securing employment. To date they have provided over 40,000 hours of training to more than 700 people in our community.
40 Molle Street, Hobart hamlet.org.au Open Monday – Friday 7.30am – 2.30pm |
HAPPY LARRY – SANDWICH DELI
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Love a good sandwich? Happy Larry has redefined the sandwich experience in our capital city. Located in the heart of Hobart's CBD, Happy Larry is the sister venue to much-loved Farzi Café in Salamanca/Battery Point. With a focus on fresh local produce, Happy Larry showcases the team's unique take on sandwiches that are bold on flavour.
Apart from sandwiches there’s a terrific range of specialty coffees, sourced from Single O. Whether you're after a good coffee or a beautifully crafted sandwich, let Happy Larry deliver a fresh twist on the everyday. 59–63 Liverpool Street, Hobart (behind ANZ bank) |
HEARTH CAFE AND RESTAURANT
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Tucked away up behind the main Salamanca strip is Hearth, a great spot for pizza with friends on the patio or beneath the verandah. Hearth is relaxed, with a welcoming family friendly vibe and crackling fires that are extra inviting across the winter months. Drop in for great coffee, all the Aussie breakfast faves, or book a table for dinner and catch some live tunes. The affordable menu shifts with the seasons and keeps the locals returning to Hearth. Chef Jay makes a cracking pasta, plus there’s the latest seafood catch, tender beef cheeks and more. Check out the pizza, the secret to which is the dough – that’s even before it’s topped with fresh Tasmanian goodness.
37 Montpelier Retreat, Battery Point hearthpizza.com.au Call (03) 6223 2511 or Email: [email protected] |
HILL STREET GROCER
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There’s a reason the locals shop at Hill Street Grocer – they truly do bring happiness through great food. The freshest of Tassie produce is meticulously presented, from neat rows of heirloom tomatoes to plump fresh berries straight from the farmer’s patch. This award-winning Tassie grocer began as a humble store in, of course, Hill Street in West Hobart. Forever bustling, the tiny store has grown to new locations across the island. You’ll find stores in New Town, Sandy Bay, South Hobart, Blackmans Bay, Devonport, Dodges Ferry, Latrobe, Lauderdale, Longford, and the original in West Hobart. Whether it’s recipes, grand hampers, handmade chocolates or a quick pre-dinner shop, Hill Street has reinvented the grocery shopping experience. Fine, fresh and deliciously friendly.
hillstreetgrocer.com (03) 6234 3384 |
LITTLE AMSTERDAM
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Little Amsterdam serves the highest grade of specialty coffee in a vibrant and relaxed setting. The crew have been working in coffee for over 20 years and have found their own unique space, located somewhere in the middle of passion, science, humour and fun. Their menu includes ASCA award-winning espresso from Zest Specialty Roasters, Cold Brew and Pour-over Singles. You’ll find the finest patisserie goods from around Tasmania, and their kitchen is home to the infamous Davey Street Garage Toastie Menu. Bordering Battery Point and Hobart’s CBD, this unsurpassable café is colourful and inviting. Stay for breakfast or lunch or grab a quick takeaway on the go. Parking is available streetside.
40 Sandy Bay Road, Battery Point |
LOST FREIGHT
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The Lost Freight is a unique shipping-container café and information point located halfway up kunanyi / Mount Wellington. At the doorstep to the wilderness but also a stone's throw from Hobart, it is tucked into a canopy of native bush and within easy reach of multiple tracks and the mountain's summit. With Single O coffee and a range of hot and cold drinks, locally sourced pies, sweet treats and fresh wraps, this little boutique café is staffed by friendly baristas who are also knowledgeable in the Wellington Park area. Where better could freight become 'lost' than amongst some of the best trails and view vantage points in Tasmania?
Find Lost Freight on Pinnacle Road, The Springs, Mount Wellington Open Mon – Fri 9.00am – 3.30pm, weekends 8.30am – 4.00pm Facebook | Email |
PIGEON WHOLE BAKERS
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Pigeon Whole Bakers opened in Hobart in 2011 with a simple goal of baking fresh sourdough bread daily. Built from a single loaf, the bakery quickly became known for its devotion to bread, and is now an independent business of over 60 employees across three sites, supplying wholesale and retail customers all over the island on a basis. The team is a diverse and multidisciplinary group of people working together doing what they love: delivering the best possible products and experience for their customers, with a focus on ingredients, quality and taste. For Pigeon Whole Bakers, their people matter. They strive to support each other's continuous learning and growth by sharing and celebrating knowledge, stories and traditions from all over the world, working together to deliver the very best quality goods to their community.
24–32 Argyle Street, Hobart pigeonwholebakers.com.au |
POLLEN MAKERY
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Pollen Makery creates nourishing, wholesome, plant-based celebration cakes. Naturally crafted, every cake is full of ingredients closest to their natural form and free from artificial preservatives, dairy, gluten and refined sugar. Pollen Makery thinks you should have your cake and eat it too! Guilt free. You can also find their cakes at some of Tasmania’s best cafés and wholefoods stores.
pollenmakery.com.au [email protected] |
THE LITTLE POET PATISSERIE
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Little Poet is all about the pause. This is where poetry and plant-based goodness meet. It’s home to the city’s only vegan high tea and is a place to experience mountain tea straight from the hands of Taiwanese farmers. The interior spells calm, with its quiet lines of poetry on the wall, carefully selected books and streams of natural light from the tall front windows.
6 Victoria Street, Hobart thelittlepoet.com 0484 397 822 [email protected] Monday – Friday 7.30am – 3.00pm Saturday 8.00am – 3.00pm |
THE OLD BANK OF GEEVESTON
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The Old Bank of Geeveston is a small bistro/café producing small batches of hand-crafted artisan pastries and cooking rustic food. They source mostly local grower roadside stalls, foraged and homegrown produce. They use what’s around, whether it’s given as excess produce by a local farmer or simply that it happens to be in season. It’s about using natural ingredients and fewer artificial or processed goods. The Old Bank’s main focus is the complexity of the taste, redefining the integrity of the food with their own little details and evolving organically without restraint. The layering, complexity and use of good-quality ingredients is reflected in the end product.
Visit them at 13 Church Street, Geeveston or call (03) 6297 9922 Open 10am – 3pm Tuesday to Saturday Find them on Facebook |
THE SIGNAL STATION
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At The Signal Station they say 'come for the view and stay for the food’. Few Tasmanian restaurants boast a more spectacular outlook. When it's paired with the skills of an award-winning French patisserie chef, things become ever more delightful. Owner Robbie McLean and the team serve up a Tasmanian dining experience packed with seasonal flavour and delivered with a 180-degree view across the city of Hobart to the Tasman Peninsula, D’Entrecasteaux Channel and beyond. Whether it's for an afternoon watermelon cheesecake or a lazy Sunday lunch on the patio, take your time atop Mount Nelson. The Signal Station is an impressive heritage site sharing insights of signal communication from Mount Nelson to Port Arthur – something to ponder over afternoon tea.
700 Nelson Road, Mount Nelson thesignalstation.com.au |
THYLACINE COFFEE
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The folk at Thylacine Coffee love the beautiful island state they call home. Since humble beginnings in 2012, their
coffee has become not only a local treasure but a beloved discovery for people from all corners of the globe. The team invites you to taste Tasmania, one sip at a time, with three signature blends dedicated to local icons: the gold label, inspired by Port Arthur, the red label, paying tribute to Salamanca, and the green label, which celebrates the beauty of kunanyi / Mount Wellington. You’ll find them online and on Saturdays at Salamanca. Salamanca Market, Hobart thylacinecoffee.com.au [email protected] |
VILLINO COFFEE ROASTERS
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Villino is a Tasmanian specialty coffee roaster and retailer dedicated to sourcing and supplying quality coffee and brewing good times. They roast all of their coffee fresh daily at their roastery in Moonah, and operate three venues across Hobart: Villino Coffee, Ecru, and Wondr. The original venue opened in 2007, nestled on beautiful Criterion Street in the Hobart CBD. Whichever of Villino’s venues you find yourself in, you'll experience the best of what specialty coffee can be.
Villino Coffee 30 Criterion Street, Hobart villino.com.au |
WATERFALLS CAFÉ & GALLERY
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Nestled in Mt Field National Park, Waterfalls Café & Gallery has to be one of Tassie’s most gloriously set eateries. Not only is Mt Field Tasmania’s oldest national park, alongside Freycinet, it is also one of the most diverse. It’s home to some of the planet’s tallest eucalypts as well as some epic alpine vegetation, from pandanis and pencil pines, found only in Tasmania, to gorgeous highland tarns. Then there’s the thundering waterfalls including famed Russell Falls just a short walk from the café. All this, about 70 minutes from Hobart. Don’t forget, Mt Field is one of the best places for fagus (the deciduous beech) that delivers a riot of colour across the Tarn Shelf during autumn. Golds, reds and fiery oranges blanket the hillsides, while in winter, Mount Mawson ski field is often dusted with snow.
90 Lake Dobson Road, Mount Field waterfallscafe.com.au | (03) 6288 1526 | [email protected] |
WHISK & CO - LENAH VALLEY
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At Whisk & Co, passion and perfection runs through everything they do, from their coffee to the modern Australian inspired menu. The friendly buzz and exceptional seasonal menus capture Lenah Valley locals and passers-by alike, sometimes for hours at a time. Whether you pop in for a takeaway coffee, or breakfast, or enjoy a long lingering lunch, the Whisk & Co team will always be happy to look after you.
Visit Whisky & Co at 102 Augusta Road, Lenah Valley |
WIDE AWAKE SPECIALTY COFFEE & AGENT COOPER COFFEE
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All ideas start from a conversation; Wide Awake celebrates Elrick and Clare's love for coffee. It's a continuation of what was created a few years back at their original Sandy Bay café, Sash. Today, Wide Awake is nestled in North Hobart and Agent Cooper in Glenorchy. Both are well loved for their great coffee and cheery vibes.
Wide Awake Specialty Coffee 271 Elizabeth Street, North Hobart Agent Cooper Coffee 390A Main Road, Glenorchy |
ZIMMAH COFFEE - CENTRAL HOBART
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Zimmah Coffee is a locally-owned boutique coffee roaster located in Murray Street. Every day of the working week, Zimmah roasts high-grade coffees in a building that has been converted into a hip- café-come-roasting warehouse. There are book columns, comfy couches, roasters cranking, and of course, delicious coffee. Stop in for lunch down the laneway and try a single origin or the Tattooed Nun blend, a rich coffee with buttery caramel flavours.
Find Zimmah at 219b Murray Street and on Facebook |