Island Time

- Tasmania -
Find your appetite for adventure on the Apple Isle.

Cross the Tasman Sea and there’s a bevy of gourmet food and wine waiting to be discovered in Tasmania. If you’re headed for Hobart, Landscape Restaurant & Grill is a premium offering located on Hunter Street, in the city’s waterfront precinct. Dishes are served with a slice of history, surrounded by John Glover’s iconic 19th-century landscape paintings of Tasmania.

Head further into the CBD on Elizabeth Street and you’ll find sumptuous steaks at Roaring Grill. The restaurant proudly sources its meat from Tasmania, getting its beef and lamb from the Cape Grim region on the North West Coast, and its grass-fed wagyu beef from Robbins Island. Also on Elizabeth Street is Japanese restaurant Bar Wa Izakaya, which fuses local ingredients with more traditional Japanese flavours, and offers an impressive line-up of sake and umeshu plum liqueur.

If you’d like to explore outside the city, drive north through picturesque countryside to Launceston, about two-and-a-half hours outside of Hobart. Here you’ll find Rupert & Hound, with a fresh sustainably sourced selection of seafoord including Tasmaniam oysters and scallops, and Atlantic salmon.

Cataract on Paterson is another Launceston highlight, with a restaurant, bar and private dining room. Its known for its stonegrill cooking technique and meals can be cooked on a 400*C volcanic stone at your table, with the high temperatures helping to seal in all the natural juices and flavours.

Continue further noth from Launceston to the Jansz Wine Room and sample some of the regions best sparkling. Established in the mid-1980’s, the Jansz vineyard makes its top drops using the traditional French Methode Champenoise.

Then, perched on the north-east coast of Tasmania is Barnbougle. There are two striking golf courses you can play here, carved from the natural contours of the coastal land, before retiring to on of three venues - Lost Farm Restaurant, Lost Farm Sports Bar or The Dunes Clubhouse. From the city to the coast, Tasmania offers no shortage of unique cullinary experiences.