Start from 61 curated places around Hobart, AU, then choose the recommendations that fit your guests.
Restaurants & cafés
Templo
Twenty seats, an open kitchen, and a five-course Italian-leaning set menu that changes weekly — Matt Breen's North Hobart room has been the city's hardest reservation since it opened. House-made pasta, Tasmanian produce, no menu choices, and a wine list that does small Italian growers properly.
Fico
Federica Andrisani and Oskar Rossi's intimate Italian dining room behind Centrepoint — handmade pasta, Tasmanian seafood through an Italian lens, and one of the country's smartest small wine lists. Two-hatted, books fast, worth the planning.
Trails & outdoors
Organ Pipes Track
Traverse path under the dolerite columns of kunanyi/Mt Wellington's eastern face — three kilometres of contour walking under the most photographed cliff in Tasmania. Connects the Chalet to The Springs without the summit climb.
Pinnacle Track
The summit walking route up kunanyi/Mt Wellington from The Springs — 1.3km vertical kilometre to the 1271m summit through boulder fields and stunted snow gums. The serious walker's alternative to driving up.
Things to do
MONA — Museum of Old and New Art
David Walsh's underground sandstone museum on the Berriedale peninsula — three subterranean levels carved into the cliff, a world-class private collection of antiquities and provocations, and the reason a lot of Hobart visits exist. Reach it by purpose-built ferry from Brooke Street Pier.
Theatre Royal
Australia's oldest continuously operating theatre, 1837 — a small Georgian-Victorian playhouse on Campbell Street with steeply raked seats and a year-round program of drama, opera, and the touring acts. Beautiful inside in a way the outside doesn't tell you.
Landmarks & sights
Salamanca Market
Hobart's defining Saturday ritual — three hundred stalls of Tasmanian produce, leatherwood honey, woodturning, and oysters running the length of the sandstone Georgian warehouses on Salamanca Place. Locals do laps with a coffee; visitors leave with truffle salt and a wooden chopping board.
Battery Point
Hobart's oldest residential quarter — narrow lanes of weatherboard cottages, sandstone walls, and the village green at Arthur Circus where 1840s sailors' houses still face each other across a circular garden. Best explored on foot from Salamanca up Kelly's Steps.