6 Best Cheap Food Joints of Hobart
Hobart is probably Australia’s smallest capital city, which has of late emerged as one of the country’s finest and most amazing dining destinations. Flavors here are inspired by the surrounding sea and Tasmania‘s exquisite regional produce, offering a variety of tastes that transition between international and uniquely Tasmanian. The prime dining center includes the city docks, Salamanca and North Hobart, but there are some reasonably priced cafés and restaurants available all over the city and its inner suburbs.
Here are the top 6 Cheap Eateries of Hobart!
1. Machine Laundry Cafe
Sandwiched in a corner of restaurant-heavy Salamanca Square, it is an ever-popular café serving up fresh food… and fresh clothes. Although, it appears to be an unusual combination, this Hobart laundrette, Machine Laundry Cafe, is a food junction that has been serving witty, inventive breakfast dishes to a crowd of fans. You will find the egg and bacon standards with innovative dishes like wonderful parmesan, spinach pancakes, caramelized onion and the Mental Lentil, which is a pide roll with spiced vegetable and lentil pattie and salad.
2. Cafè Lola
Mostly healthy eating doesn’t always come cheap, but colorful Cafe Lola offers both fresh and frugal. Located just a few steps from the docks in the red Marine Board building, this smart little eatery is known for its fresh local produce and clean-eating ethics. The menu of this paleo-inspired café includes Lola’s paleo pods, which blend the likes of grilled polenta with Tasmanian salmon. You can add a smoothie like the choc mocha antioxidant, and you’re bound to be energized for rest of your day.
3. Mure Lower Deck
Situated in a commanding centre stage on Hobart’s docks, Mure Lower Deck is the bottle-green seafood restaurant, containing two very different dining experiences. The Upper Deck is served as a fine-dining seafood restaurant and the bustling Lower Deck bistro offers a more casual way to get a taste of the Tasmanian sea. All the fish here prepared is caught by Mures’ own boat, and the signature seafood chowder is just amazing and famous. It is also known for Tasmanian scallops or oysters freshly shucked at the Lower Deck’s fishmonger counter.
4. Flippers
Flippers is one of four floating fish punts lining the docks of Wharf, the fish-shaped Flippers offers an exotic Hobart experience. You can sit on the steps of the docks eating fish and chips watching the city’s fishing fleet. Grab a classic fish and chips, or take a tour of the sea with a fisherman’s basket of fresh scallops, fish, crab sticks, calamari and prawn cutlets.
5. Jackman & McRoss
The historic inner city area of Battery Point is known for its classic Hobart bakery. Located just a short walk up the hill from Salamanca Place, Jackman & McRoss‘s wide windows are as beautiful and inviting as the pastries and other baked articles that fill its glass cabinets. You should try the breakfast panini filled with scrambled tomato, eggs, bacon, and avocado. You can also have a Tasmanian taste with one of its scallop pies. Grab a footpath table, if you are lucky, so that you can eat with a view of kunanyi (Mount Wellington).
6. Ginger Brown
Located in a small shopping strip in South Hobart, which is two kilometres (1.2 miles) from the city centre, Ginger Brown ‘s convince you in all means why it’s a local favorite. The breezy energy is matched by inventive dishes like fried halloumi, beetroot, orange, and baby spinach salad. It can be the best lunchtime destination for many.
Synopsis
There is no dearth of cheap yet tasty and quality food in Hobart coupled with the unique taste of Tasmania produce and the local vibe. So if you happen to visit this city, do not forget to visit these cheap food joints to satiate your taste buds. There are many more things to do for fun and adventure in and around Australia.