Tasmania’s Top Five Regional Restaurants to Visit this Summer 2025
Published 27 November 2024
There’s no denying that Tasmania is the home to world renowned wine, whisky, beer and, most importantly, food. Offering not only a smorgasbord selection of seafood, but it’s packed with plenty of outstanding producers and farmers too.
So where can you find all of this?
Plotted around the state, foodies will be able to find a heap of regional restaurants that go above and beyond. Whether they’re a farm-based restaurant and cooking school, a castle-like estate, hatted restaurant, a resident at a winery, or, a small-scale country eatery, there’s a surprising selection to choose from.
And in this list you’ll find exactly all of that: the best regional restaurants in Tasmania. Happy eating!
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If you follow along the banks of the River Derwent, just 40 minutes out from Hobart you’ll find a three in one delight. Welcome to The Agrarian Kitchen – Tasmania’s first sustainable farm-based restaurant, food store and cooking school. Open from Friday to Sunday, here, thanks to head chef Stephen Peak, over 90 per cent of produce used on the ever-changing menu is sourced from the site. With a set lunch menu, visitors can expect the likes of Smoked Beef Sausage, Polenta with mushroom and alpine cheese, and Parsnip Miso Caramel to name a few.Read more -
Twenty minutes from Hobart will land you at Villa Howden – a European inspired castle-like estate. With meticulously manicured gardens, picturesque views and boutique accommodation, you probably thought that it couldn’t get much better. But, what if we told you that this is also the home to one of the best regional restaurants in Tasmania? Welcome to Bruni’s Restaurant! Open for dinner every Wednesday to Saturday, guests can expect nothing short of an opulent experience. Better yet, High Tea is also available to book on Saturday’s.Read more -
If you’re looking for a quick day trip or weekend getaway to a wine region, the Huon Valley, just 30 minutes out of Hobart, is the perfect solution. And, this cool climate area, wouldn’t be complete without Home Hill Winery. Their onsite eatery of the same name is one of our favourite regional restaurants in Tasmania. Not only is it for their award-winning wines and delicious food on offer, but it’s for the sweeping, jaw dropping views of Mount Wellington too.Read more -
If you’re travelling to Launceston this summer, be sure to add one of our favourite regional restaurants to your itinerary: Stillwater. Overlooking the Tamar River, Stillwater Restaurant is set in a restored flour mill from the 1830s. Today, this seasonally changing eatery makes headlines for its passion towards local farmers and producers. Promising a dining experience like no other, Stillwater’s summer menu includes the likes of Black Lip Abalone, Cape Grim Beef Tartare, Blackened Asparagus and Torched Blueberry Marshmallow Meringue to name a few.Read more -
Tucked graciously away in the rolling hills of Marion Bay on the east coast is one of the best regional restaurants in Tasmania, Van Bone. Self-described as a small-scale country restaurant, Van Bone offers an intimate dining experience which, alongside the fantastic food, has gone on to make them one of the hardest eateries for foodies to land a booking at. With head chef Timothy Hardy leading the way, Van Bone serves up to 14 courses that highlights local small scale organic farmers.Read more
