FROM THE EDITOR

When anyone I know is coming to Hobart, they send me an email. “Where should I eat?” In celebration of our annual food and drink issue, here’s the list I send my friends...

1. Peppina – part of luxury hotel The Tasman – is the restaurant Hobart didn’t know it needed. Order Massimo Mele’s exquisite pasta and ask Michael “Fish” Fisher for his spot-on wine recommendations.

2. Institut Polaire is a gorgeous wine bar that offers innovative bites alongside Domaine Simha wines and Süd Polaire gin.

3. Templo sits just 25 and features a six-course menu, lo-fi wines and a neighbourhood feel.

4. I haven’t yet made it to Dier Makr, although I love its wine bar, Lucinda. Friends rave about its contemporary tasting menu.

5. Fico is fine dining at its finest, with a cracking wine experience to match. Sundays are more casual, with a short à la carte menu.

6. For views and local produce cooked with heart, book ahead for Aloft, on Brooke Street Pier, to feel part of the river action.

7. The Henry Jones Art Hotel has the upscale Landscape Restaurant & Grill and the more casual Peacock and Jones (with a menu overseen by Ben Milbourne).

8. Up for a drive? Don’t miss The Agrarian Kitchen in New Norfolk; Fat Pig Farm, home to gourmet farmer Matthew Evans, in the Huon Valley; and Van Bone, a rammed-earth gem in Marion Bay.

9. Raise a glass to wine bars Sonny, The Glass House, Lupin and Willing Bros. (I’m also excited to try Stefano Lubiana’s soon-tobe-revealed Molto and Matt Breen’s Ogee.)

10. There’s lots of quality caffeine in Hobart (and you can get good coffee and excellent bread at the Pigeon Hole café in West Hobart). But the café I love the most? Sunbear in the CBD for wicked toasties and a laid-back atmosphere.

Salut!