42° Latitude Is One Reason Why We Grow and Make The World's Best
There’s no other place on earth where you will find it all. Drive door to door, taste it from the producer or settle down in a restaurant that will simply dial your taste buds to eleven.
And we’re not exactly sure why. Our cleanest air and water allowing us to grow the most delicious ingredients may have something to do with it. It could be the home-grown and new-arrival chefs that have that magic touch. Or maybe because every morning it’s quiet, peaceful and simply, ahhhhhhh. In the end, who cares what it is, simply start enjoying.
Tassie breakfast perfection with Tasmanian smoked salmon, poached organic eggs, stone ground sourdough and hand whisked hollandaise sauce.
Dairying in Tasmania began after European free settlement with just a few cows to supply fresh milk. By the 1850’s Tasmania was self-sufficient and exporting both butter and cheese to the mainland. By 1891, there were around 450 dairy farmers, half of them were women.
The ‘Apple Isle’ refers to Tasmania being an important apple grower and exporter. The first apple tree was planted in Tasmania and Australia in 1788 when William Bligh anchored in Adventure Bay on Bruny Island and planted a selection of fruit, including three apple seedlings.
Every morning is the best morning when it comes to delicious places to gorge down the first meal of the day. Here’s a couple of regions that do it really, really well…
Every Saturday in Hobart
Famous for: Tasmania's most popular tourist attraction.
Food, fun, art and craft
Tourism Tasmania and Rob Burnett
5 Farmers market You Must Wander
Cygnet Market
1st and 3rd Sunday in Cygnet
Famous for: Organic produce
Tourism Tasmania and Nick Osborne
5 Farmers market You Must Wander
Farm Gate Markets
Every Sunday Morning in Hobart
Famous for: Amazingly fresh produce, meeting the farmer
5 Farmers market You Must Wander
Burnie Farmers Market
1st and 3rd Sunday in Burnie
Famous for: Fresh produce & local baking
Tourism Tasmania and Kathryn Leahy
5 Farmers market You Must Wander
Harvest Farmers Market
Every Saturday in Launceston
Famous for: Everything fresh!
Tourism Tasmania and Rob Burnett
5 Farmers market You Must Wander
Dunalley Fish Market
Dunalley, East Coast
Famous for: Fresh fish and seafood
5 Farmers market You Must Wander
Richmond Farmers and Makers Market
Every Saturday - Richmond Town Hall
Famous for: homegrown products
Here's a little fact...
Tasmania regularly has the world’s cleanest air according to Cape Grim Baseline Air Pollution Station which regularly monitors Tasmania. It is so pure that it has even been shipped to Australian athletes competing in the Olympics!
Our small island happens to be the world’s largest supplier of wild abalone. Our wild and tempestuous coastline, coupled with being one of the worlds unspoilt marine environments allow the shellfish to flourish and grow in abundance and the world thanks us!
You'll visit the home of Bruny Island's cheese, oysters, fudge, berries, wine and whisky to savour their produce and hear the stories behind the harvest.
Learn the art of making sparkling wine from Tassies sparkling royalty Josef Chromy Estate, then make your own sparkling to enjoy at a 2 course gourmet lunch that follows.
Watch your local guide catch your lunch in the ocean then prepare a bountiful seafood feast - rock lobster, abalone, sea urchin, mussels, oysters, sashimi, salmon, paired with a delicious gourmet spread.
Learn about the swirling winds that bring the freshest air on earth to the Natural State as well as clean rains. Add that to deep, nutrient soil and you have the perfect recipe for abundant agriculture.
Travel to MONA in Mona’s Fast Ferry in the super exclusive Posh Pit, get a private tour of Morilla’s vineyard then enjoy a two course lunch at The Source Restaurant, with matched wines.
Wandering through our lands can make anyone hungry. Luck we have plenty to choose from when it comes to lunch and afternoon grazing… especially if it involves the world’s best cheeses, honey or oysters.
Taste prized Pacific oysters on working oyster farm located in a beautiful setting within an internationally significant wetland and ornithological site.
Tasmania wine records date back to 1823 and our first grapevines produced a wine that was shown at a Paris exhibition in 1848. The early pioneering work that began almost 200 years ago has inspired others and resulted in over 200 wineries and World Class Cool Climate Wines.
The first ‘Australian’ cookbook ever created was called The English and Australian Cookery Book by Tasmanian Edward Abbott. It was published in London, 1864 and in it Abbott drew attention to the quality and abundance of Tasmanian raw materials, especially fish, flour, beer and wines.
Its easy to fall into the trap of settling into the one place due to its location, produce and friendly hosts. But, hey, there’s always tomorrow. Here’s a few spots to get you thinking…
Visit Bruny Island Cheese Co - Tourism Tasmania and Andrew Wilson
10 Food Trails You Must Swallow
Bruny Island
Famous for: Oysters, cheese chocolates and other gourmet delights
Kiss a Fish Cooking School - Tourism Tasmania and Rob Burnett
10 Food Trails You Must Swallow
East Coast
Famous for: the freshest seafood
Wobbly Boot Vineyard - Mitch Osborne
10 Food Trails You Must Swallow
Coal River
Famous for: Wine, Cheese and Whisky
Agrarian Kitchen and Cooking School, New Norfolk
10 Food Trails You Must Swallow
Derwent Valley
Famous for: Historic pubs, Farm to Table, Cooking School
Tourism Tasmania & Nigel Honey
10 Food Trails You Must Swallow
Hobart Waterfront
Famous for: Great Fish & Chips and seafood on the water
Tourism Tasmania and Dan Uglow
10 Food Trails You Must Swallow
Huon Valley
Famous for: Apples and delicious farm gates
10 Food Trails You Must Swallow
Launceston Seaport boardwalk
Famous for: Outstanding cafes and restaurants on the marina
Christmas Hills Raspberry Farm Cafe - Phil Kuruvita
10 Food Trails You Must Swallow
Cradle to Coast Tasting Trail
Famous for: Yummy Farm gates and hazelnuts
Here's a little fact...
The first Australian truffle was uncovered in Tasmania in 1999 after 8 years of work. Prized around the world for their culinary value, black truffles come from a fungus which grows just below the surface on the roots of oak or hazel trees. Australian producers use spaniel truffle dogs instead of pigs (used in France) which they find easier to train.
Tasmania has the most acreage under organic farming per head of population in Australia giving us a huge variety of organic produce. We are proud to be leading the way food free from synthetic chemicals, artificial fertilisers, pesticides, irradiation or genetically modified organisms. Try Willie Smiths Organic Apple Cider!
Feasting on local Bruny produce such as oysters, cider, chocolate and cheeses. Spot wildlife, walk the beaches, smell the rainforests, climb The Neck Lookout and tour the iconic Cape Bruny lighthouse.
Drink Tasmanian cool climate wines in nature's best wine bar in the wilderness
Wineglass Bay is beautiful and remote, a shimmering crescent of white sand fringes at the edge of a perfect turquoise sea where you will enjoy a Tasmanian Ploughman's lunch of fresh local produce.
Enjoy wine tasting at Josef Chromy’s Cellar Door and then retire to the restaurant for a delicious two course lunch of fine Tasmanian produce matched with wines.
Go on a Freycinet Food & Wine Tour day journey of Gastronomical Proportions where you will visit sample the finest cool climate wines at Vineyard Cellar Doors and feast on all kinds of food delights.
Feast on Tasmania's freshest, finest food and wine like a local while also taking in the natural and cultural history of Maria Island, going for a nature walk or relax by the beach.
You simply will not find another place where you will find it all; wander from door to door, taste it from the producer, or settle down in a restaurant that will simply dial your taste buds to eleven.
Belgrove Whiskeys grows all its own grain and malts on site and then harvests the cleanest Tasmanian water straight from the sky to give you one of the purest whiskeys around.
Tasmania is home to Australia’s oldest brewery, the Cascade Brewery in Hobart. In 1824, Peter Degraves, when serving time in jail for failing to pay his debts to England was craving a beer, dreamed up a plan to utilise Tasmania’s pure water and ideal hops growing conditions to make premium beer. When he was released he set his plan in motion and the rest is history!
Australia’s oldest pub which was built in 1807 on the River Derwent in Hobart called the Hope and Anchor which was renamed as the Whale Fishery. Stories from the early days talk of a rough and rowdy venue where punches were traded as frequently as beer and rum.
Indulge yourself with a true piece of Tasmania’s colonial history through a Coal River Valley Wine Tour. Featuring some of Tasmania’s highest quality cool-weather grapes produced by elite Winemakers.
Australia’s top chefs have been flocking to Tasmania, drawn here by the exceptional local produce and the passion for cuisine and giving you plenty of choice when it comes to fine dining.
Tassie produces some world-class drams that have won numerous awards from esteemed awards shows and magazines like Whisky Magazine and International Whisky Competition.
A full day of site seeing and indulgence at Coal River Farm, Mt Wellington, Battery Point, Salamanca, Hobart Waterfront, Richmond, Paddle Duck Wine, Frogmore Wine, Barilla Bay Oysters and Tas live Abalone.
Spend the day sampling craft beer from local favourites, learn first hand of the beer making process, tasty lunch included, here stories of Tasmania's beer history.
Enjoy a Cider and wine tour that takes you to 3 of southern Tasmania's best craft beverage experiences in the Huon Valley including Home hill Winery, Pagan Cider, Willie Smiths and the Apple shed.
Explore some of Tasmania’s most picturesque vineyard settings with cellar door tastings, cider tasting, cheese tasting, plus gin and vodka tasting plus a delicious vineyard lunch.
Go to six of southern Tasmania's best craft beverage experiences in the Huon and The Coal River Valley including Brooke Street Bright Eyes, Home Hill Winery, Pagan Cider, Willie Smiths Organic Cider, Sullivans Cove Distillery, Last Rites Brewery and Hobart Brewing Co.
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