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Art, food and wine are very much a part of the Tasmanian holiday experience. There are now more ways than ever to savour the flavours in and around Hobart.

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Market value

Island Market is an indoor market in South Hobart specialising in new products, including Tasmanian wine and olive products. There is an olive-processing plant on site, so you watch the processing of tasty, fresh Tasmanian olive oil. Olive oil and wine tastings are available, and this market also sells seafood – including abalone and rock lobster – other fresh produce and prepared foods, bakery products, clothing and crafts. The Hobart bike track also passes by, so you can cycle there. The market is currently open every Sunday from 10am-4pm and is due to open on Friday and Saturday afternoons as well. Island Market, 54-56 Gormanston Road, Moonah, Hobart.
Tel: 03 6273 7918.

Salamanca Inn packages

Salamanca Inn offers various packages. Of note is the Romance Package, which includes two nights in the Executive Spa Suite, four dozen oysters, two passes to Tahune Airwalk, three course dinner, full breakfast at the restaurant and Richmond’s Meadow Bank vineyard platter for two.
www.salamancainn.com.au

Go fish

Mures Fish Centre is a Hobart institution on the fishermen’s wharf. As well as dining in at the à la carte restaurant upstairs or the fishing-boat level bistro, the centre has a range of seafood to buy to take back to your accommodation or as you tour the island. These include smoked-salmon pates, terrines, roulades and a range of classic seafood soups. Even if you are not buying, the mongers display in the bistro is worth seeing. Mures Fish Centre, Victoria Dock, Hobart.
Tel: 03 6231 2199

Easy flow of flavours

Go with the flow using the latest Tasmanian Cellar Door & Farm Gate Guide to help you source the island’s fine food and wine. Designed to help you enjoy regional fare and friendly encounters with the makers, growers and chefs, you’ll be able to find prime seafood, beef, full-flavoured cheeses, fresh vegetables and fruit, organic specialities, handmade chocolate, distinctive leatherwood honey and many other delicious gourmet treats. The guide will help you to discover the Tasmanian vineyards in their various scenic settings and includes the Australian Gourmet Traveller wine and food recommendations from its 2005 Australian Restaurant Guide. Available from Tourism Tasmania and Tasmanian Visitor Information Centres.
www.discovertasmania.com

Savour the south-west

Savour a stunning and remote environment – reached by a 50 minute flight over soaring mountains and some of the most rugged coastline – which was once home to one of Tasmania’s early conservationists. Par Avion has a range of options, including a two night tour with highlights such as landing at Melaleuca to see the endangered orange-bellied parrot and cruising the waterways of Port Davey and Bathurst Harbour.
Tel: 03 6248 5390 www.paravion.com.au

Local tastes at the Lark Distillery

A unique taste of Tasmania, the Bush Liqueur was created by Bill Lark of the Lark Distillery using Tasmania’s native mountain pepperberries. The liqueur is also blended with local Gillespies Ginger Beer to make 2UP, a ginger beer with a difference. Other specialties include a single-malt whisky, apple schnapps, bush liqueur, cherry max, pepperberry vodka and pepperberry gin. Lark Distillery, 14 Davey Street, Hobart.
Tel: 03 6231 9088. www.larkdistillery.com.au