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Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart
Working from a studio at the Salamanca Arts Centre, award-winning jeweller Emily Snadden designs and hand-manufactures botanical-inspired pieces drawn from Tasmania's endemic flora and landscape. Every piece, from bespoke commissions to bridal jewellery, is made on site by Snadden herself rather than outsourced to a production house.
Best for Botanical-inspired handmade jewellery
Hobart waterfront, Hobart
Federation crafts its chocolate from bean to bar using just two ingredients, cacao and raw Australian cane sugar, an approach visible through the viewing windows of its factory floor. Its Hobart retail store sits a short walk from the waterfront, Salamanca Place and the CBD, alongside a production base in the nearby historic village of Richmond.
Best for Two-ingredient bean-to-bar chocolate near Hobart waterfront
Salamanca Place, Hobart
Established in 1980 on Salamanca Place, Handmark has spent over four decades exhibiting Tasmanian craft and fine art across ceramics, glass, jewellery, wood, textiles and sculpture. Its rotating monthly exhibitions give both emerging and established island makers a commercial gallery platform inside the historic sandstone warehouse district.
Best for Tasmanian studio glass, ceramics and wood craft
Hobart waterfront, Hobart
Founded in 1992 by Bill and Lyn Lark, this distillery is credited with reigniting Tasmania's whisky industry after Bill lobbied to change colonial-era laws that had blocked small-still distilling for over 150 years. Its Davey Street cellar door on the Hobart waterfront pours single malts made with peat cut from the family's own Tasmanian Highlands bog and casks sourced from local fortified-wine producers.
Best for Single-malt Tasmanian whisky and cellar-door tastings
Hobart, Tasmania
Led by master jeweller and multiple national design-award winner Chris Hood, Metal Urges makes diamond, platinum and 18ct gold engagement rings and custom pieces to order in its own Hobart workshop. Its team of qualified jewellers, valuers and setters describes itself as the largest working group of jewellery makers in the state, with every piece produced by the person the client speaks to.
Best for Custom-made fine gold and diamond jewellery
Hobart, Tasmania
Casey Overeem began distilling as a hobbyist before founding what became a landmark of Tasmania's modern whisky revival, releasing his first single malt under the original Old Hobart Distillery name in 2012. The label passed out of family hands in 2014 and returned in 2020 when his daughter Jane and her husband Mark Sawford bought it back, continuing the house style of port, sherry and bourbon cask-finished single malts.
Best for Port and sherry cask-finished single-malt whisky
Salamanca Place, Hobart
Set at Salamanca Place in Battery Point, this owner-operated shop stocks fine wool in every form: finished knitwear, felted pieces and yarn for hand knitters, much of it dyed or blended in-house. Staff double as fibre-craft teachers, running classes alongside a shop floor that also carries work by independent Tasmanian fibre artisans.
Best for Merino and Tasmanian wool knitwear and yarn
Cambridge, near Hobart
Based in Cambridge just outside the city, Sullivans Cove distills and bottles from single casks only, a small-batch method that has carried the label to international whisky recognition. Tours and tastings run daily from the cellar door at Lamb Place, where visitors taste the barrel-strength releases straight from the source.
Best for Single-cask Tasmanian whisky
Criterion Street, Hobart
Founded in 2007, Villino ranks among Hobart's longest-running specialty coffee businesses, roasting on three Probat machines at an offsite facility and supplying beans to cafes across the city. Its original cafe sits at the top of Criterion Street, with a sister takeaway outlet, Ecru, a short walk down the same block.
Best for Founded in 2007, Villino ranks among Hobart's longest-running specialty coffee businesses
Salamanca, Hobart
Wursthaus Kitchen runs a Salamanca deli and event kitchen built around an exclusive supply of heritage-breed Berkshire pork raised in the Huon Valley, alongside curated weekly cheese boxes and made-to-order hampers. Its commercial kitchen also hosts hands-on cooking masterclasses led by the in-house chefs.
Best for Heritage-breed charcuterie and Tasmanian cheese
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