Hobart bars, pubs & clubs scene now boasts of live music in afternoons, with tapas and red wine flowing; harbour-side gourmet Chinese and harbour-side sit-on-a-park-bench fish-and-chips; and plenty of clean, fast, buzzy venues which attract eclectic crowds of office workers, shopping mums, alternates, youngies and oldies for lunch and in-betweens.

Venues range from a revolving restaurant with monthly food and wine tasting evenings to cute bars with cocky-spiked hair aplenty seated at the tables and lounging in the lounges.