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Harbour Lights Cafe

4.6 (19 reviews)
Closed 7:00 am - 5:00 pm

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Good for groups
Outdoor seating
Good for kids

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Bacon Benedict
Stormy M.

Great service and great food. We liked the location by the harbor and decided to stop in. It is a cozy comfortable place with seating outside, inside on the first floor and upstairs. We were here for breakfast and loved so many of the choices on the menu. Even better is the special requests we had seemed to not be a problem for our waiter or the cook staff. The food was hot, flavorful and very fresh. We gobbled up everything. We definitely enjoyed their breakfast foods. They had a lunch menu that also looked very good. This is definitely a find in Hobart for a great home style breakfast.

Ben J.

I have been to Harbour Lights Cafe for brunch about 3-4 times now with my wife. Today we were lucky enough to be seated up stairs with a window view out over the harbour. Both of us ordered the big breakfast which was absolutely smashing! I'll attach a picture to show how big the big breakfast really is, but good luck finishing it! The service was excellent and the friendly and professional attitude of the waitress as well as the great work by the chef, perfect poached eggs, was superb. Thanks again for a great breakfast!!

Open bacon melt

Food is great. Coffee was also good quality. A really nice place to visit. Have been here twice during our stay in Hobart. Staff were friendly and service was very efficient. Highly recommended.

Chicken and mushroom risotto.
Kathryn T.

Gorgeous little cafe on the harbour. The food was sensational and the service was top notch. We were left satisfied and happy at the end of our meal.

Kathleen K.

Had my morning walk and stopped in for a coffee. So cute. Great place to sit on the harbor. Wide selection of yummy breakfast. Highly recommend

The big breakfast was astounding.  Every part (even the spinach!) was excellent.

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Great location, incredible food! It's right on the pier with ample street seating and a quaint indoors.

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Great espresso drinks and a pretty good Eggs Benedict. Good service and lots of seating. Nice place to have breakfast!

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I'll attach a picture to show how big the big breakfast really is, but good luck finishing it!

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Small-fry - BAKED GOODS.

Small-fry

4.5(13 reviews)
0.3 km
$$

Small-fry, I've tried with you, but I have to call it…read more The space is small and beautiful but you didn't establish it. I went in with two friends today and despite a corner being vacated, your staff tried to place the three of us in a row, instead of in the corner. Have you ever dined with more than two people seated side by side? Conversation is impossible. We managed to negotiate our way into the corner despite your staffer's grave resistance to it (the hesitation being that us sitting in the corner would leave a single seat either side of us and heaven forbid solo diners from existing... we promised to move if the situation arose, and funnily enough, it didn't). Your menu (no longer presented on a wooden cube) is so expensive. The four cheese toastie was beautiful, but $18? And forgive me, but does anyone actually pay $20 for that porridge? And is a half hour wait for food really that great when you've got your prep piled on counters and only half a dozen seated customers? The coffee is still good.

Small-fry will make you feel like home. Not too many on the menu but what's on it is nice. Also you…read morecould find donuts and other sweet treats off the menu. The chef would cook just in front of you which is like in your own private dining room. Love the atmosphere here! Really Small but so sweet.

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Small-fry - Fooooooood.

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Small-fry - Cheese sandwich

Cheese sandwich

Small-fry - Mary: Bloody Mary (or Red Snapper, if you ask nicely), pork & venison slider, and beef & bacon skewer. Dunk 'n' eat.

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Mary: Bloody Mary (or Red Snapper, if you ask nicely), pork & venison slider, and beef & bacon skewer. Dunk 'n' eat.

Daci & Daci Bakers

Daci & Daci Bakers

4.2(42 reviews)
0.2 km
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This patisserie was right across our hotel so we were easily tempted. Alas, the confections looked…read morebetter than they tasted and we were a bit disappointed.

We came here for a late breakfast/early lunch. It is somewhat more of a refined cake and dessert…read moretype bakery, and the dessert items did look fabulous in the case. For breakfast however, it wasn't very good for me as there were very limited lower carb/higher protein items. We ordered an almond croissant and a sausage and shiraz roll along with a flat white coffee. We sat outside as they didn't have the AC running and it was really way too warm inside. They have table service inside and servers that run out the food you had ordered at the counter. They were all super friendly and even asked if everything was satisfactory as they cleared our table. Unfortunately, neither of the baked goods were great. The almond croissant had a nicely laminated dough although it needed a tad of salt. The dough was buttery however lacking flavor most likely due to a lack of salt in the butter they used in the dough. The filling was almost like really dense cake batter with basically no almond flavor - the texture seemed almost right, maybe they forgot the almond paste or almond extract. We are used to a much, much stronger flavored almond croissant with almond paste inside. There were nicely toasted almond slices on the top. The sausage roll was a real disappointment. Although it looked really nice it was very heavy, seemed greasy and had two fundamental flaws. The dough was too thick around the sausage so when they wrapped it and baked it there was way too much dough and it was actually nearly raw all along the bottom edges. The sausage was not crumbled or taken out of the casing so when you bit through the roll (or even cut it as we did) the entire sausage slipped right out of the dough and left a big empty hole! It did have nice caramelized onions and some herbs or spinach (didn't eat enough to know exactly!) between the dough and sausage - they might have contributed to the wet/raw sogginess of the dough if they were not cooked enough and then released water into the dough. They were very gracious when I asked if I could get a refund for the sausage roll as I could not find anything else I wanted to get as a replacement. Our server could not have been any more professional and nice about it. He got approval from his manager and gave us the refund. The flat white was very good. If I needed to eat some lovely desserts I'd give them another try given their professional staff and good service.

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Daci & Daci Bakers
Daci & Daci Bakers - Belgian chocolate hazelnut tart with fresh whipped cream.

Belgian chocolate hazelnut tart with fresh whipped cream.

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Harbour Lights Cafe - coffee - Updated July 2026

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