Boutique hotels
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The Priory Country Lodge
- Style
- Glamorous gothic
- Setting
- Heather-flecked Highlands
Central Highlands Eating, drinking and dancing
Restaurants
(+61 (0)3 6259 8179)
Central Highlands Lodge
This rangy complex on the southern shores of Great Lake (the second-largest permanent freshwater lake in Australia) provides fishing fiends with the best (ok, only) restaurant within many miles. Wash down your venison hot pot with a glass or two of robust Tasmanian red.
Haddens Bay, Miena, TAS 7030
(+61 (0)3 6261 2667)
Tynwald
In New Norfolk on the southern fringe of the Central Highlands, Tynwald is run by a couple of renegade city chefs who know a thing or two about country cooking. It’s an opulent 1830s mansion replete with turrets and river views – a romantic setting for a seasonally inspired, locally sourced dinner, with plenty of game on the menu. Open nightly; bookings essential.
1 Tynwald Street, New Norfolk, TAS 7140
Cafés
(+61 (0)3 6259 5551)
Fat Doe Bakery
It doesn’t look like much from the outside – a glass-fronted box that’s more petrol station than patisserie – but inside you’ll find an impressive selection of freshly baked comestibles. On a cold Highlands afternoon, shoot for a hot curried scallop or steak-and-mushroom pie with plenty of tomato sauce, or a quivering slab of vanilla custard slice.
12 Patrick Street, Bothwell, TAS 7030
(+61 (0)3 6288 1364)
The Possum Shed
At the rather literally named Westerway on the road into Mount Field National Park, this crafty little roadside coffee shack serves piping-hot cups of the black stuff and freshly made salads, sandwiches, burgers, tarts, cakes and biscuits. A resident platypus frolics in the creek out the back.
1654 Gordon River Road, Westerway, TAS 7030
