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Take a Bite: The Best Sandwiches in Hobart & Launceston
The best sandwiches in Hobart and Launceston are stacked with house-cured meats, local produce, warm focaccia, sharp pickles and serious deli energy.
The best sandwiches in Tasmania are not messing around. Across Hobart and Launceston, lunch has become a stacked, saucy, bread-wrapped sport, with local bakeries, corner delis and clever cafes turning the humble sanga into something worth crossing town for. We’re talking house-cured meats, focaccia still warm from the oven, mortadella with pistachio, Reubens dripping with Russian dressing, egg-mayo sandos, schnitzel rolls and bagels with enough personality to ruin your sad desk lunch forever.
From West Hobart shopfronts to Launceston bakeries, these are the sandwiches bringing serious flavour, craft and cult-status energy to Tasmania’s lunch scene. Bring napkins. Maybe clear your afternoon.
The Best Sandwiches in Hobart
Gigi’s Diner
Gigi’s Diner brings a blast of American comfort to Battery Point, with the sandwich order landing somewhere between Hobart brunch and New Orleans daydream. The prawn po’boy is the move: crispy tempura prawn tossed in Old Bay spice, fennel and cabbage slaw, chimichurri and baguette, all crunch, heat and sauce in the right places. Fried chicken fans are hardly left hungry, with a spicy vodka chicken burger, tenders and chicken-and-waffle action also in play. Big booths, thick shakes and no great interest in restraint make this one a lunch stop with excellent damage potential.
17A Castray Esplanade, Battery Point
The Lobby Eatery & Cafe
Lobby Eatery makes a serious case for lunch built between bread. Start with the Reuben: slow-cured house corned beef, pickles, house-fermented sauerkraut, and Swiss, finished with sweet, creamy Russian dressing on crisp-edged, fluffy focaccia. The chicken schnitzel number comes with spice, iceberg, cheese and house tomato sauce, while the egg-mayo sando folds pickled onion through pillowy bread. Everything is made to order on house bakes, with the generosity of a deli counter and the care of a very good cafe. Pair yours with a flat white or a Mont Blanc and let the afternoon recalibrate itself.
Lands Building, 134 Macquarie Street, Hobart
Westside Laundry
Once a corner laundromat, Westside Laundry now spins out sandwiches by day and diner decadence after dark. The mortadella number is the one to know, sliced thin, warmed through and folded into focaccia with pesto and pistachio, while bagels, sangas and rotating specials bring a little New York deli charge to West Hobart. There’s sharp coffee, a window seat and, after dark, the lure of martinis, chicken waffles and caviar hash browns, making this pocket-sized room dangerously useful from lunch through late.
87 Goulburn Street, Hobart
Wursthaus Kitchen
Wursthaus Kitchen has deli authority in its bloodstream, which is exactly why its sandwiches hit harder than most. The Reuben is the order with weight: house-cured meat, melted cheese, pickle tang and enough richness to justify the napkin situation. Baguette rolls keep things sharp with just-baked bread, smallgoods from the cabinet and fillings that understand salt, fat and crunch. A Hobart lunch stop for people who trust a deli to know what bread is for.
1 Montpelier Retreat, Battery Point
St J’s Deli
At the entrance of Hobart’s Hanging Garden precinct, St. J’s Deli serves up unapologetically big, bold sandwiches that hit all the right notes. Their Reuben is a local legend, stacked with pastrami, sauerkraut, and just the right amount of tang. If you’re chasing soul-satisfying flavour in sandwich form, this is where you want to be.
153 Liverpool Street, Hobart
Happy Larry Deli
Behind the old ANZ on Liverpool Street, Happy Larry Deli makes the case for focaccia as a full-blown lunch event. The bread has lift, chew and enough golden edge to handle the big fillings: shattery schnitzel with tangy slaw, mortadella with haloumi and rocket pesto, sharp pickles, house-made sauces and all the good messy bits that separate a great sandwich from a polite one. Come hungry. Order napkins.
Behind ANZ Bank, 59-63 Liverpool Street, Hobart
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Pigeon Whole Bakers
Pigeon Whole Bakers has the bread advantage, which makes its lunch counter a dangerous place to arrive hungry. Seasonal Tasmanian produce is worked into sandwiches with real backbone: roasted cauliflower with hummus and sunflower seeds, almond romesco tangled through sautéed greens, and toasties built for the pre-work grab. The sourdough does what great sourdough should, with crackle, chew and enough structure to make vegetables feel like the main event.
32 Argyle Street, Hobart
Rosie In My Midnight Dreams
Rosie In My Midnight Dreams has the Brooke Street Pier advantage: lunch arrives with the Derwent doing half the seduction. The sandwiches still hold their own. Chicken comes with tuckshop memory sharpened for grown-ups, corned beef lands salty and generous, and the bread has enough spring to make both behave. Order wine, claim a table with water in your eyeline and let the afternoon get beautifully away from you.
Brooke St Pier, Hobart
GeT ToASteD
At Farm Gate Market, GeT ToASteD understands the power of bread, heat and Tasmanian cheese. Their sourdough toasties arrive burnished at the edges, molten through the middle and cut with just enough pickle to keep the whole thing from behaving too nicely. It’s the market breakfast you eat standing up, napkin in one hand, coffee in the other, wondering why every weekend does not begin with cheese pulling from a paper bag.
Farm Gate Market, Hobart
Sunbear
Sunbear knows exactly how to make a sandwich feel like lunch with a little backbone. The Soft Pigeon Whole Bakery Bun comes layered with leg ham, greens, herb mayo and relish, while the Big Westbae Farm Egg Sandwich folds beet relish and cheddar into the morning-after dream. Vegan orders are handled with roasted pumpkin and tahini toasties, and the cauliflower cheese or roasted onion versions hit the old-school cafe feel without turning sentimental.
145 Collins Street, Hobart
The Best Sandwiches in Launceston
LeKoh
LeKoh is Launceston’s lunch counter with a very good read on what people actually want: focaccia sandwiches with crisp edges and soft middles, toasties that do not overcomplicate the brief, and a ham, avocado, lettuce and cheese number built for repeat visits. The matcha cream croissant handles the sweet finish, but the move is the Fillet of Fish sandwich, a golden, saucy little reason to rearrange your lunch plans.
55 George Street, Launceston
Bread & Butter
Bread + Butter has long been Launceston’s carb authority, but look past the tahini brownies, golden cookies and pastry layers and the sandwich board makes a very convincing case for lunch. The Kimchi Toastie comes with heat and crunch, the Chicken Toastie folds Swiss cheese and pickles into the equation, and the BLT gets its charm from Kewpie mayo. The sleeper hit is the Ficelle: buttered baguette, mustard pickle, salami and not a wasted move.
70 Elizabeth Street, Launceston
Valley Coffee
Valley Coffee is Launceston’s sandwich sleeper hit, tucked on Paterson Street with house-roasted Paperboy beans and a counter that knows lunch can carry the whole day. The Reuben is the one people send you in for, all toasted heft and deli-shop satisfaction, but the satay veggie wrap and BLAT have their own loyalists. Clean lines, crate-side coffee, pastries, bagels, and enough inner-city nerve to make a weekday sandwich feel like a plan.
Sitchu Tip: Start with the Reuben, then come back for the satay veggie wrap.
old stables, 39 Paterson Street, Launceston
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