Landscape

Landscape is the chef-driven contemporary dining room of chef Nathaniel Embrey — opened in 2018 in the historic IXL Jam Factory on the Hobart waterfront, the original 1858 industrial building that the Henry Jones family ran as Tasmania's largest jam-and-preserves operation through the 19th and 20th centuries — and is one of the city's most architecturally distinctive contemporary openings. The dining room sits in the converted 19th-century factory with original sandstone walls, hand-carved Tasmanian-cedar beams, and seventy-two covers.

The cuisine is contemporary Tasmanian with a strong asado-grill programme. Embrey lights the asado grill with seasoned Tasmanian-cask timber from the Tasmanian Cask Company. Signatures include a slow-grilled Tasmanian Wagyu over Tasmanian-cask wood; a wood-fired Bass Strait octopus with green olive; a hand-cut Tasmanian-salmon tartare with Tasmanian wasabi leaves; a Tasmanian-truffle hand-rolled tagliolino; the famous 'fire-roasted Tasmanian-pumpkin' with native bush herbs.

The wine list runs to 400 references with deep Tasmanian smallholder coverage and a respectable Yarra Valley section. The cocktail bar at the front of the restaurant runs a serious Tasmanian-spirits programme.

The dining room is the most architecturally distinctive contemporary opening in Hobart. Service is precision — uniformed captains, choreographed plate-arrival, exact pacing.

Landscape is the impress-the-client room in Hobart — the IXL Jam Factory historic setting is the conversation, the asado grill is theatrical, and the kitchen runs at a friendly mid-tier register. Book the corner four-top by the central asado grill.