Stanley Hotel Bistro

The food at this restaurant is excellent. The seafood chowder is rich and full of fresh seafood flavor, while the pork chop is tender and juicy. We thoroughly enjoyed our dinner.

Food is cooked very well. The ingredients are high quality and fresh. Loved my steak and especially the garlic butter abalone.

We thoroughly enjoyed our evening meal in a beautiful pub over looking an amazing sun set. The staff are super nice too. I had the scallop pot pie which was full of scallops and is rating as one of the best I've had in Tassie! My wife had the seafood chowder which was also nicely full of seafood. Some of the meals are expensive but our choices were very acceptable and delicious.

This was a great option for NYE, when there is very little open in the town. We had an early booking and could not have been happier from the moment we were seated until we left. Service was attentive and efficient and portion sizes generous. This is the place to get a Cape Grim steak (farmed just up the road) that is cooked to your liking, They know what they're doing. The sweet crumbed scallops and the local dessert of fresh raspberries were also perfection. We rolled out of the place and would thoroughly recommend it to anyone visiting the town.

After spending majority of the day at Cradle Mountain, we were certainly looking forward to a great dinner in a warm restaurant. Being walking distance from our accommodation we entered the bar area and were welcomed into the dining area. A warm, well presented restaurant with a variety of dishes to choose from. The food was amazing, complimented with a glass of wine! A stunning view too!

Glad we booked ahead as the Bistro is hugely popular! Excellent pub menu, fresh local produce and really friendly and attentive staff.

Lovely ambience in dining room. Wait staff very friendly, but professional. Food tasty and nicely presented. Just watch that you get the wine you order (we didn't and it was a much more expensive bottle).

Awesome service and food in a great location. Can recommend the porterhouse steak and pork cutlet.

Three years ago I would have given this place five stars, as my first experience of Stanley and the pub was really one to remember. My friend and I, travelling through in a campervan, stopped overnight and got a bit tipsy in the public bar drinking delicious Boags Wizard Smith ales and meeting abalone divers next to the fire before having the meal of our lives (the chowder blew us away) in the bistro out the back. A year ago, on my first return to Stanley since moving to Tasmania, I would have knocked the rating back to three stars. The pub didn't live up to the memory I'd been hanging onto. It was still tasty but the whimsy was gone, and I stayed upstairs at the pub overnight (I hadn't done so on my first visit), which was an interesting experience. I don't stay in a lot of pub accommodation but I reckon this was bang on for a standard pub room, so all good, but it's not an accommodation option I'd personally leap at. My third visit was just a couple of weeks ago. I took my visiting BFF up to Stanley for the night because the north west is the Tasmania of my heart, my favourite corner of the state, and I'm still inexplicably drawn to Stanley. The accommodation we stayed in recommended the pub for our meal. It was... fine. Tasty food but nothing overwhelming. The bistro room itself smelled a bit weird, a little musty. The service was sweet. I have to stop ordering the seafood bisque (did it used to be a chowder? Has it changed? How's my memory?) because as tasty as it is, I don't think it'll ever live up to that first precious memory. We also visited the bottle shop for the first time, and the range of Tassie wines was better than in the bistro! We grabbed a bottle of Blue Penguin Shiraz (which ended up being confusingly fruity for a Shiraz) and the public bar staff were good enough to pop the cork open for us as our accommodation's room didn't have a bottle opener (and we're so used to screw caps these days, we didn't even think to check). So I'm gonna stick with three stars. My nostalgia for the pub is stronger than my present experience, but it's still a good spot for this little town.

After a long drive great pub food and comfortable room. Central location to the town. Make sure you book ahead as Dinner hours in Regional Tassie is usually 6pm to 7:30pm as a rule of thumb. They looked after me here and after a short wait had a 3 course meal. Very attentive staff.