The Cornelian Bay Boathouse

We rocked up on a Tuesday for lunch without a reservation. The place was surprisingly busy. Fortunately, a table decided to move away from the window and we scored their table, which was in the shade by the time we were seated! Perfect spot looking over the bay at the Tasman bridge. Oh yes, the food was beautiful and the service was very attentive and not intrusive at the same time. Highly recommended. Naked oysters and Duo of duck charcuterie plate pictured

As a gluten free coeliac , I frequent this restaurant as every meal is delicious, perfectly cooked , tasty, safe for me and interesting. I have eaten the barramundi , squid, steak , duck , oysters, chicken and sides. The plant based meals are very tidy and tasty too. Service is friendly and timely - superb . Bar menu is impressive and venue is flexible with numbers and seating. I come here again and again as I am guaranteed a good experience in a pleasant atmosphere, everytime. When you have a pet with you and feel like a quick snack n drink there is a kiosk and they serve gluten free fryer fries . 😋

Local Sydney gal and let me just say Cornelian Bay Boathouse beats any seafood in Sydney. seafood pasta best I've had all my life, quality of seafood is something else and there's just so much of it for the price. Next, service is top notch, the guys are so experienced and social. Overall, if I come back to Hobart this will be the first place we will come back to.

Fabulous evening. Food great, price right, service excellent, location beautiful. Would highly recommend 👌

We enjoyed a return leisurely Sunday lunch at The Cornelian Bay Boathouse reinforcing this restaurant as one of our favourites. On arriving we were welcomed with prompt and professional service, (even though we’d arrived at the same time as a large group booking) and shown to our pre-booked table by the window. We especially like the open views of the bay and the Tasman Bridge in the far distance. There was a full house of other patrons but we were attentively looked after by the Staff who regularly checked in to top up drinks and check our satisfaction with our meals. We found them friendly, professional and knowledgeable about the menu items. For entrees we chose the Seafood Taster and Char-Grilled Octopus which were full of flavour and beautifully presented. Our main courses were the Spice Fried Squid and Seafood Pasta which were equally impressive both in taste and quantity of food. The seafood in all our dishes was tender and generous. (See Photos) We shared a dessert of Coffee Cheesecake which was also delicious and so much so that I forgot to take a photo because we got stuck into it immediately it arrived. We drank our Tasmanian wines by the glass which allowed each of the two of us to have our favourite but different variety. All in all, it was a very enjoyable return visit and I look forward to another in the hopefully not too distant future. Thank you to the Team at Cornelian Bay Boathouse.

This is a hidden gem in Hobart. A high quality restaurant with fantastic views overlooking the bay. A great menu with good size portions and quality food. Service is also exceptional. We came here for Easter lunch and thoroughly enjoyed everything about this place. Even better as it isn’t on the tourist trail. Neither of us could finish our mains!

One of the best restaurants around Hobart. We ordered the oysters, braised lamb and spicy squid and all of those were mouth-watering. Great hospitality, location and ambience!

Amazing restaurant – delicious food, quick service, and friendly staff. They truly deserve 5 stars!

The boathouse at Cornelian bay is a beautiful setting, but it's a tourist trap. Terrible service nonsensical menu. The kind of place that doesn't respect customers. The rigid menu is designed to get the most money from the customer. An example is the Fish & Chips, including fish, chips, tartar sauce and lemon or a salad. I wanted to order the fish and chips with a side salad. However, only if you get it with house salad; I asked what was in the salad and answered lettuce, parmesan, and ciabatta for eight dollars. I could either have the fish and chips with tartar sauce and lemon or the salad. If I wanted the tartar sauce and lemon, I would need to buy the eight dollar house salad. Absurd! When did I ask why? The answer was, "the menu is fixed, no substitutions." I wanted just a small side salad. I asked why the salad had only lettuce when other dishes had tomato and other salad vegetables available. It's not like I was asking for ingredients they were not using. I can't understand why they refuse to offer it with chips, sauce, lemon and a side salad. The boathouse wants to control its customers, not serve them. They are interested in your money, not in an enjoyable customer experience.

I had lunch here with a big group of people for a year-end function. Located on the beach at Cornelian Bay, Boat House Restaurant has a perfect view of sailing boats and the Tasman Bridge. I chose Grilled Tasmanian Salmon for main course, which came with toasted nori, pickled ginger and enoki mushroom salad. The salad was great! I had Fillet of grilled Trout with white beans and garlic for entree, which was quite nice. But most of the other participants took Warm Salad of roasted Pork Loin (with fresh apple and honey & seeded mustard dressing), which looked so yummy that I would have changed my decision if I could. Their Boat House Pav was quite good too. The pavlovas had crispy outer shell and soft & chewy centre, which were rated very good by the Australian participants in the function. What I did not like here was that their services were very very slow. Half of my company was unable to stay until the coffee and tea time and I was not either. When I left the restaurant with some of my companions, we were there for 3 hours and just finished our desserts in a few minutes and we did not know when the coffee and tea would come. But we were no longer able to wait. It was lunch time and we all needed to be back to work. If the staffs would have been able to speed up their services, it would deserve 4 or 5 stars.

Cornelian Bay is the perfect place to take the olds for a picturesque lunch or dinner. It's got a great menu--a nice blend of adventurous starters and classic mains, as well as surprising desserts with plenty of options, something to suit everyone. The Boat House also deserves massive props to being so accommodating for my friend's small wedding party reception after her original reception restaurant in Swansea closed its doors only a couple of months out from the wedding date. Every other party member was coming in from out of town, but between the bride's emails to the manager John and my popping in for a couple of in-person visits (and meals!) in the lead up to the big day, the evening was all we could have asked for. I look forward to seeing whether they do end up sorting out a separate small dining room, as while we were separated from the rest of the restaurant, we didn't have the privacy that would have better benefited reception speeches--having said that, there were only seventeen of us so the speeches didn't go for very long, and didn't have to be projected TOO far! We also had a bit of a laugh joining in singing happy birthday for another table of diners. We did also seem to just have one poor girl allocated as server to our table as well as other tables in the restaurant, and before we were a few glasses of wine down each we could have done with an extra server (or even two), but once the belts were unbuckled there was certainly less concern. In the end with all things considered I'm happy to leave four stars for the Boat House, as the wedding reception was an extraordinary situation and my two solo meals there were exceptional. Hot tip: always check out the oyster specials of the day. The oysters are always awesome but the specials can take them to another level! Plus the chowder is divine.

Had lunch here on a Sunday while in Hobart with a cruise. The very eclectic restaurant is a cab ride away from downtown Hobart and my advice to anyone in same position is stay closer to downtown Hobart. The seats were uncomfortable, the menu was limited (no sandwiches or salads), the food was average, and service was slow. View would have been nice if tide had not been out.

Had lunch here recently and found the quality of service, quality of the food and drink options to be very good. The location and view makes well for a relaxing way to spend the afternoon. We extended lunch well into the afternoon and was made to be very welcome throughout even though they were preparing for the evening session (we didn't stay by the way). We will be back!