Cafe Toulouse
Editorial
Opened by a French Basque chef almost two decades ago, this was Hobart's first combined bakery, cakery, coffee house, breakfast and casual noshery establishment - a style that quickly became trendy and is now commonplace. Over the years the cafe's fortunes have waxed and waned with a variety of operators, culminating in a fire that gutted the place, its recent reopening and an even more recent change of ownership. The refurbishment has given a warm and inviting, slightly retro, French bistro feel to the place and the new owners have brought the food and service back to their very best with all the cooking done in-house.
Breakfast might consist of a fluffy fromage or fine herb omelette followed by freshly baked croissants. Sweet tooths can pop in mid-morning for a coffee fix with a petit fruit tart, while heartier appetites are catered for with grilled croquet monsieur with raclette and ham for mothers or a croquet enfant for the kids. At lunch there's a choice of pate, quiche Lorraine or Toulousaine; a country-style assiette of assorted tastes; baguettes with a range of fillings; salads; heart-warming soup du jour; or daily specials from the blackboard. There's a small but well-selected list of wines, prices are good, and the place buzzes from the baking aromas of early morning to the coffee smells of late afternoon.
Graeme Phillips, May 2007
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