Mount Nelson Signal Station
12 November 15
Forget kunanyi/Mount Wellington — Mount Nelson is the lookout to which visitors and newcomers to Hobart should be taken!
It’s positively balmy in contrast to the icy gusts on Mount Wellington, features a brasserie with a tasty menu, showcases the colonial history of Tasmania in the well-preserved signal station and offers a number of well-formed trail walks in all directions.
The Signal Station Brasserie is open seven days, but not in the evenings. Most items on their menu are made from scratch in the kitchen under the supervision of head chef David Netherly (who trained at Quay in Sydney). Does that sound fancy to you? Well, it tastes pretty good.
Well-behaved kids are well-tolerated, and the kids’ menu offerings are basically as tasty as the adults’. Fish and chips turned out to be salmon dipped in handmade batter and freshly cooked, and the chips are more cubes of potatoes than the fingers that poke out of paper cups from lesser establishments.
When choosing what to eat, I think you can just randomly select any item without being disappointed. We ordered six different dishes and every plate was polished clean. If it hadn’t been quite so fancy, we would have licked the plates too!
Come for the view, stay for the food! The Mount Nelson Signal Station will be high on our list of places to return to with friends.
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1 · Missy · 13 November 2015, 21:33
I’ve yet to take the boys but I shall. Beautiful view.
2 · Emily · 20 November 2015, 00:31
I don’t suppose you’re in the Gold Coast area right now? I saw a lady at Robina today who looked similar to your photos, wearing red and dreadlocks. I thought it might be you but the woman was speaking to others, and I wasn’t certain, so I decided not to be a creepy stranger and interrupt her conversation :)
3 · Leisa · 21 November 2015, 06:18
It wasn’t until I looked at the scenery behind the girls playing that i realised where you were. I was there two years ago in the winter and the mountain was being blanketed with a layer of snow. It was so picturesque and the views incredible. I absolutely love Tasmania.
4 · Fed up · 24 November 2015, 22:14
Do the girls really need to do that with the beanbags? They are there to sit on and enjoy the view. Who wants kids filthy shoes, dirty feet all over the very thing provided to SIT on. You really have no fucking idea, no respect for others just me, me, me. Grow up
5 · Trudy · 24 November 2015, 22:30
Ooooh, I’ll be in Hobart for 1 day in March, and planned on taking friends up Mt Wellington, as I’ve been before.
Might change that plan and go here!
Is that a typo under the last pic… 1987??
6 · Donna · 4 January 2016, 16:55
In reply to Fed up – do you feel you may have spewed your own projections onto Lauren? Perhaps you could take a little more notice of your own inner turmoil when answering blog posts, rather than post comments designed to pull people down. Choose instead to uplift another human being who is simply choosing a different path to you. I hope you feel better soon.