REVIEW
From a softly glowing shopfront on the fringe of Hobart's CBD, Templo serves Hobart's best Italian food; the compact 20-seat room with mostly communal dining turning strangers into friends. The brilliantly executed chef's menu, scrawled on a blackboard alongside the smart list of low-intervention wines, changes frequently but is likely to start with a plate of housemade pickles served with charcuterie designed to be piled high on a freshly fried square of dough. The vegetable course might be darkly charred and roasted carrots served with vivid carrot top pesto, roasted almonds and a flurry of parmesan. Templo is rightly famed for its pasta – perhaps bucatini tossed with fresh sardines, pickled shallots, currants, pine nuts and a sweet and sour agrodolce or winter chicory-stuffed agnolotti glistening under a simple butter and chicory stem sauce. Laidback yet efficient and informed service further allows the food to shine.
ABOUT
Chef Ryan Watson
Price guide $$$
Bookings Essential
Wheelchair access No
Price guide $$$
Bookings Essential
Wheelchair access No
This review was made independently for the Gourmet Traveller Restaurant Guide. The guide's reviewers visit unannounced and pay their way.
