Salamanca Fresh

A world recognised market Salamanca Market is a happening place. There is always hustle and bustle as crowds of interstate and overseas visitors mingle with locals and other tourists. Renowned for its wide range of local craft, artefacts and local produce and craft Salamanca Market is highly rated world wide and a must visit for tourists to Tasmania.

Great place to find fresh fruit and vegetables, meat and cheese, fresh fish, small cafes, fresh coffee and a bunch of goods. As a tourist in Melbourne, Salamanca is a must. I would recommend going early in the morning as it can get really busy and can also take up a lot of your time especially if you have other plans.
Tips:
— The free rail can get you close to Salamanca and the free rail is a great way to explore Melbourne.
— Market closes early. When we were there it closed at 3pm.
— If you plan on eating here, don’t expect a full meal, just things to snack on.
— Bring cash; some places take credit card but most cash.

Our concierge gave us a map and immediately highlighted the route to Salamanca Market since that’s where every visitor goes on Saturday.
It wound down and around Salamanca Place with many craft, food and drink stalls. I ate a baked potato with vegan coleslaw, a recently fried felafel and a masala pie from Summer Kitchen Bakery. My friend had Tasmania’s famous scallop pie from Smith’s Specialty Pies.
William McHenry & Sons Distillery from Port Arthur and Lark Distillery from around the corner were both there for World Gin Day. We tasted McHenry’s Classic London Dry Gin, Barrel Aged Gin and their excellent Navy Strength Gin.

The Salamanca Markets are worth a visit if you happen to be in Hobart on a Saturday morning but be warned, the crowds get pretty heavy particularly as the day progresses so get there early. There’s a variety of different things — heaps of Tasmania-​oriented souvenirs and whatnot, clothing, lollies, etc. If you’re into that stuff then great — this is your spot. But what you REALLY should be looking for is the Bruny Island Cheese. If there’s one thing that Tassie does really well, it’s cheese, so do yourself a favour and head out to the market and get some!
The setting is really charming too — I really enjoyed walking around the old buildings along Salamanca Place and through the nearby Arts Centre. There are probably very few buildings as old as these anywhere in Australia.

The Salamanca Markets are like most markets but they happen differently to others, rather than being in a special location where you would need to travel and then deal with big crowds this market is done on Salamanca Place, the street is closed to traffic and the stalls are set up on the street, the restaurants on the street are still open too.
If you have problems with large crowds and lots of people, maybe avoid this one, but if that isn’t an issue head down and have a good look around, there are all kinds of stalls as well as food stalls everywhere.
Parking spaces are limited to non-​existent so best to find a park elsewhere, get a hour in (there are special buses from many of the hotels to get you there with as little fuss as possible or another option is a taxi, getting a taxi back for us proved a bit tricky…
A good market setup with a great community feel which is a strong theme in Tasmania, recommend this to everyone.

If you are only in Hobart for Saturday then this is a must visit. If you are travelling through Hobart and are not here on a Saturday then that’s bad luck.
This is a terrific market full of wonderful local produce and arts and crafts. Not just a market for tourist but a place for locals to come an stock up.
Great place to pick up gifts for birthdays and Christmas or something to remember your time in Tasmania if you are a tourist.
The coffee by the way was fantastic

Ask for whole gravy beef if you don’t want cutlets. Fresh veggies with various types of herbs. Cheaper and high quality bananas than other shops in Hobart.
Also you don’t need to bring your own shopping bags since the shop provides reusable bags for free. (Note that lightweight plastic bags are banned from shops and supermarkets in Tasmania)

Great market with lots of local Tasmanian produce. Seek out the Bruny island cheese stand and stock up. Nice to wander through with good coffee

This is the most treasured of markets in Tasmania, if not the whole of Australia. I was surprised to read one Unilocaler’s review about ithe stuff being sold here as the equivalent to ‘The Reject shop’ ($ 2 chain store’s), there is no trashy stuff here at all, it is a requirement for all the stall holders to have high range gear, and the majority of stalls are locally sourced or made, from crafts to food.
It was not so long ago that I lived on this heaven of an Island and the Salamanca markets were the ideal spot I would go to pick up gifts for friends locally or across the water. Home made fudge in a variety of choices can be found here, some stunning items of clothing for women, or hats for the guys. Leather work, wood work, beeswax candles, and the I even had a favourite stall that sold flower boquets — mostly native — that were a great price and so popular that if I arrived too late then so did my opportunity.
There is also a gypsy caravan that sells delicious juices on site, a big hit in Winter is the hot apple juice with a touch of spice, very warming and will wake you up more than the shot of coffee.

THE thing you do on Saturday is Salamanca Market if you’re a visitor in town. If you’re not a visitor, it’s still a good place to go thrifting and pick up a week’s worth of fresh produce.
I can agree with some of the fewer starred reviews that yes it is just a farmer’s market, and once you’ve seen one you’ve seen them all. But remember that they do serve a purpose other than tourism.
No, I’m not going to buy that overly decorated wood carving of a bird or any of those other ridiculous knick-​knacks that seem to be standard to street market.
However, yes, I will buy a scarf, a dagwood dog, and a cheap little magnet of Wineglass Bay if its a better price than the tourism gift shops. And yes, I will peruse through the clothing racks and bins!
I stayed in Hobart for 3 weeks and visited Salamanca every Saturday. The first time deserved the full walk around. Then after that you’re a local. You know which booths are worth your time and not. A street market is only useful as much as your needs will allow it to be. So enjoy it!
If not, it’s a Saturday in Hobart. Throw yourself into one of the neighboring bars until your friends are ready to retrieve you. There’s no real down side to this situation.

Been to one trashy market and you’ve been to them all — so instead of a Redgum ashtray you can buy one here made from Huon Pine — so a 2000 year old tree instead of a 500 year old one. Usual crowds, usual picture frames, tarot readers, usual buskers — I don’t get the attraction — can’t you buy this stuff in Reject Shops? And to be honest why are we buying it at all???

Love.
Get there early to avoid the crowds!

As a non-​local, ie tourist, we love coming here when we visit Hobart — all of two times! Our focus is on the food. The lamb burger was worth coming back again for. Tasty lamb with lettuce and a tomato relish on a fresh bun ($ 10). We’ve also had a few other things but not as memorable as the lamb.

Ah, the tourist’s market. Still, you can’t help but love the Salamanca Market, tourist or not.
Set in the picturesque spot of Salamanca Place, with a breathtaking view of Mt Wellington peeking over the old sandstone buildings (best when it’s capped with a bit of snow), the markets are the perfect place to waste a lazy Saturday, wandering up and down the aisles and discovering all the treasures that Tasmania near and far has to offer.
It’s very easy to kill upwards of two hours just wandering from the top of the markets and past each stall. Good exercise — as long as you don’t collect a treat from every food vendor you pass. Herein lies your true challenge, as you’re faced with oven-​fired pizza, sweet and savoury crepes, german sausages, baked potatoes, turkish wraps, CHEESE, more flavours of fudge than you can poke a stick at, chocolate, lollies, help I can’t breathe. Even the drink selections are exciting — soft drinks, ginger beer, coffee coffee coffee, even a nip of scotch if you’re lucky. What, it’s for the wind chill…
I can’t recommend a specific coffee joint yet but I’m planning a «strictly coffee» visit one Saturday to come. There are around half a dozen different coffee vendors! There are two Tassie ginger beer contenders, one at each end of the markets (like the corners of a boxing ring?). My vote’s with Gillespie’s Ginger Beer, because I’ll be darned if I don’t like a bit of Extra Zing (and of course there’s always the option of walking around the market drinking the alcoholic one, which is actually the best of the bunch). The Tasmanian Chilli Beer Company’s drinks are also very good, but where Gillespie’s sticks with ginger, ginger, GINGER! the other guys have branched out and do a bunch of other flavours, all with a little chilli zing in them. The standard range is ginger beer, lime sparkling and raspberry sparkling, but this morning there were also bottles of raspberry/​blackberry and lime/​ginger on offer.
Of course, there’s more to the market than just the «eat right now» stuff. There are plenty of pantry stalls — sauces, jams, marinades, honey, tea (the Art of Tea even have their own Salamanca Blend). There’s a fresh fruit and veg corner, but I wouldn’t head to Salamanca for those supplies. Then there are the TRINKETS. The real market fodder! Many, many bric-​à-​brac stalls, and a look of specialised stalls — handmade clothing, jewellery, woodwork, cutlery turned into jewellery, metalwork…
You name it, there’s probably a stall at Salamanca selling it, and it’s probably been made or grown in Tasmania.