Mr. Good Guy Hobart — Restaurant in Hobart

We had been looking forward to trying this restaurant for awhile so we booked for our 21st anniversary dinner. We arrived and were shown to our table. We asked to look at the drinks list before deciding. At this point we weren't given the menus so just sat there. We finally discovered that the paper place mat could be turned over to show the menu. We immediately saw the banquet option for $65 so decided to go for that as we like to trust the chefs and have always enjoyed degustations and banquets at other venues where you normally get a wide variety of dishes which represent the venue. We then waited for some time before getting someone's attention to take our drinks order and we ordered food at the same time. The banquet consisted of 1 bao bun each (pork), 1 rice paper roll each (tofu, dry and falling apart), 1 entree serve of salt and pepper calamari to share (tasty and well cooked) and 1 main serve of marinated chicken with rice to share (1 thigh piece and 2 legs). At this point the head waiter came over and told us we were ready for the last course which was dessert. He left to get our next drink order. We were very perplexed as to the value for $130 combined and the amount of food received. We called him over and asked for clarification, explaining what we had already had. He told us there were definitely more courses before dessert and left to talk to the kitchen. That gave us hope. The only other course that came out was a main chicken and potato curry with rice and roti (tasty) before we were both served a mango sticky rice dessert (absolutely delicious and authentic). The total price if we had ordered all dishes separately would have been $143, we paid $130 and received very basic and plain dishes compared to what was on the menu. It definitely didn't showcase their offerings. I would not recommend the venue based on the food we were served. I did however discover galangal gin and absolutely loved that - sadly the highlight...

Mr. Good Guy is a South-East Asian themed restaurant in the Ibis Hotel, Macquarie St Hobart. After an excellent Lunar New Year banquet there recently, my wife and I decided to try it again. The ambience of the place is very nice, the staff friendly and the background music is pleasant and not dominating. The acoustics are excellent and it is not difficult to conduct a conversation. We ordered Gadu Gadu and Vietnamese Vegetarian Rice Paper rolls for entree. Both were excellent - very tasty, well presented and very generous serves. The mains were similarly successful. We ordered Crispy Fried Eggplant and Beef Rendang, both of which were very tasty. The Rendang was hot enough to be interesting but well within western tolerance! Just right! Despite the suggestion of the waiter that we would have enough rice, I ordered a side of steamed rice, which did prove to be redundant. It was good of him to give such advice and I will take it next time! We finished up with Mr. Good Guy's ABC - a remarkable dessert mainly of shaved ice, with jelly, tapioca, condensed milk , lychees and more. I had the banana roti pancakes with cinnamon. Both were very nice. Drinks were good and well priced. Wine offerings are of very good range and quality. The cocktail menu is excellent and also well priced. My wife enjoyed a Singapore Sling which she described as being as good any she had tasted in Singapore. All in all, a very pleasant meal and we will definitely dine at Mr. Good Guy's again! Footnote: last night had a similarly good meal at Mr Good Guy's, but I do question your idea of a 15oz beer. What I received was, despite the waitresses assurance otherwise, a 10oz, not a 15oz - which is what I paid for. How do I know? Well, apart from years of experience with 10oz glasses, when I refilled the empty glass from a full 330ml bottle, it filled the glass completely....

The restaurant has potentials but it needs to grow up from its 'unique teenager phase'. The place is basically the main and only restaurant of a major hotel (IBIS) in Hobart, where I've stayed for 2 weeks. The breakfast is actually good: the classic international buffet breakfast and the coffee is really good. However, breakfast aside, the restaurant is a totally different place for dining. It's a south-east Asian fusion restaurant. Not cheap, not classy. Average. But let's get to the main problem: for as much as I love SE Asian cuisine, the choise starts already quite narrow for being the hotel only restaurant, but it gets worse. I felt like the menu is quite poorly balanced and gets quite redundant, yet at the same time too experimental. Exactly the same thing happens for the bar with the choice of cocktails and drinks. The food itself wasn't bad at all, let's say average, but again, the choice of food and the being inside a major hotel, that is not even super central, makes the restaurant definitely not a first choice for those who aren't strictly staying at the hotel, nor for those who are just passing by. Therefore it should be more international, especially considering it's already a fusion, or have at least a more balanced choice (there's so much more to pick from within SE Asian cousin alone). And by the way, it was the busiest days of the year in Hobart yet I haven't seen any Asians staying at the hotel for 2 weeks.

This has stopped me from dining in basically most of the days of my 2 weeks stay. Same thing for the after dinner at the bar, I had to walk around for kms to find a better option for dinner and cocktails while I could have just relaxed in the comfort of my hotel if the choice was a little bit...