The Coffee Shack — Restaurant in Tasmania

Good breakfast on the Esplanade

S42°9.207' E 145°19.702' This ‘cute-as-a-button’ cafe shack or shed is opposite the cruise terminal on the Strahan’s Esplanade and opens at 6am. It has its own small car park next to Bushman’s Bar & Café. Inside, there is space for eight people, but outside there is more.

The Coffee Shack, of course, serves good coffee accompanied by homemade muffins, cakes and slices from the blackboard menu. We ordered toast with ham, cheese and tomato and toast with avocado, tomato and cheese. The toast was a little too charred. The macchiato was good.

With Bushman Bar & Café closed next door, it got busier in the Coffee Shack, but managed the extra guests very well.

For all guests in self-contained accommodation, the Coffee Shack is a good place to start the day....

Famished from a long journey, one that seemed to last a lifetime, I stumbled upon the sleepy little town of Strahan. Now me, ever the sceptic, was not quite ready to let my guard down, when who should I happen upon but a lonely vagrant. He told me stories of the most amazing food and service he had received in his years of living on the road. I followed his advice and made my way to the Coffee Shack. Let me just say, I was not disappointed. The coffee and food were the stuff of legends. I often wonder about that vagrant and his amazing advice, I wonder where I might have ended up if I had not run into him on that fateful day, changing my...

Before the 4hr drive to Hobart, get your coffee here. Very decent coffee (I’m a snob) and yummy banana-dates-walnut bread. Pretty pricey at $20 for the large long black and the bread, but the West Coast needs all the economic support it can get right now as they are being hit the worst of all places in Tassie by the post covid recession.

They did ask me to keep a secret and that was to not tell anyone they gave me two slices for the price of one because they were closing soon. An excellent Tassie business, I just hope...