| Address: | 89 Goulburn St, Hobart |
| Phone No: | 03 6236 9306 |
| Web Site: | |
| Description: | Small cafe |
| Comment: | Casual, trendy, fresh food. Eat in or takeaway. Limited menu of freshly baked/cooked items continually coming out of the kitchen. Small venue, but worth going there. |
| Rita Rating: | *** |
| Links: | |
| 02-01-2007 | Pigeon Hole (Menulog Restaurant Guide) |
| 05-07-2008 | Pigeon Hole (Tassiegal blog) |
| 19-03-2009 | Macarons at Pigeon Hole |
Monday, 2 June 2008
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I met Luke Burgess’ friend Jay a few weeks ago while they were shopping in Tas Hotel and Club, setting up for the imminent opening of Jay’s new little venture in Goulburn Street, on the site of the previous Jean-Pascals. Jay called me on Friday to say he has now opened up his eatery, called PIGEON HOLE, and is looking forward to a visit from anyone wanting gorgeous paninis, soup, coffees, friands, crostadas etc. They are open Tuesdays – Saturdays from 7.30 till round 4.30.
Jay has been in Tasmania for around 3 ½ years. He has previously been at Restaurant 373 and Meadowbank, and before that was in Queensland. Luke will continue to help him out at the Pigeon Hole for the time being, so why not pop in and say hi to both the boys?
Terrific Tucker
PIGEON Hole is a very apt name for a new eatery in Goulburn St near the corner of Barrack St. Jay Patey,
formerly of Restaurant 373 in North Hobart, has opened up the former Jean-Pascal Patisserie so it now has about
four times as many seats, though still only 16. Helping in the kitchen is Luke Burgess, formerly of Pecora at
Grandvewe Cheese, Birchs Bay.
Pigeon Hole is open from 7.30am to 4pm Tuesday to Saturday. I enjoyed a slow-cooked shoulder of pork in a panini
with kale dressed with a quince aioli. Oxtail soup with cannellini beans was tempting.
Yaa Pigeon Hole. I like this place but come on guys, what’s with the opening days? ? In a fantastic attempt at keeping Hobart entrenched in the 80s they’re closed Sunday and Monday! Sunday’s are sooo slow in Hobart - there’s nothing you’d want to go to open, you’ll get loads of trade. Sunday is my only day off and I just want a decent coffee!!! Please please please reconsider Sundays...
From A Guide To Tasting Tasmania - Graeme Phillips
Reviewed 27 June 2008
Pigeon Hole Café
93 Goulburn St, West Hobart. Unlicensed
Tuesday to Saturday 7.30am to 4.30 pm.
This a retro-styled hole-in-the-wall collective of ex’s – the location is ex-Jean-Pascal Patisserie; Jay Pattie, the owner/chef, is ex-Restaurant 373; the smiling waitress/barista is Kelly White, ex-Kafe Kara; and the occasional assistants are Katrina and Luke, ex-Pecora.
And, given that talented and very experienced line up, it’s no surprise that Pigeon Hole is also excellent. Not in any super-trendy, knock-your-socks-off-way, but in the understated and unpretentious goodness and simple produce-driven quality of everything they’re doing.
Everything, from the daily bread to nostalgic biscuits, except for Andy Abarmovich’s superb chocolates and nougat, are made in house. Lots of the ingredients come from local gardens. Lemons and rhubarb come from an organic farm in Craddock, their quinces from a couple of ancient quince trees. They shop at the Hill Street Grocer and at the Italian Pantry in Federal Street. Authentic Italian buffalo grana appears in their panini and as garnishing for soups. Their breakfast beans are slow cooked to perfection flavoured with a smoked pork hock and smoked paprika.
The lunch menu is built around panini of the sort you find in bars everywhere around Italy with neat little touches that you don’t – meatballs with passata; casalinga salame with mozzarella and parsley salsa; mushrooms with ricotta saltata and onion agrodolce (sweet/sour). The day’s soup when I visited was a wonderfully rich, smooth amalgam of parsnip and cannelloni beans scattered and perfumed with lightly toasted almond flakes.
Then to finish, or as in-betweens with coffee, are their little cakes, biscuits, friandes and savoury bites. Their bread is among the very best in town and they bake triple quantities on Saturdays – but that means you still need to get there early before they run out.
To rave would be against the spirit of the place. It is simply very good and quite different, a very welcome and welcoming alternative to anywhere else around town.
Dave how does a room with no windows have a window that weeps. Come to think of it I actually sat in the window yesterday and had the Home made beans for Breakfast..yum
Dropped in for breakfast but they don’t do a hot breakfast - whats the point in opening early if your mainly serving lunch stuff!!!
It is also a bit bleak sitting in a windowless room.
The weeping window must makes it seem like every day is a wet day outside.
Brave Dave
Ok you are right, it does have a window - almost all of the tables and chairs are located down the back of the cafe in an enclosed area with little or no natural light as the kitchen and front counter take up most of the area around the front weeping window.
I went in expecting a "normal" cafe type food - I was after a cooked breakfast and was disappointed that it didn’t offer it.
I guess as it’s a small cafe it can not offer a large selection of food.
A selection of baked goods on the counter are uncovered - in my home town of Melbourne the health dept would have required them to be covered is it different here in Tasmania ??
Brave Dave
In answer to your question, Brave Dave, our Health Department here are pretty tough, so I would think the answer is NO! But there are only a few people to do a huge job in our small city (full of food outlets!) so I would say that having passed the original health requirements, PH will operate under the radar for a while. But I agree that food just sitting there on the counter inviting someone to sneeze on it is not an ideal situation!
Best food handling practice?? - just cos they do it doesn’t mean you have too.
brave dave.......you ever been to a nice little hole in the wall panini bar in florence, turin or bologna? well it’s just like the pigeon hole, only it’s in tassie. as for food uncovered, when you’re back in melbourne visiting the oldies check out the uncovered antipasto at journal canteen or perhaps enoteca, if you have time also have a quick sneeze on the pastries at d’chirico.
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