Jackman & McRoss

Everything was absolutely delicious. If you only have time to visit one bakery or café in Hobart — make it this one!

This is like an old fashioned Devon café! But certainly serving interesting food! Have to try Szechuan quail on a lemon riccota smoked almond tart, very fascinating taste!

If you’re going for breakfast don’t get there late as the specials go quickly. There are no variations to what’s in the menu but apart from this its a great venue in a quaint little spot in Hobart. A short walk up from Salamanca it’s well worth the effort. Coffee is very good and the bakery section superb.

When I’m going for an extended car ride I need to pack a buffet. I’m just that kind of gal. So a stop at this highly recommended bakery was a no brainer. Try not to be so overwhelmed and stand in doorway with your mouth hanging open when you first walk in (not saying that it was me who did that but… okay, it was me) by the racks and cases full of breads, pastries, pies, tarts and eclairs.
This is the kind of bakery that when you order fruit toast, you’re getting a small loaf cut up, toasted and delivered to your table with lashings of butter. The pies were delicious, the tarts and slices amazing albeit too large to consume in a single sitting. The muffins were also quite good. By the time I actually made it to Port Arthur I was so full I thought I would burst. I’m actually disappointed I didn’t have a chance to go back for a sit down breakfast. I dare you to try and walk in to this Willy Wonka Chocolate Factory of bakeries and walk out with a single item.
As a final tip, you’re an idiot if you don’t try the salted caramel and dark chocolate slice. I’ll just leave it there.

I visited this excellent bakery twice on my Hobart visit & was pretty impressed each time.
For starters the bakery is located in a very sweet area of Hobart, just up from Salamanca place (about a 10 min walk up hill) which feels like a quaint English village. It has a smaller takeaway area with the breads, pies & cakes on display & a large bright seating area with natural light streaming in from the large street facing windows.
Everything is really reasonably priced ($ 12 for eggs benedict on brioche, $ 4.50 for a croissant with jam) & most importantly, delicious. If you’re looking for something healthy, this is not the place for you. But if you’re looking for exceptional pastries & sweet treats, get in ASAP. Although that being said, the portion sizes were just right & I didn’t come off any of the meals feeling over-​fed.
The croissant was maybe the best I’ve ever had– so buttery & soft! We also tried a lamb & rosemary pie (served with house made relish which was delicious), a berry cream cheese tart (spot on, not too sweet) & eggs Benedict (please remember this was two visits). Everything was excellent!
My only extremely small gripes was the Benedict had a touch too much sauce & the coffee wasn’t the best I’ve ever had (but still good).

Easy walk up the hill from the markets into Battery Point. quite and quant section of town away from the tourists… Coz…

Great place to have a nice breakfast at. The meals are very big and well priced for their quality. The croissant I ordered was delicious and flakey not to mention it was bigger than my face and the butter to go with it was very delightful. I did not prefer the baguette as it was not traditional nor good. I recommend this to people who love a nice French breakfast.

This place is a must if you are visiting! Super cute, I loved just sitting inside enjoying the fact I was in Hobart! The food was amazing — we ate a couple meals here and then took some pastries to go. I wish I could have brought a year supply back to the states, but alas I will have to visit again some day!

What a fabulous «proper» old bakery, with bread, pies, pasties and cakes made like they should be… :-)
Absolutely loved it… not inexpensive, but well worth it…
HIGHLY recommended!

You have a 50% chance ratio of good coffee and pastry here… I have order four times and out of the four times only twice has either the coffee or the pastry been good. not both at once. unfortunately its the service that’s horrible and not the product… today my coffee was way to hot and watery… for five dollars this is unacceptable… go at your own risk.

Okay if you’re going to be in Hobart for breakfast/​coffee/​brunch/​lunch/​cake, then get your butt to Jackman & McRoss asap!
We’d had a few people recommend this spot when we were planning a trip to Hobart, and I’m so glad we fit it in. The prices are so much better than Melbourne, everything we had was delicious and the croissants are about the size of your head.
Do yourself a favour.

So the food here is amazing. This is a little bakery/​café. And everything is to die for. Except the coffee. The coffee here was undrinkable. I literally throw it out. But I am extremely coffee snob. So I would not depend on my word for the coffee.
But the ignoring the coffee. This place is worth the visit. The almond croissant was a divine moment, where angels sing for you. I also tried the slated chocolate and walnut slice. And yes it is as good as it sounds.
Let’s just say this will be a regular visit when I come to Hobart.

Excellent food and treats. The staff is very friendly and helped me fuddle my way through what I wanted to order.

We went on a sunny Sunday morning and there was a slight wait but it was well worth it. Coffees were excellent. The food was delicious and the croissants were unreal with homemade jam. Even the kids found something to like and didn’t mind our second coffee!

We were incredibly impressed an this place should come up on Breakfast search as well.
Although dubious at first as the meals looked pre-​prepared in the glass, my wife an I both had incredible breakfasts. She had a delicious pie and I had a black bean, chorizo, spinach, poached egg deliciousness.
Then we had some take away treats from the bakery. The choco berry tart was the best ever. We also had 2 loaves of bread which lasted longer than expected on out overland track trek.
We are heading back when we come back through Hobart.

When I crave croissants, «Jackman & McRoss» comes to mind immediately. There are three types of croissants here. Although all are excellent, I am addicted to the almond ones. These are so big that a croissant is too much for my breakfast but it is too delicious to be left over even a tiny bit.

Should have listened to a local when they said this place was overhyped and touristy.
I’m not sure if my friend and I just ordered the wrong things or if there’s a speciality we should have gotten, but both of us were disappointed with this place.
My coffee was weak and lacked flavour– I expect bakeries to have great coffee to go with baked goods but this was akin to the coffee you’d find in an airport kiosk.
The bacon, avocado and egg roll that I went for tasted like it had been made off-​site. The eggs were rubbery and the roll severely hard, as if it had been sitting behind the counter for several days.
Ask a local where to go and skip this joint– not worth it at all!

Let me first preface this with prior to 2013, I had never been to Tasmania but Jackman & McRoss alone would be enough to convince me to move there.
First off, lets start with the price of things. Where (in Melbourne anyway) could you get a full sized meal, drink and dessert pastry for under $ 20?!
Secondly, the food here is easily food that you would pay more than $ 20 for. I went twice when I was in Tas. All of the food that I had was great — fresh produce, appropriately flavoured etc. The pie that I had was great, from memory I went with something quite traditional and it was easily one of the best pies I’d ever had. The «side» salad really was a meal in itself. All the veg. And there was the soup I got, beef and lentils, it was more like a stew and an amazing one at that. Then there’s the dessert pastries. Fresh strawberry vanilla slice?!
I’ll stop drooling and reminiscing now.
Franchise, but not, please? :)

Service can be a little slow and it’s generally crowded, but the food and drinks are excellent! Seriously, their breakfasts are as good as it gets, in my opinion!
And their pastries… drool… So good!
In fact, make my sister bring me a caramel slice from Jackman and McRoss whenever she comes to the USA!

When I first visited Hobart, Jackman & McRoss was on my to-​do list. I only had one morning in Hobart but it was occupied with the Salamanca Market followed by a traipse up a long and narrow set of stairs to Hampden Rd (worth a visit in itself for the classic architecture) to this famed bakery.
I was not disappointed (and continue to not be disappointed on my return visits since I’ve moved here). The cabinets are full of delicious and ridiculous treats, both savoury and sweet. The buttery croissants are as big as your head. Savoury tarts come with (for example) slabs of pork belly slapped on top. Sweet tarts may be filled with things like white chocolate and mandarin. Everything is delicious and the prices aren’t ridiculous.
I haven’t yet dined in here because it’s always so busy (another good sign), but Jackman & McRoss continues to delight and excite this bakery fan.