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The Great Lunch Conspiracy: What Have I Ever Done to Geeveston's Cafe Owners?

The first staging point on the Hobart waterfront.

What have I done to the cafe owners of Geeveston that they hate me so much?  Regular readers may remember my frustration at never, ever being able to find Masaaki's Sushi open, let alone get a table there (please see: https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7165367970551834236#editor/target=post;postID=6286470083834570589;onPublishedMenu=overviewstats;onClosedMenu=overviewstats;postNum=1;src=postname).  This time, I didn't even try.











Now it's the Old Bank of Geeveston and the newly-opened Baker and Co, situated in what used to me a Mitre 10 hardware store, that have conspired to leave me hungry and irritable.  On a Sunday!  Yes, two of the town's best cafes were closed on a busy Sunday with the town spilling over with people!!  And here was me thinking the town was doing it tough after the recent catastrophic fires that had devastated hundreds of square kilometers of bushland, destroyed houses and threatened Geeveston village itself.  

The second staging point near the Fork in The Road car park, Kingston.
Oh, well.  Their loss.  

 Unperturbed, my fellow car enthusiasts and our various rides - a monstrous De Tomaso Pantera, an owned-since-new Honda Integra R-Type, an understated XR2 Capri Turbo, a skilfully restored-by-owner Datsun 280ZX, a lovely straight Fiat 132, plus me and my 1975 Galant hardtop - headed to the nearby Kermandie Hotel.  Our gain!  





The Kermandie was doing both a carvery and a la carte dining on the day.  I have a bit of a carvery-phobia, possibly related to the educational institution that I attended in the early 1980s and definitely because I intensely dislike buffets (carveries and buffets being the same thing in my book!).  Anyway, those of us that did brave the former claimed it was really good, albeit a bit cold.  I can personally attest to the excellence of the succulent pork belly, with its thick, brittle layer of delightfully salty crackling, and accompaniment of spiced red cabbage and creamy potato mash.  My fellow al la carters seemed to enjoy their meals, too. 

The Kermandie Hotel carpark. 




From Kermandie, we retraced our route back to Vinces Saddle where we turned left and enjoyed a spirited run through the bendy bits, before stopping in for a couple of frothies at the ever-popular (and seemingly always open!) Longley International Hotel.  It was a great way to top off a rather pleasant outing, even if Geeveston's cafe operators didn't want our money!



U M P H

 (uppermiddlepetrolhead.blogspot.com.au.)  

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