Sweetbreads Out of Season: Pat Collins’ Bistro and Hobart’s Brief Bohemia by Jim Marwood | PB Format:Paperback They called themselves ‘Tassie’s whale

They called themselves ‘Tassie’s whale boys’ and this is their story

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Sweetbreads Out of Season: Pat Collins’ Bistro and Hobart’s Brief Bohemia by Jim Marwood | PB Format:Paperback They called themselves ‘Tassie’s whaleTasmanias first full liquor licence for a restaurant went to John Licandros Martini in Burnie. That was in 1968, but there had been wine on the menu at The Bistro (a basement restaurant under the Ship Hotel in Hobart) since 1961. There was nowhere like The Bistro and nobody like its charismatic matre d, Pat Collins, by turns charming, annoying and shocking to his drinkers and diners. A motley mob of gregarious lawyers, politicians, journalists,