Lunch with a view? Grab a window table at this elegant, glass-fronted brasserie with awesome Derwent River views, inside Mt Nelson’s 120-year-old signalman’s house. Try the salmon cured in beetroot, vodka and gin with smashed potatoes and pickled cucumber-and-radish salad.
Signal Station Brasserie
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