Harbour Lights Café is an Italian cafe combining quality food with relaxing waterfront views and a friendly atmosphere.

Over thirteen years of operation has earned us a great reputation amongst regulars and tourists alike. You never know who you may run into on any given day – from one of our entertaining locals to a great sporting hero.

And during the Sydney to Hobart, you’ll be fighting off the yachties to get a taste of our famous Tassie scallop pies. Serving hearty breakfasts and lunches made with local seasonal products, a great kids menu and takeaway choices including pizza, pasta, wraps or paninis. Teamed with a freshly roasted coffee from our extensive menu or T2 leaf tea, Harbour Lights Cafe is the place to be

a short history

From 1855 until the 1930s, there were a number of small foods processing and wholesaling enterprises in the Cove. Factories producing jams, fruit, pulp, bread, butter and flour mingled their rich smells with the salty sea air. Some shopkeepers also lived on their premises like John Callaghan’s family, whose business premises and home was next door to R.R Rex’s Chandlery in Morrison Street. The Callaghan’s business which was operating as Callaghan’s Butchery is today known as Harbour Lights Café and has been owned by Robert Marino since 1997.