Shoreline Hotel Howrah: Reviews, Menu & Room Prices

Searching for the Shoreline Hotel usually means one of two things: weighing it as a 3-star base near Hobart, or figuring out what its restaurant, café and sports bar actually serve. The hotel’s Dining Room runs Monday to Thursday from 5:00pm to 10:00pm (The Shoreline Hotel), and the whole complex sits at 10 Shoreline Drive, Howrah. This review sets the official details against Tripadvisor and Hotels.com review evidence, so you can decide which visit is right for you.

Last checked: 2026-10-13

Property type: 3-star hotel with restaurant, sports bar and café in Howrah · Location: Howrah, Greater Hobart, Tasmania · Nearest beach: Howrah Beach, a 15-minute stroll away · Guest rating: 3.5 of 5 on Tripadvisor; ranked #2 of 8 Howrah restaurants

Shoreline Hotel key facts

Shoreline Hotel Howrah

The Shoreline Hotel plays several roles at once on Howrah’s Shoreline Drive. Its official listing describes five distinct on-site venues — a Dining Room, Café, Lounge, Terrace and Sports Bar — which is a broad mix for what Agoda classifies as a 3-star property. The address is 10 Shoreline Drive, Howrah, a beachside suburb in Greater Hobart rather than the Hobart city centre; that is why accommodation platforms file the property under “Shoreline Hotel, Hobart”.

Tasmania’s official tourism listing is warm, calling the Shoreline the best hotel in Tasmania and a local favourite, and it dates the hotel’s establishment in Howrah to 1966. That puts the venue at roughly 60 years of service as of 2026 — context that helps explain the “local favourite” framing. The same listing points diners to the Shoreline Bistro for pizza, steak and chicken schnitzel, served for lunch and dinner daily.

“Our menu focuses on seasonal, fresh ingredients striving to use Tasmanian local produce.”

— The Shoreline Hotel, official Dining Room page

Its Dining Room page pairs the Tasmanian-produce promise above with a practical family hook: a children’s outdoor playground adjacent to suitable dining areas. Both details matter if you are arriving with kids or hoping to eat well without leaving Howrah.

What this means: the Shoreline is better understood as a dining-and-drinking complex with rooms attached than as a conventional hotel. Judge it on both halves, because the evidence on each side differs.

Shoreline Hotel Howrah menu

On the menu question, the clearest independent summary comes from Discover Tasmania: the Shoreline Bistro serves pizza, steak and chicken schnitzel for lunch and dinner daily. That is classic hotel-pub fare, and it matches how the hotel spreads its offer across multiple rooms.

“The Shoreline has many dining options from a pizza on the terrace, a pub meal in the Sports Bar or a classic dining experience with your family in The Dining Room.”

— Tripadvisor listing for The Shoreline Hotel

Read the outlets separately and the logic becomes clearer. The Café is open seven days a week, with cabinet food such as cakes, slices and biscuits. The Dining Room runs Monday to Thursday 5:00pm–10:00pm, Friday and Saturday 12:00pm–10:00pm, and Sunday 12:00pm–3:00pm — and its published menu is labelled a sample, with the hotel warning that items change regularly. The Sports Bar picks up the pub-meal end, and the Terrace handles the pizza side.

For readers comparing similar Tasmanian pub-hotel dining, our Blue Waters Orford: Bistro Hours, Accommodation & Riverfront Access review covers another coastal venue’s bistro, accommodation and riverfront positioning.

The implication: “what’s good at the Shoreline” depends on which room you choose. Pick the outlet to match the occasion, then judge the experience accordingly.

Shoreline Hotel Restaurant

Tripadvisor categorises the Shoreline as a bar/pub serving Australian food, with lunch, dinner and brunch service and dietary tags for vegetarian-friendly, vegan and gluten-free options. In the retrieved listing, the venue carries a 3.5-out-of-5 rating from 192 reviews and sits at #2 of 11 restaurants in Howrah.

The written reviews are mixed in a specific way. Some diners praise family-friendly service, value and menu choice; others report slow service or dissatisfaction with particular meals. Because the comments do not reliably name which outlet the diner used, the scores are hard to pin to a single room.

“The menu below is a sample menu and items do change regularly.”

— The Shoreline Hotel, official Dining Room page

Across the accommodation side, the numbers differ. Hotels.com reports an 8.8-out-of-10 score from 224 guest reviews and describes the property as having three restaurants. The gap between the two scores suggests accommodation guests and restaurant reviewers may be rating different experiences — one side judges a bed for the night, the other judges a meal.

The pattern: treat the 3.5 as a restaurant score and the 8.8 as a hotel score. Neither number describes the whole property on its own.

Shoreline Hotel Howrah reviews

For a first-time visitor, the useful question is not “good or bad?” but “what do the reviews actually describe?”. On Tripadvisor, the 3.5-out-of-5 average from 192 reviews and the #2-of-11 Howrah ranking place the Shoreline at the top of a small local dining pool — Howrah’s Tripadvisor list included 11 restaurants in the retrieved snapshot.

Hotel.com.au’s listing corroborates the essentials: the same address, the same dining spaces and the same broad menu categories (Hotel.com.au), which gives you a second listing to compare against the official site.

For a point of comparison with a larger central Hobart property, our Hotel Grand Chancellor Hobart Reviews: What Guests Really Say looks at how a bigger city hotel scores with guests. Back at the Shoreline, the 8.8-out-of-10 guest score from 224 Hotels.com reviews is the highest rating across the sources reviewed here.

Shoreline Hotel specifications