Ready, set, Taste

Prue O'Shanesy, of Josef Chromy Wines, and Isaac Vitesnik, of Mountain Pepper Pizza, show their tasty wares. Picture: SAM ROSEWARNE

TASMANIA'S most popular food and wine festival will open its gates at 11am today, with about 300,000 people expected to pass through the gates in the next seven days.

Between 80,000 and 100,000 of those patrons are expected to hail from interstate and overseas.

Festival co-chairs and Hobart City Council aldermen Marti Zucco and Peter Sexton said this year's festival would have more seating, stalls and toilets and would take up more space than ever.

"People can expect a much more interesting experience this year," Ald Sexton said.

"We have expanded the festival out to 28,000 square metres across a variety of different surfaces --indoor and outdoor."

This year the festival will have 66 stallholders spread over 88 sites -- an increase of 10 stallholders on last year.

Festival organisers have negotiated their liquor licence so that fences around the site can be lowered to create a greater link between the main shed and Salamanca.

"We are trying to embrace the whole of Salamanca," Ald Zucco said.

Ald Sexton said the greatest change had been made to the area referred to as The Winery in 2011.

The area has been rebadged The Pier, floored with decking and opened up to the waterfront.

"Last year this was a relatively small area with an uneven floor -- and a dark space with a poor mix of food and beverages and unhappy stallholders and patrons," Ald Sexton said yesterday.

Ald Zucco said talk of charging an admission fee in the future was off the table.

"What we have done is incorporate a summer festival into the Taste," he said.

"You have to look at the cost versus the return."

Ald Zucco said the estimated cost of $600,000 for the Taste Festival included the New Year's Eve fireworks and the Kids in the Park program on Parliament lawns, which would go on with or without the Taste.

For details on opening hours, click here.

matthew.smith@news.com.au

• For a full list of stalls and what they have to offer, check out today's Mercury. 

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