By Tess Scholfield-Peters New Italian joints are popping up weekly in postcode 2010, and you won’t hear any complaints from us. The latest to open its doors is Crown Street’s Pizza Fritta 180 by Via Napoli’s Luigi Esposito, whose Neapolitan flash-fried pizza is a first for Sydney. Anyone who was out and about in Surry […]
Life Imitates Art
By Eva Lewkowicz In Crown Street’s The Green Room There’s nothing like that feeling of opening your front door, dropping your bags, sliding off your shoes and ensconcing yourself in the cool calm quiet of home. The patter of furry paws might sidle up to you in greeting, reaching up for a scratch behind the ear. […]
Brand X back in action
Since 2005 Brand X has been on a mission to convert Sydney’s disused and vacant spaces into creative havens. Their collection of subsidised spaces gives artists the chance to rehearse, record, perform and build their creative enterprises, but due to Covid-19, all Brand X venues and programs were forced to shut down. “We lost customers […]
Gin paradise arrives on Crown Street
Four Pillars’ founder Stu Gregor blames his pathological love for gin on his mother, who from a young age began teaching him to make gin and tonics. His gin fanaticism is shared by co-founders Matt Jones and Cameron Mackenzie, who together have been distilling gin out of the Yarra Valley since 2013. Four Pillars distillery […]
Rough Edges Adapts
We’re all doing it tough at the moment, but none more so than our homeless and marginalised communities. Since the pandemic broke out there has been a significant spike in new faces at shelters across Sydney, Rough Edges’ Jen Webster told Urban Village. Since 1996 Rough Edges has operated as a drop-in centre and community […]
Jacqui and the Wandering Nomad
Nomad restaurant has – accidentally – lived up to its name, and has been something of a wandering tribe in the Sydney restaurant scene. Beginning in Foster Street, Surry Hills, Nomad was in limbo after a fire destroyed much of its previous home but fortuitously the former Long Grain in Commonwealth Street became available last […]
Surry Hills LIVE – NOW STREAMING
Surry Hills Live has evolved into SURRY HILLS LIVE STREAMING! In response to concern about public safety at live music venues in light of the pandemic Surry Hills Creative Precinct and Music for Trees will now take all remaining shows online, for an incredible new LIVE experience – and you won’t even need to leave […]
Serendipity
Presented by Surry Hills Creative Precinct and The Sydney Connection Supported by City of Sydney The best table in the restaurant isn’t in the restaurant it’s at Ward Park, Devonshire Street on a lazy summer’s afternoon. We’re bringing dining to the park in one mammoth event celebrating all the diverse and tasty cuisine our hood has […]
The Essential Ingredient + Yulli’s
Presented by Surry Hills Creative Precinct and The Sydney Connection Supported by City of Sydney The best table in the restaurant isn’t in the restaurant it’s at Ward Park, Devonshire Street on a lazy summer’s afternoon. We’re bringing dining to the park in one mammoth event celebrating all the diverse and tasty cuisine our hood has […]
Brix + Four Pillars + Yulli’s Brews
Presented by Surry Hills Creative Precinct and The Sydney Connection Supported by City of Sydney The best table in the restaurant isn’t in the restaurant it’s at Ward Park, Devonshire Street on a lazy summer’s afternoon. We’re bringing dining to the park in one mammoth event celebrating all the diverse and tasty cuisine our hood has […]
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