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EATING
Scruffy Surry Hills' transformation into Sydney's foodie nirvana was sudden, roughly commencing with the 1999
opening of the Eastern Distributor, which made peaceful tree-lined backstreets out of Crown and Bourke Sts (once
the main routes to the airport). Some would suggest that rising rents mark the start of a decline, but many of the
city's top-rated restaurants still reside here. For a cheap vegetarian meal, try the Indian eateries along Cleveland
St. Stanley St has a few Italian places, while Victoria St offers a heady blend of ethnic cuisines.
Surry Hills
ARGENTINIAN
PORTEÑO$$
homage to the foods of South America, and they've taken loads of fans along for the ride.
Bring a huge appetite and a posse; you can only book for five or more. Don't miss the mag-
nificent eight-hour wood-fired suckling pig.
LONGRAIN$$$
( 9280 2888;
www.longrain.com
; 85 Commonwealth St; lunch $27-48, dinner $31-44; lunch Fri, dinner daily;
Central)
Inside a century-old, wedge-shaped printing-press building, diners slurp Lon-
grain's signature modern Thai specialities, such as pork and prawn-filled eggnet or cara-
melised pork hock with chilli vinegar. Sip a Thai-inflected cocktail at the bar afterwards.
THAI
BAR H$$
pork buns and wontons served at this sexy, shiny, black-walled corner eater are a revela-
tion. Larger dishes - pork belly, steamed fish and roast duck - are just as good.
CHINESE
HOUSE$
sticky Sydney night, House's lantern-strung courtyard really feels like Southeast Asia, not
least because of the constant traffic passing and the chicken embryo on the menu. Special-
THAI
