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cd, 2d and 3d. 210507F-‘SMH’-HaberfieldNSW-Happyfield-yellow.cafe.
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– Mama’s Roll (Vietnamese street food)
– Bella Vita (cafe+restaurant)
– McDonald’s
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Marrickville Rd, Marrickville (Sydney, NSW). Delish, then:
– Oporto
-7Eleven
Beyond the medical clinic, the bistro is part of Royal Exchange Hotel.
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c. 210115F-Fairfax-Domain-Newcastle(NSW)-cafe
Sydney’s best new sandwiches 2021. Callan Boys June 14 2021
8. The Philly cheesesteak at Harvey’s Hot Sandwiches, Parramatta, $16
A real deal cheesesteak should probably be made with thinly sliced rib-eye rather than shaved scotch fillet, but the new Parramatta Square precinct is a long way from Philadelphia, so what the hey? Harvey’s serves a delicious version of Pennsylvania’s least subtle sandwich regardless: a long roll loaded with well-done steak, grilled onions, hot pepper sauce, and enough cheese to make a pizza pie blush. There’s a next-level ham and salad sub worth your hard-earned too, and I dig the art deco vinyl booths and chrome-edged tables a lot. Harvey’s, hurrah.
Shop 4, Parramatta Square, Parramatta, 02 9169 0838, harveyshotsandwiches.com
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Sydney lockdown: Top restaurant takeaway options to try MEGAN JOHNSTON September 16 2021
Harvey’s Hot Sandwiches, Parramatta.
Parramatta’s hot sandwich joint is serving up big and tasty takeaway subs every day of the week. Choose your favourite fillings: brisket, pastrami or Nashville hot chicken, or try their signature Philly cheesesteak, muffuletta or beef dip. Delivery via DoorDash, Menulog or UberEats, or pick up from 12 Darcy Street, Parramatta Square. See instagram.com/harveyshotsandwiches
Subs from Harvey’s Hot Sandwiches at the new Parramatta Square development. Photo: Nikki To
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Brekkie, brunch or lunch at Happyfield leaves a warm glow LENNY ANN LOW January 2 2021
The fried eggs and toast, with avocado and bacon. Photo: Janie Barrett
A visit to Happyfield, Haberfield’s newest, possibly only Northern American diner-style, cafe, is like walking into the sun.
Ringed by yellow outdoor chairs and mustard-edged windows, this dashing corner restaurant in the heart of Italian suburbia glows.
Inside, in an airy wood-floored space, are padded banquettes the colour of maple syrup, upholstered bar stools in a sunshine hue.
Sweet stack pancakes. Photo: Janie Barrett
Menus come in yellow leather slip cases and even looking up is cheering with Happyfield’s pressed metal ceiling painted an egg yolk colour.
A curved and chrome-edged wooden counter is the anchor point for smiling, moustachioed baristas. The exposed brick walls softly lit by Art Deco pendant lights and every table has salt and pepper shakers with yellow tops.
Co-owned by Chris Theodosi and Canadian Jesse Orleans, who met while working at the Grounds of Alexandria, Happyfield opened in October.
The bright and colourful Haberfield venue. Photo: Janie Barrett
It’s increasingly popular and filled with all ages, including kids, older folks grazing on steak and egg with grilled gem lettuce and pancake fans in exercise gear sipping Margarita cocktails.
Pancakes are billed as "proper" here. Made to Orleans’s specifications they are light but not stodgy, perfectly round and easy to fold in layers onto a fork.
We order a Sweet Stack, a fine mix of two pancakes, charred banana, blueberries, strawberries, whipped cream and a jar of Canadian maple syrup.
The pancakes are good though verging on pricey. An order of Happiest Eggs, two perfectly fried sunny side ups with toast and Pepe Saya butter, come with three sides: fat ribbons of smoked Canadian bacon, half an avocado and sauteed mushrooms. It is hard not to eat like a wild banshee.
The sides, which take pride of place on Happyfield’s menu, are almost worth the trip.
A meal of house made hashbrowns with chilli mayonnaise, coils of salmon smoked in-house and baked cranberry and Great Northern beans paired with chef Orleans’s tomato sauce is entirely possible. All in all our dishes are a proper diner brekkie, even at 1pm on a hot summer’s afternoon.
Pink juice. Photo: Janie Barrett
Another ray of sunshine is the service. Staff are cheery and completely in-sync. We’re never forgotten and the food, along with hot drinks and a Pink Juice featuring watermelon, strawberry and mint, is swiftly delivered.
And, as Happyfield is licensed, adults can pair their eggs, pancakes, burgers, mortadella rolls, pasta or Barramundi with one of six cocktails, or nine varieties of wine, beer or cider from Australia, New Zealand and France.
Five Senses coffee comes white, black, espresso, iced, filter and batch, with a bottomless option, and there’s a rainbow of juice choices, lemonades, iced teas and shakes including a hedonistic-looking sticky date version.
Life needs cheer and brightness and softly upholstered banquettes on which to eat piles of excellent smokey Canadian pancakes.
The sunshine flavours of Happyfield last long after leaving, particularly as, if you want a copy of the bill, it’s printed on yellow paper.
The low-down
Happyfield
Where: 96 Ramsay Street, Haberfield, 9716 5168, happyfield.com.au
Main attraction: A buzzing inner west diner with pick-me-up cheerfulness, dapper golden yellow decor and strong attention to detail in table service, menu variety and coffee choices.
Must-try dish: Any amount of eggs (sunny side up recommended), the Grounds sourdough toast and as many sides as possible, specifically smokey Canadian bacon, potato hash browns, thin French fries and hot smoked salmon.
Insta-worthy dish: McLovin Muffin, an English muffin filled with two chicken sausage patties, layers of egg, chipotle mayonnaise and cheddar cheese, wrapped in paper with cartoon pancake sticker.
Drinks: Five Senses coffee $4-$7; tea $4; juices $8; lemonades $7; shakes $9; kombucha $7.50; soft drinks $4.50; iced tea $6; sparkling water $4-$5; cocktails $12-$17; wine $8-$54; beer and cider $8-$10
Prices: Toast $8; Eggs $12-$70; sides $5; pancakes $14-$21; breakfast bowls $16-$17; burgers $12-$15; lunch mains $18-$26; kids menu $7-$10
Hours: Tue-Fri 7.30am-3.30pm, Sat-Sun 8am-4pm
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‘Storm in a teacup’: Cafe ordered to remove yellow signage because it needed council permission Daniella White May 7, 2021. 156 comments
A popular inner west cafe has been ordered to take down the bright yellow signage on its shopfront because the size, location and colour required council approval.
But many local residents have thrown their support behind the design, saying the cafe had injected new life into Haberfield’s struggling shopping precinct.
Inner West Council mayor Darcy Byrne said the situation was a “storm in a teacup”.
Happyfield Cafe in Haberfield has been asked to remove its yellow signage CREDIT:JANIE BARRETT
The council contacted the Happyfield cafe’s owners in January, ordering them to remove yellow film installed to the shopfront glass, yellow paint at the entry doors and grey paint to the fascia boards covering the footpath.
But the cafe has submitted a development application defending the work as being in keeping with the art deco style of the site, in a bid to keep the distinctive branding.
The application, which included a heritage impact statement, said it came at a vital time when hospitality jobs were under significant pressure and uncertainty.
Keeping the signage would “allow the cafe to continue its function with the aesthetic that has come to be appreciated by the many customers who frequent the cafe”.
Happyfield cafe has defended the signage in a development application. CREDIT:JANIE BARRETT
The owners, who declined to comment for this article, also started a petition calling on local residents’ support to keep the signage. As of Thursday afternoon, it had almost 700 signatures.
Mr Byrne said the cafe, which opened in October last year on Ramsay Street, had injected new life into central Haberfield.
“I think Haberfield could do with some extra colour, so it seems like a storm in a teacup,” he said.
“I’d like to see more simple applications being approved without the need for a DA, as a general rule, especially when we need local business to bounce back from the COVID pandemic.”
Asked if he liked the yellow colour scheme he said: “I’m no planning expert but I do like their coffee”.
The Inner West mayor called the dispute “a storm in a teacup”.CREDIT:JANIE BARRETT
Local historian and president of the Haberfield Association Vincent Crow said the yellow design respected the architectural integrity of the building and should be allowed to stay.
“The Happyfield cafe has brought new customers to the Haberfield shopping centre as can be witnessed by the number of people that it attracts, especially on weekends when there is an overflow onto the footpath,” he said in a submission to council.
“The Haberfield Association supports the retention or reconstruction of original shopfronts. While some shop owners still submit development applications which are inappropriate for Haberfield, the owners of the Happyfield cafe should be commended for establishing a successful business within the parameters of a heritage building.”
The cafe was ordered to remove the yellow from the main doors. CREDIT:JANIE BARRETT
A spokeswoman for Inner West Council said it issued the order after receiving a complaint that alleged unauthorised works had been undertaken at the property.
“The order required removal of the signage, and to restore the property to its original condition prior to the unauthorised works,” she said.
“Many business signs do not require approval from council, especially small shop signs within business centres. However, there are limits, and one of the important limits is the number, size and location of signs, and if the property is within a heritage area.
“Haberfield is identified as an especially important heritage conservation area in the inner west, and the number, size and location of Happyfield’s signs, as well as their colour, need approval through a DA.”
She said staff were currently reviewing submissions to the development application.
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Acre farm-restaurant in Camperdown set to close in May. SCOTT BOLLES March 30 2021
Acre Eatery in Camperdown is closing. Photo: Christopher Pearce
Acre, the pioneering urban farm and restaurant that opened in Camperdown five years ago, will close at the end of May.
An Acre spokesman declined to comment on the reasons behind its impending departure from the Camperdown site.
While the departure of the sprawling Acre is a blow for Camperdown locals, the venue proved a successful prototype, with new Acre venues popping up everywhere from Melbourne to Sydney’s north, in Artarmon.
Inner-west fans mightn’t have to wait long for an Acre replacement though, with the group negotiating on another site in Sydney’s west, with plans to launch next year.
A spin-off concept, Acrette, opened last week at 822 George Street in Chippendale. A pint-sized version of its older sibling, Acrette has a menu of salads, wellness pots and a farmhouse-inspired bakery range. "We call it farm food fast," the spokesman said.
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Why there’s a flight simulator hidden in the back of an EzyMart in Sydney’s CBD. Harriet Alexander October 28, 2021 [41 comments, all praising the good-news article]
Most people say, “that’s random,” when they see a flight simulator sitting beyond rows of chewing gum and souvenirs at the back of Ahmed Abdelwahed’s convenience store on Elizabeth Street, in Sydney’s central business district.
A decade ago, Mr Abdelwahed was holed up in a new neighbourhood in Cairo that bordered the desert, defending the home that he shared with his father, brother, wife and baby boy against the gangs who had taken advantage of the civil unrest stirred up by the Arab Spring.
Ahmed Abdelwahed outside the flight simulator he has constructed in his EzyMart store on Elizabeth Street.CREDIT:BROOK MITCHELL
An aviation electrical engineer by trade, he invented an electrical self-defence tool to deploy against anybody who tried to storm the building. They watched looters carry bedsheets and juice cartons out of the supermarket next door. They closed their gate, filled jars with boiling oil and slept in shifts.
“It was a very difficult time,” he said.
Mr Abdelwahed moved his family to Hurghada, a beach resort town in Egypt on the Red Sea, where he worked for Egypt Air and lived “like a king” on a salary 10 times the average wage, living at the Marriott Hotel and socialising at the hunting club. He fixed all the European and US aircraft in Egypt and flew around the world signing off on plane safety predeparture.
But with Egypt still recovering, he worried about the opportunities available to his children. He tried living in USA, but found it unsafe and felt police were suspicious of him as a Muslim man from the Middle East.
Ahmed Abdelwahed calibrates a new flight simulator inside his EzyMart store in Elizabeth Street.CREDIT:BROOK MITCHELL
“Come to Australia,” a friend said. “In Australia all people are equal, and you can live however you want.”
He flew to Sydney on August 3, 2018. His friends picked him up from the airport and took him to his new apartment, where they had stocked the fridge with food. People he had not even met helped him move his furniture and buy a car.
“Why are you helping me like this?” Mr Abdelwahed asked. “It’s not normal.”
“Because here, we don’t have any issues against each other,” they replied. “All of us help each other to get better.”
Mr Abdelwahed is living in Yagoona in Sydney’s west on a student visa, which he hopes to convert into a Global Talent Independent Visa based on his expertise in electrical engineering on five different aircraft models. He is consulting for Egypt Air and has a job offer from a local aviation consultancy company.
Although he can work in technical support or consulting, he is still waiting to have his qualifications as an aircraft maintenance engineer recognised.
Last November, tapping into his professional background, he bought a secondhand flight simulator from Britain for $100,000.
“I thought this simulator would be a connection with my past, my background,” Mr Abdelwahed said.
It arrived in 2000 pieces, which he painstakingly put together in his garage. After he took the lease on the EzyMart convenience store, he disassembled the simulator and made it again at the new location.
The flight simulator is an attraction for pedestrians in Sydney’s CBD.CREDIT:BROOK MITCHELL
The reassembly took two months, and he finally opened for business on June 25, the day Sydney went into lockdown.
Now that the city has reopened, he is offering the simulator out for photo opportunities, gaming sessions, professional sessions and pilot practice.
He said he had never felt more welcome than he does in Australia. “I tell my friends that they’re the best people I’ve ever met in my life.”
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