SOUTH EVELEIGH PRECINCT

sun shower had just erupted over South Eveleigh, the Sydney precinct that boasts some of the most talked-about new restaurants and bars in the city. But, instead of the scraping chairs and chatter you’d expect to hear from people escaping the rain, it was quiet. Two weeks into Sydney’s second lockdown, and South Eveleigh presented a very different scene to what it had been just moments before. Upon opening earlier this year, Sydneysiders flocked, excited to experience the re-energised space that had been undergoing transformation since 2016. But now, in the eerie quiet of a locked-down city, the site was almost