THE VIBRANT PRECINCT of South Eveleigh manages to be simultaneously one of Sydney’s oldest and newest: a transformation of the Eveleigh Railway Workshops, a stone’s throw from Redfern Station and the birthplace of Australia’s national rail network, into a modern inner-city food hub that combines all this heritage and more.
It finds an official ambassador in Kylie Kwong, who was drawn to the area initially by the heritage-listed Locomotive Workshop “with its stunning architecture and history” that anchors the destination, and soon discovered a strong sense of community, creativity, innovation and multiculturalism buzzing throughout. With “a food offering that is broad, delicious, accessible and culturally diverse”, she says, it proved the perfect home for her casual Australian-Cantonese eatery, Lucky Kwong,
