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Joe Napoliello owner of Bar Sport.

Bar Sport

This venue is a finalist for the icons category in Good Food’s Essential Sydney Cafes and Bakeries of 2025.

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An artist’s impression of the proposed development at Lords Road.

The Sydney football club fighting plans for 200 apartments

APIA Leichhardt FC fears it will be forced into curfews or noise restrictions if a planning proposal to build eight-storey unit buildings goes ahead.

  • Jessica McSweeney
The council wants higher density housing around Parramatta Road.

The plan to build more 11-storey unit blocks in Sydney’s inner west

The local council didn’t like the state government’s plans to boost housing stock around train stations and urban centres, so it came up with its own plan.

  • Megan Gorrey
Vegetarian dorilocos in a Flaming Hot Doritos bag.

Chip bags turned into portable bowls are the hot order at Abe’s Comida

The Leichhardt kitchen is filling Doritos packets with lime, guacamole and slow-cooked meat as per Mexican street-food tradition.

  • Lee Tran Lam
UNSW Underwater Rugby team training at Leichhardt Park Aquatic Centre in Sydney

The unlikely team sport left high and dry when Sydney dive pool closes

A difficult sport to watch is going to become an even rarer sight as underwater rugby loses a subaquatic pitch.

  • Frances Howe
Flight paths and housing.

The Sydney suburbs excluded from ‘missing middle’ housing plan

The “missing middle” reform was supposed to increase density in inner-city suburbs. Now the government will exclude most of the inner west and parts of other areas.

  • Max Maddison
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Gina and Josephine di Francesco at the Italian Forum, Leichhardt.

The last Italian restaurant in Leichhardt’s Italian forum has sold

The sale of the restaurant – which will soon reopen under new owners – marks a sad milestone in the history of one of the inner west’s most peculiar developments.

  • Anthony Segaert
Eastwood villa sells for $1.66 million on Saturday.

Eastwood villa sells for $1.66 million, almost tripling since 2007

Four downsizers from the suburb and surrounds registered to bid on the two-bedroom, two-bathroom home that last sold for $570,000 less than two decades ago.

  • Kristy Johnson
Market stalls sell quick, spice-laden street fare.

Team behind Burwood Chinatown opens hawker-style food market in surprising location

Eighteen market stands have taken up residence in an inner-west pub that’s been dormant for a decade.

  • Scott Bolles
Rashida Lowe and her husband Abel Hawkins sold their Leichhardt terrace in July, upsizing to a five-bedroom family home in Thornleigh.

How much money you need to earn to buy a house in Sydney

Buyers in many parts of Sydney would need a six-figure income, and some neighbourhoods require a pay packet that’s astronomical.

  • Kristy Johnson

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