July 1, 2021
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The hospitality industry is riddled with issues: a mass-casualised workforce, erratic work hours and easy access to drugs and alcohol. A mental health advocacy group wants to bring about change, but six people working in the trenches tell CityMag it won't happen easily.
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July 21, 2020
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In her parent’s Chinatown restaurant, Tangritah Uyghur Restaurant, Marhaba Salay serves plates of handmade dumplings and lamb kebabs. Outside the eatery, she is campaigning for her sister's freedom from a Chinese re-education camp.
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February 18, 2020
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The plant-based Vietnamese eatery recently celebrated its one-year anniversary and last week launched extended hours and a dinner menu from Thursday to Saturday. We thought we'd acquaint ourselves.
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January 19, 2018
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Gouger Street’s delicious reputation was built by the skill and determination of first generation migrants who became entrepreneurs. But as those owners grow old and the next generation come to the fore, some of Chinatown’s greatest institutions are under threat.
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November 3, 2017
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The age-old fishing industry is getting disrupted by new SA business Fair Fish - and the result is better seafood for eaters, and fairer prices for independent fishermen.
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July 17, 2017
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It's worth a trip outside the square mile.
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May 14, 2015
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Mesa Lunga calls it quits to make way for a new idea from restaurateur Walter Ventura - Mexican Society of Chinatown.
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August 6, 2014
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New Regent Arcade coffee shop - Larry & Ladd - takes collaboration seriously. The business brings together industry heavyweights Coffee Branch and Bar 9 as well as elevating some familiar faces.
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May 29, 2014
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For almost too long the new offer by Henley-Beach-Road-heroes, Parwana, sat shrouded by a thin, plastic, painter’s sheet on Ebenezer Place.
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