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Switching tacks has become a common MO among restaurants worldwide during the Covid-19 pandemic. Noma, the Michelin-starred Copenhagen restaurant voted best in the world multiple times, re-opened in mid-2020 as a burger and wine bar for the foreseeable future. La Rosa, the elegant Italian eatery in Sydney's historic Strand Arcade, debuted The Milan Cricket Club for the summer, a three-month pop-up billed as a British/Italian steakhouse.

Darling Square outpost has pivoted with an innovative new menu that blends its trademark sophisticated cooking techniques with Vietnamese flavours and ingredients. A year after the opening of Darling Square, the last segment of the NSW's government's $3.4 billion Exchange Building and its "wrapping" of 20 kilometres of timber, the sense of community is palpable.

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