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Rose Bay Diner opens behind Catalina

Scott Bolles
Scott Bolles

Team: Ben Sweeten and Daniele Trimarchi.
Team: Ben Sweeten and Daniele Trimarchi.Brendon Thorne

If there's a building in Sydney near the water then there's a food operator trying to snare it.

An old shed in Dee Why has been transformed into The Beach Shed, serving cafe food close enough to the action to have sand blown in your fritters.

And the old toilet block at Rose Bay (behind Catalina restaurant) has also had the food wand waved at it.

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After a short-lived tenure with another operator, Ben Sweeten (who sold Joe Black in Surry Hills last year) has swapped urban for waterside suburban, snapping up the site.

Sweeten has renamed it Rose Bay Diner and installed former Icebergs and Fratelli Paradiso chef Daniele Trimarchi in the kitchen, rocking cafe fare with his own twist, including pulled ham hock, kifler potatoes and poached eggs.

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Scott BollesScott Bolles writes the weekly Short Black column in Good Food.

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