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Ume Restaurant to close, and other news in brief

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Ume Restaurant, in Surry Hills, will reopen as a bar.
Ume Restaurant, in Surry Hills, will reopen as a bar.Diego Lorenzo F. Jose

In another blow for upmarket dining in Sydney, the one-hatted Ume Restaurant in Surry Hills will close in July. It'll reopen as a bar with burgers on the menu. The Bourke Street site has been home to some well-known restaurants over the years, Bistrode and Dragonfly also traded there.

Last year, former Icebergs restaurant manager David Owen opened Paradise Road Diner at North Bondi. On the weekend the eight-month-old diner delivered a sibling, Paradise Road Kitchen, in the former site of a chicken shop on Campbell Parade. "We're doing pork, lamb and chicken on the rotisserie and old-school dishes to take home. We also have some seating if you want to eat in," he says.

Flying Fish owner Con Dedes is tapping the food of his youth with a new inner-west restaurant. The Smoking Goat, housed in the Sydney Rowing Club at Abbotsford, shares its sister restaurant's waterside setting but not Flying Fish's cuisine pitch. Dedes, who also owns the Japanese-leaning Salaryman restaurant, has scoured his family's Greek recipe vault. The result? Plenty of lamb shoulder and octopus, but strangely no sign of goat.

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