Newtown Entertainment Precinct

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Overview

Get into the Newtown Entertainment Precinct and get under Sydney's skin. Watch it, bite it, touch it, and flaunt it in Sydney's most eclectic suburb.

Newtown, just 4km from the city's centre, is pollinated by the peoples of the world, a place where you can rub shoulders with an astounding diversity of residents, from scruffy students to the glam of high fashion followers and everyone in between. Newtown is proud of its diversity; colourful, unconventional and gay-friendly, Newtown-ites welcome all and sundry to their historic neighbourhood.

The precinct is the heart of Sydney's exploding entertainment scene, abounding with idiosyncratic pubs, clubs and theatres. Newtown has the highest concentration of theatres and live music venues outside the Sydney CBD.

Its vibrant diversity is reflected in the suburb's one hundred and twenty restaurants and cafes offering a choice of more than twenty affordable ethnic cuisines including Australia's only Peruvian restaurant. So when hunger strikes you're guaranteed to find somewhere to suit your taste.

Famous for its thriving Bohemian culture, Newtown also attracts the savvy and adventurous shopper. New and recycled clothing shops, quirky antique showrooms and eccentric specialty stores line Newtown's King Street and Enmore Road. Discover cutting edge Australian fashion from emerging fashion designers and browse through hip music and bookstores.

Sip coffee from a window seat and watch the endless display of diversity as Jimmy Choo and Dr Marten clad feet walk side by side down the street.

Features

See a show at any one of six independent theatre spaces from the grand concert room of the Enmore Theatre to the often challenging, diverse and contemporary work at PACT Youth Theatre, New Theatre (Australia's oldest theatre company), Newtown Theatre, Seymour Theatre Centre, and Sidetrack Theatre
Spend the evening listening to live music at any one of 16 hotels, clubs and cabaret spaces such as the funky newtown RSL or the intimate and sexy Vanguard
Eat your way from one continent to another as you savour delicately spiced African curries, Vietnamese lime-cooked fish, Scandinavian suckling pig, Indian sweets and European pastries, and just about every cuisine between here and the North Pole

Features

Cruise Enmore Road and south King Street's one-off shops with typically idiosyncratic themes as buttons, beads, retro, tiles, underground records, tribal gifts handbags, gothic garments or living dead dolls
Experience Newtown's galleries showcasing cutting edge artwork or go to one of the 20th century antiques stores
Browse through many new and second-hand book stores for everything from popular novels to rare first editions
Discover daring fashion from up-and-coming designers and find coveted retro pieces in the multitude of recycled clothing shops

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