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Swing low

I’m not sure how kind summer’s been to Lowbrow, occupying the back left-hand corner of Queen’s Rise — the posh food court up an escalator off Queen St. Built in the 1980s, the space has had a major renovation to be fit for purpose, but as nice a job as Sydney-based architects Alexander & Co have done, even our waiter joked that he rarely knows what the weather’s like

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