Saturday, June 16, 2018

Frogs v Roos

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France Vs Australia 2:1 ... Penalties galore ... Punj minutes extended ... 95 minutes of skilful soccer ... What a great game and Frogs deserved that extra luck second goal hit just few centimetres behind the line ...



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Even at the punters at the heart of the Italian sport bar on Norton  Few were confident that socceroos could win tonight's day. This is a rare place as most customers are not acting as they are sitting in a waiting room for GOD. It is a bubbly spot where speculations about the results flows organically from everyone's mouth. From 7:0 for France to  2:1 for Soceroos to win ...


Established in 1959 by the magnificently named Raffaello Raffaelli, Bar Sport is a delicious piece of old Leichhardt, kept alive by a love of Italian football - as you can see by the wall of teams and results. If blonde bombshell Cicciolina herself parked her body at a tiny table under the 1.6-metre plasma HD screen supplied by VIVO TV, she'd be ignored - if there was a match on, that is. So grab a milky Mokador caffe latte ($3.50) and a toasty salami and provolone brioche and sit so you can see the screen - if you can't beat 'em, join 'em. 

Bar Sport Article Lead - narrow
Sydney Sport | Bar Sport in Leichhardt

Photo of cafe Bar Sport taken by TerryVDK
It's 6:30 in the morning and the regulars are here. The outside tables are crowded with men arguing the latest soccer (sorry, football) game, tradies grabbing a coffee and a ciggie before work and women clad in exercise gear that I suspect never suffers from any sweat.

Bar Sport comes into its own this early. An institution of Leichhardt'sNorton Street since 1956, it's a vestige of an earlier era when people got up with the sun. Both fresh and old as the hills, it's the kind of place you need to squeeze in every morning before heading off to confront the daily grind.h
My parents used to talk about Bar Sport. Like me, they used to live in Petersham and, like me, Bar Sport became part of their daily existence. It's still a ritual visit every time they have a spare fifteen minutes in the Inner West. I have vague memories of being taken there as kid, and being intimidated by the frankness of a one room café. There's nowhere to run and there's nowhere to hide, and that's how the patrons like it. This is not a place of anonymity. It's a place where your business is communal.
Bar Sport is probably also one of the few surviving examples of what Leichhardt used to be like. Service is often in Italian, and old Italian men sit around and chew the zucchereto (Italian doughnuts filled with custard) and the fat. Chess games are undertaken with utmost concentration and no humour. Families come here, with kids wearing their school uniforms with their socks pulled all the way up. In a city that has a tendency to immerse itself in cliques, Bar Sport remains a mainstay of community. I come here as much for a sense of place as I do for the (great) coffees.

It's also old school. If you like to be overwhelmed by fawning service, this is not the place for you. Also be warned that if you get in the way of the sports on TV, you stand a risk of being yelled at. But if you've been looking for somewhere that's the real deal, then you should give Bar Sport a whirl. I'm there every morning at 6:30. Come and say hello.

Huzzah: The coffee and the company

Bummer: The crowds at certain peak periods. There are only so many chairs in a café the size of your lounge room.

Not for: anyone who drinks tea, hates football or is keen on low fat cakes.


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“No skim, no soy, no light, just milk”
This is the sign that has greeted Bar Italia customers for years and typifies the no nonsense, simple and charming landmark in Sydney’s inner west.
Opened in 1952, Bar Italia is one of the last remaining small Italian restaurants and cafes that lined Norton Street during the 1950s and 60s to cater for the growing Italian community in the area as a result of the migrants who moved here after #WWII. Over the last decade Norton Street has sadly lost much of it’s #Italian charm due to high rents and a changing local community. But somehow Bar Italia has survived so it must be doing something right.
In it’s 54 years, Bar Italia has maintained it’s original charm through it’s menu, decor and staff of which changes have been few and far between. Only recently did ownership change from Peter Cama who ran Bar Italia for 25 years to new owners who now have the chance to add their own touch. But hopefully they don’t change too much. So far so good!
During the 1980s and 90s #Leichhardt built a reputation for being “Lesbian friendly” and as a result Bar Italia was a popular place to eat for Sydney’s Lesbian community.
Bar Italia is famous for its #gelato (particularly the #tiramisu flavour) as well as Italian pizza, pasta and focaccias. You’ll often find one Sydney #history Instagrammer poking his head in to satisfy his rather silly late night #coffee craving … with normal milk thank you!
Note: I try to be as accurate as possible but make no guarantees. Please use this information at your own risk!
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