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A cool spot to drool

“You might be better off somewhere else if you want to eat soon,” the man behind the bar tells me as he makes drinks. “Otherwise, seating is just kind of a free-for-all.”

It’s a heaving Friday night and I’m deeply, desperately hungry. So, we sit by the bar anyway and watch hawk-like for departing customers among shabby, chipped tables, hastily pulled together and apart again to accommodate group socialising. Peach Pit’s pared-back interior gets

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