There’s something very “vintage Sydney” about Stanley Street in Darlinghurst. It’s not anchored by a big, blockbuster restaurant or a painfully hip cocktail bar. The old Bill and Toni’s is still serving good-value spaghetti, and the 70-year-old Beppi’s still stands as a stately sentinel on the corner. Mercifully, it hasn’t been designated as any sort of engineered “precinct”, other than its loose label as Sydney’s original Italian quarter.
Claret Club, a…

