People tell me all they want to do is dine outside. It feels more open and relaxed, they say; but what they really mean is safer.
It makes The Pines quite the hot ticket at the moment, with its Beach Bar terrace and large, whitewashed dining room with windows thrown open to beach views, right in the heart of Cronulla s famous restaurant alley .
For a joint that opened last November, it s pulling an excitable party-time crowd. At a rough estimate this sunny lunchtime, I d say it s 30 per cent family groups and 70 per cent off-the-shoulder frocks and stilettos (that percentage possibly skewed by the presence of a hens party).