A restaurant in the “heart of gay Sydney” is facing calls for boycott after its owner posted a homophobic message on .A social media backlash swiftly followed, but Iftekhar Hasan, the owner of Yilmaz Grill and Bakehouse in the Waterloo area, initially doubled down and defended his post.
It was only after locals started to mark down his restaurant’s online rating that Hasan posted a lengthy apology. But by then as one person posted the “damage was done.”The inner city suburb of Waterloo is located around three kilometres from Sydney’s CBD, and is close to Surry Hills and Darlinghurst.