Swimming with the dolphins

Like Surry Hills itself, the newly renovated Dolphin Hotel is a clutch of contradictions. In a suburb where you can go from favella to fabulous in less than a block, at the Dolphin you can go from the Bauhaus lines of an open dining room, to a sunny umbrella-laden balcony, or cozy, upholstered banquette nooks in a few steps. The crowd too is eclectic. Everything from concrete booted construction