http://www.corridorkitchen.com Necessity is the mother of invention. Tue, 23 Feb 2021 23:46:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2013/02/cafe-review-excelsior-jones-ashfield/ http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2013/02/cafe-review-excelsior-jones-ashfield/#comments Fri, 08 Feb 2013 01:57:29 +0000 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/?p=5032 hub of hipness in a post-industrial wasteland. It also ensures a good mix of truly local customers and those who are willing to really look for their next caffeine hit. A counter intuitive business strategy, but one which has been well established - make your product accessible, but not *too* convenient. Put your small bar down an allyway or behind a suit shop. Plant your flagship Aussie donut store in Penrith. Make your customers hunt around a bit. The rest is history. So to say that Excelsior Jones is off the beaten path/in an unexpected place/not where you’d think would be a tad misleading. It’s exactly where you’d think- in a suburb crying out for a good café, and I’m betting there’ll be plenty more where this came from. ]]> http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2013/02/cafe-review-excelsior-jones-ashfield/feed/ 3 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2011/10/haberfield%e2%80%99s-primavera-saturday-22nd-october-2011/ http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2011/10/haberfield%e2%80%99s-primavera-saturday-22nd-october-2011/#comments Fri, 28 Oct 2011 02:45:31 +0000 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/?p=2386 Last weekend, having just finished up The $35 Challenge where there was very little in the way of food choice, I was far from paralysed by this paradox. In fact, I was salivating, and not even necessarily at the variety of food offered up by the harbour city, but at the very concept of choice itself. Now. What to eat first? I knew exactly where my first foray back into foodie-ville would take me. A week or so ago, after a tip-off from kindred blogger Inner West Foodie, I got an email from Ashfield council inviting me to its three upcoming festivals: Ashfield’s Tastes of Asia (Friday night), Haberfield’s Primavera (Saturday) and The Summer Hill Grand Food Bazaar (Sunday), all part of the Crave Sydney Food Festival. Friday I was still on The $35 Challenge and Sunday the inner-west trains weren’t running so I knew I’d be at Haberfield come Saturday. It was to be my only Crave Sydney Food Festival event, and one I’m glad I didn’t miss. Haberfield isn’t a suburb I’ve spent much time in, so I welcomed the chance for a bit of exploration. And with Ashfield Council promising 100% local stallholders (specifically, no gozlëme) I was hooked. ]]> http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2011/10/haberfield%e2%80%99s-primavera-saturday-22nd-october-2011/feed/ 10