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/2012/02/freda%e2%80%99s-bar-and-canteen-chippendale/ http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2012/02/freda%e2%80%99s-bar-and-canteen-chippendale/#comments Tue, 28 Feb 2012 04:20:59 +0000 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/?p=3117 Freda’s isn’t small, it’s large. But it doesn’t feel large because it employs this revolutionary idea I like to call hospitality. That's what happens when the staff can be bothered to say hello. It’s where there are chairs to sit on and music that ranges from a hum to upbeat background noise - on Saturday night, you’re just short of shouting but you probably won’t notice. It’s where the food comes out quickly and the bread comes with it, where you can order at the bar or have table service, your choice. It’s where every person that serves you treats you like a person, not a nuisance at the end of a woolworth’s deli-style queue, and you treat them like a person right back.]]> http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2012/02/freda%e2%80%99s-bar-and-canteen-chippendale/feed/ 10 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2011/06/the-shortlist-darlington/ http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2011/06/the-shortlist-darlington/#comments Mon, 06 Jun 2011 21:20:07 +0000 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/?p=1751 Then there are the suburbs that are completely made up – I’m looking at you, ‘Redfern East’. No, I’m sorry, you just plain don’t exist. And then there’s Darlington, its 2008 postcode made up almost entirely of Sydney Uni (and invented specifically so Sydney Uni would enjoy, shall we say, less rigid planning laws than the surrounding suburbs). To me this is kind of a suburb. It’s the one you say you live in when you’re trying to sell your house but you really live in Chippendale. ‘The Shortlist’ is in the semi-made-up suburb of Darlington on the lemming-walk to Sydney Uni stretch of Abercrombie St. There have been two pretty respectable café options on this drag for ages – the laid back Tripod, serving coffee roaster coffee and the incredibly popular but slightly grumpily staffed Café Ella which is never open Sundays.]]> http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2011/06/the-shortlist-darlington/feed/ 13 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2011/06/beautiful-burgers-chippendale/ http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2011/06/beautiful-burgers-chippendale/#comments Thu, 02 Jun 2011 20:29:53 +0000 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/?p=1721 So when Peter and Marian from Beautiful Burgers contacted me and asked if I’d like to come and check out their cafe, I just couldn’t say no.* The reason is that I’ve ‘checked out’ Beautiful Burgers on many a Saturday arvo, to soak up last night’s alcohol or just because there’s nothing in the fridge. ]]> http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2011/06/beautiful-burgers-chippendale/feed/ 5