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/2013/01/cafe-review-red-brick-espresso-curtain-canberra/ http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2013/01/cafe-review-red-brick-espresso-curtain-canberra/#comments Fri, 25 Jan 2013 04:14:42 +0000 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/?p=4961 Red Brick espresso is no exception. Milk crates are scattered plentifully out the front of this Curtin café, and they’ve taken it to another level with the accompanying tables, made of bread crates. I hope there’s not a delivery guy out Fyshwick way somewhere going broke for lack of crates. We stand at the counter for a while waiting to order, staff seem a little harried so we wait as they hand out the takeaways. We order coffee and seat ourselves in the unmistakeably Canberran, light-filled and cleverly renovated space, which, as we’re in the southside of Canberra, could’ve been anything in a past life- a house, a pharmacy, or a sex shop – all roads lead to rectangular brick structures. The guys behind the espresso machine look like they know what’s what – they roast their own coffee here, and are well and truly the third wave.]]> http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2013/01/cafe-review-red-brick-espresso-curtain-canberra/feed/ 2 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2011/09/cafe-review-lonsdale-street-roasters/ http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2011/09/cafe-review-lonsdale-street-roasters/#comments Tue, 13 Sep 2011 08:01:58 +0000 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/?p=2022 Bikes and coffee and hipsters – seemingly unrelated things come in threes. Why? Who knows, who cares. As puzzling to me as Shirt Bar was the other week and no less delightful, Lonsdale Street Roasters (or LSR as it is known) meshes this triad of seemingly random objects (yes, hipsters are indeed objects) except to me, coffee roaster+bikes+hipsters=café, where shirts+whisky+coffee=scratching my head a bit. I think it’s safe to say LSR in the only so-cool-it-hurts espresso bar in the ‘berra, a city renowned for it’s roundabouts, public servants and, oh hang on a sec, bicycle paths. Bicycles hang from the ceiling, yellow and white magnetic letters spell out the menus, all the staff are under 25, artfully arranged bric-a-brac adorns the walls. It ticks all the boxes, the only thing missing is the Astroturf.]]> http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2011/09/cafe-review-lonsdale-street-roasters/feed/ 9 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2011/04/manifesto-of-a-non-grinding-barista/ http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2011/04/manifesto-of-a-non-grinding-barista/#comments Thu, 07 Apr 2011 20:22:40 +0000 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/?p=1316 Actually, I know great deal about coffee, definitely more than nothing. And it is this knowledge, along with my own personal circumstances, that has led me to drink it the way I do. First world problems, eh? Here are the 4 steps of reasoning that lead me to believe a grinder is not for me.]]> http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2011/04/manifesto-of-a-non-grinding-barista/feed/ 16