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/2012/11/eat-drink-blog-adelaide-coffee-crawl/ http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2012/11/eat-drink-blog-adelaide-coffee-crawl/#comments Fri, 09 Nov 2012 21:06:54 +0000 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/?p=4791 3 food bloggers, 3 cafes, 3 great macchs

Food blogging is one area of my life where I can honestly say I find myself perpetually delighted, and that’s mostly down to the people I meet. Food bloggers want to meet you. They want to eat with you. They want to show you around. So that’s how it came to be that on the morning after the eat fest that was Eat Drink Blog 2012, Hayes of Adeladie food blog The Chopping Board (who wasn’t even at the conference) and Sarah (who was) went on a coffee crawl with Perth blogger Ai-Ling (who doesn’t even drink coffee) and I (who most definitely does). We hit three cafés in less than three hours and thoroughly enjoyed every microgram of caffeine imparted on us by this 'city of churches'.]]> http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2012/11/eat-drink-blog-adelaide-coffee-crawl/feed/ 9 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2012/08/cafe-review-whole-bean-espresso-bar/ http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2012/08/cafe-review-whole-bean-espresso-bar/#comments Fri, 10 Aug 2012 00:19:43 +0000 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/?p=4102 You’ve gotta love a coffee place that bills itself as ‘the second best coffee in Marrickville’ (and the 11th best in Australia). Regardless of the quality of their coffee, its fair to assume they have a sense of humour. At least, that was my logic the first time I tried to go to Whole Bean, on a Saturday, but the joke was on me as at that point, they weren’t open Saturdays (they are now), so I added them to my list for sometime soon. ‘Sometime soon’ came sooner than I thought, as one gorgeous day last week I headed there with my partner in coffee and in life to try the second best coffee in Marrickville. Whole Bean is housed in a Marrickville Warehouse just off Victoria Road, and comprised of a coffee roaster, syphon bar and more edison light bulbs than you can poke a stick at, not to mention recycled coffee sacks and velvet curtains. It’s a cavernous space, and one you can rent out for functions, should you be so inclined. The space is large and there’s plenty of seating, another benefit of many cafes in this part of town. ]]> http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2012/08/cafe-review-whole-bean-espresso-bar/feed/ 7 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2012/07/cafe-review-bangbang-espresso-bar-and-cafe/ http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2012/07/cafe-review-bangbang-espresso-bar-and-cafe/#comments Thu, 12 Jul 2012 21:33:13 +0000 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/?p=3916 I got an email about a month ago with the subject heading ‘Blast from the Buenos Aires past’. It was from a friend I’d made in Argentina nearly four years ago. We’d spent a week together trawling through markets and drinking 1 litre beers. Weirdly, she was from Adelaide, but now she was writing to tell me she’d moved to Sydney. We arranged to meet for (what else) coffee with her delightful beau and Canberra Caffeine-o-phile Barrister Barista (aka @canberrachino). The four of us met at Surry Hills’ Bang Bang Espresso, which had been on my to-blog list for at least a year. Funnily enough, former DJ Alan Thompson started Bang Bang in 2009, exactly when my pal and I had been traipsing all over BA without a decent coffee in sight. An email from Alan inviting me round to the cafe for a free meal which I, dripping with reluctant integrity, turned down, served as a reminder not to leave Bang Bang on the list for much longer. ]]> http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2012/07/cafe-review-bangbang-espresso-bar-and-cafe/feed/ 6 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2012/05/cafe-review-palomino-espresso-sydney-cbd/ http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2012/05/cafe-review-palomino-espresso-sydney-cbd/#comments Thu, 24 May 2012 21:23:14 +0000 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/?p=3537 Sydney CBD cafés usually have a very different feel from those on the city fringe. Your Petty Cash Cafés, you Belljars don’t really exude the same frantic, grab-your-latte-and-raisin-toast-and-run vibe that you get at somewhere like, say, Vella Nero. This is changing, or maybe I’m just paying closer attention. In any case the York Street hub, with the likes of the quirky Shirt Bar and the laneway haven York Lane is a pretty awesome place to be grabbing your coffees and lunches these days. Palomino Espresso is the newest addition to the area. A few blocks south of Wynyard Station, nextdoor to Stitch, I literally walked straight past it on its second day of trading. And I was actually looking for it. It was only because I was looking for number 61 and the numbers were higher than that that I turned around and had a second look.]]> http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2012/05/cafe-review-palomino-espresso-sydney-cbd/feed/ 8