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/2013/12/cafe-review-gumption-by-coffee-alchemy-sydney-cbd/ http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2013/12/cafe-review-gumption-by-coffee-alchemy-sydney-cbd/#comments Fri, 13 Dec 2013 07:45:48 +0000 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/?p=6223 Coffee Alchemy’s ‘Gumption’ launched last week in with little fanfare and much positive word of mouth. You’ll find it on the ground floor or the iconic Strand Arcade on Sydney’s Pitt and George Streets. ]]> http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2013/12/cafe-review-gumption-by-coffee-alchemy-sydney-cbd/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/2012/02/cafe-review-cornersmith-marrickville/ http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2012/02/cafe-review-cornersmith-marrickville/#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:40:04 +0000 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/?p=3007 Sydney Food Bloggers Picnic last month, and I wasn’t dissappointed. Cornersmith is the kind of joint that’s closed for pickling on Mondays. Yes, really, I didn’t get that from some kind of Hipster’s Encyclopaedia of cafe descriptors (remind me to write that, if I ever get a chance). They do all kinds of locavore/DIY things like buying backyard produce and making their own jam. They have a beehive on their roof! Basically, they’re the cafe equivalent of a Portlandia sketch. All this and more means that I was there with bells on at whatever time it was that Saturday.]]> http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2012/02/cafe-review-cornersmith-marrickville/feed/ 17 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2011/12/cafe-review-double-roasters-marrickville/ http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2011/12/cafe-review-double-roasters-marrickville/#comments Tue, 06 Dec 2011 07:50:31 +0000 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/?p=2619 Before Australia became an espresso drinker’s paradise, how the hell did we fill our time? What reason did we give for popping out of the office at 10:30am, a quick... juice? And what of those who don’t drink it? Something tells me the Aussie psyche is evolving a distinct distrust of the non-coffee drinker. We’re learning to look on them with the same suspicion we traditionally reserved for the teetotaller – eschewing coffee will soon be ‘unastrayun’. But lucky for caffeine addicts like me that our nation’s passion ensures that every five minutes a new, hip café or coffee roaster pops up. I may be biased as an inner-westie, but a large number of them crop up in the inner-west. Ok, so they’re in places like Alexandria or Marrickville, the so-called ‘warehouse suburbs’ (so-called because I just called them that), and that has more to do with a post-industrial (literally) gentrification than a compass. But there’s no doubt I’m one lucky Lau to live in such a pocket of coffee wankery. ]]> http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2011/12/cafe-review-double-roasters-marrickville/feed/ 21 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2011/11/bourke-street-bakery-marrickville/ http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2011/11/bourke-street-bakery-marrickville/#comments Tue, 22 Nov 2011 10:30:29 +0000 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/?p=2570 So it will come as no surprise to anyone that I’m not the least bit interested in checking out the Bourke Street Bakery that is actually on Bourke Street- that line around the block is way too Porteño for me (Haha. Clever double entendre there). Until recently I had been to all their other branches, including their now defunct Broadway branch and their offshoot Central Baking Depot. But I hadn’t been to their Marrickville store, and I vowed to before they open another branch. Oh wait, they just did. It’s in Potts Point and apparently even bigger. Anyway, I finally went to check out a couple of weeks ago, in what shall be known as 'Lau and Senhor R’s weekend of bakery madness', where we checked out Bourke Street Bakery Marrickville, Brasserie Bread in Banksmeadow and Sonoma Alexandria (twice). And when I say ‘checked out’ you of course understand that I mean ‘drank coffee and ate pastries at every single bakery.’]]> http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2011/11/bourke-street-bakery-marrickville/feed/ 10