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/2013/12/3-williams-redfern/ http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2013/12/3-williams-redfern/#comments Fri, 06 Dec 2013 07:48:52 +0000 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/?p=6185 It’s interesting to watch the buzz around a new cafe build over time. The first few times I popped in to Three Williams in Redfern, it was pretty empty, but then again, it’s a fair bit larger than your average Redfern haunt. Locals and cafe addicts were coming and going and I could see that interest was building. Last week, my instagram feed was littered with brekky porn shots from the soon-to-be Redfern fixture, street press had written them up, and last Sunday arvo I walked past and there was not a table to spare. ]]> http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2013/12/3-williams-redfern/feed/ 6 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2013/05/the-rag-land-smokey-o%e2%80%99s-popup-13-14-may-2013/ http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2013/05/the-rag-land-smokey-o%e2%80%99s-popup-13-14-may-2013/#comments Thu, 30 May 2013 22:11:59 +0000 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/?p=5436 From home supper clubs to warehouse dinners, popups are all the rage these days, and the hype isn’t always warranted. But in the case of Smokey O’s slow southern style bbq, it certainly is, and a staunch band of devotees flock to their pork in the park lunches and regular appearances at north of the bridge market stalls to fill their bellies with bee bee cue goodness. So when I found out they were popping up at my local cafe, The Rag Land, I knew I had to go and get a taste of whatever Americana-inspired breakfast/brunch/lunch treats they’d have on offer.]]> http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2013/05/the-rag-land-smokey-o%e2%80%99s-popup-13-14-may-2013/feed/ 3 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2012/09/cafe-review-the-rag-land/ http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2012/09/cafe-review-the-rag-land/#comments Thu, 20 Sep 2012 22:51:46 +0000 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/?p=4386 Time was if I told someone I lives in Alexandria, I’d have to explain where it was. Usually I’d just say Redfern. More recently, mention Alexandria and you conjur up images of chic warehouse hotspots like The Grounds or Kitchen by Mike. That’s just dandy, but those are hardly ‘stroll-in-for-a-quick-coffee’ joints. So it is with a touch of trepidation I begin this post on The Rag Land, a new cafe on Raglan street in Waterloo which is relatively unknown. A couple of weeks ago they liked me on facebook and when I saw where they were located, my heart skipped a beat and I liked them back. And when I read that they serve Golden Cobra Coffee, of which I am a fan, I was extra psyched to give them a go.]]> http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2012/09/cafe-review-the-rag-land/feed/ 6 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/2011/04/cafe-review-%e2%80%93-coffee-tea-me-redfern/ http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2011/04/cafe-review-%e2%80%93-coffee-tea-me-redfern/#comments Mon, 25 Apr 2011 20:25:04 +0000 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/?p=1471 I was looking up City of Sydney planning applications that very day to try and figure out when they’d get permission for outdoor furniture – I figured that’s when they’d open. I walked past most days ‘just to check it out.’ Soon a tantalisingly nonspecific ‘coming soon’ sign materialised. I checked out other cafés, but I wasn’t interested in any other cafés. I wanted to check out Coffee tea & me.]]> http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2011/04/cafe-review-%e2%80%93-coffee-tea-me-redfern/feed/ 9