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/2011/08/belljar-coffee-newtown/ http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2011/08/belljar-coffee-newtown/#comments Mon, 22 Aug 2011 20:45:20 +0000 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/?p=1910 something to be desired. Actually, if I’m honest, coffee was my first stop before we even got to Sydney. We were salivating for Allpress Espresso at Auckland airport, having solemnly downed out ‘last real coffee’ there on our way to South America. When we got to Auckland, I downed my mach and could not stop grinning, in spite of the 14 hour, Aerolineas Argentinas hell I had just endured. Real. Coffee. The second stop after dropping off our bags in Sydney was Don Campos nearby. The next morning, we were already on the hunt for somewhere new to try. After catching up on my blogroll I saw John over at He Needs Food had some good things to say about Belljar Espresso in Newtown, so we set off for Alice street.]]> http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2011/08/belljar-coffee-newtown/feed/ 9 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2011/05/cafe-review%e2%80%93miss-petty-cash-marrickville/ http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2011/05/cafe-review%e2%80%93miss-petty-cash-marrickville/#comments Mon, 30 May 2011 21:54:31 +0000 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/?p=1705 Who doesn’t love the inner west? With its rockabilly, gritty aesthetic, it’s mostly-gentrified streets, its plethora of ethnic restaurants. There’s always something to do, something to see. Every day is a photo opp for one of those clichéd photographic exhibitions City of Sydney puts on in Hyde Park about the real/dark side of/contrasting Sydney – a nun smiling arm in arm with a drag queen, a beaming Italian man out the front of his bakery next door to a brothel. It’s a Sydney that may or may not exist, depending on where you are and who you talk to.]]> http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2011/05/cafe-review%e2%80%93miss-petty-cash-marrickville/feed/ 12 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2011/02/the-kick-inside-erskineville/ http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2011/02/the-kick-inside-erskineville/#comments Mon, 21 Feb 2011 18:45:17 +0000 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/?p=944 One of the reasons I started writing Corridor Kitchen was as a means of stemming the tide of oft-walked-by places. I hoped that the cafés I had always wanted to check out would also be of interest to others, and that perhaps they, in turn, could suggest places to me. I wanted to develop a list of places that, in my opinion, are worth checking out. I had wanted to check out The Kick Inside in Erskineville for months, which in reality probably means about a year. I finally headed there a few weeks ago when I had run out of coffee at home. It was about 40 degrees that day and I felt sorry for the guys working there- big open front window, no air conditioning. It’s not a great place to go in summer as you find yourself sliding down the retro vinyl furniture in a most unrefined matter.]]> http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2011/02/the-kick-inside-erskineville/feed/ 14