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/2011/11/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 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2011/11/sonoma-bakery-cafe-alexandria/ http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2011/11/sonoma-bakery-cafe-alexandria/#comments Mon, 14 Nov 2011 20:14:39 +0000 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/?p=2512 Weekend breakky used to be one of my favourite rituals. I had my places, I had my fave orders. But lately, it’s kind of fallen off the radar. So a couple of weeks ago, Senhor R and I jumped in the car and went to one of our all-time best breakky haunts, only to be greeted by sad, overpriced food and lacklustre service. We vowed never again to set out on a breakfast quest without a place in mind. Having heard good things about Sonoma Bakery Café, the relatively new Sonoma HQ, we decided to head southwards for something new. We were greeted by a huge warehouse space, Allpress-like in its interior. An order-and-pay-at-counter affair, said counter was laden with delicious looking sandwiches and pastry. As we stood surveying the offerings, a barista offered us the breakky menu. Easy to see it was out first visit. ]]> http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2011/11/sonoma-bakery-cafe-alexandria/feed/ 13 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2011/09/brasserie-bread-grains-and-seeds-workshop/ http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2011/09/brasserie-bread-grains-and-seeds-workshop/#comments Thu, 08 Sep 2011 21:26:39 +0000 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/?p=1973 A couple of weeks ago, I was lucky enough to be invited to a bread making workshop as Brasserie Bread in Banksmeadow. Silly me, I got Banksmeadow mixed up with Beaconsfield and so I found myself on a bus down Botany road at 10:35am, starting to panic. It’s a long way to Banksmeadow and I’ve learnt my lesson for next time. Of course I needn’t have worried, as I entered the post-industrial café and through to the baking classroom I was greeted by a bunch of young ladies wielding state-of-the-art SLR’s – food bloggers. Brasserie Bread Training Manager Matthew Brock welcomes me offered me a drink and a disposable apron (damn, I knew I forgot something!]]> http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2011/09/brasserie-bread-grains-and-seeds-workshop/feed/ 8 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2011/05/cafe-review-%e2%80%93-la-banette-glebe/ http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2011/05/cafe-review-%e2%80%93-la-banette-glebe/#comments Mon, 16 May 2011 21:24:19 +0000 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/?p=1602 You may not know this about me, but I’m a sucker for a striped awning. Anyone clever enough to attach one to the outside of their cake shop/patisserie/boulangerie/espresso bar (because that’s where you always seem to find them) has a good chance of piquing my interest. And if it’s a sunny Saturday morning and I’ve ‘forgotten’ to have breakfast before Senhor R and I go out for coffee, your chances increase exponentially. Thus ‘La Banette’ has always been referred to by me as ‘the place in Glebe with the yellow striped awning’. I don’t spend much time in Glebe because I find the coffee to be as it is in Newtown – a few brilliant places dotted here and there, but you gotta know where to look. And while in Newtown I have a fairly good idea (Campos, Vargabar Espresso, The Old Fish Cafe, Berkelouw Books), in Glebe I have no clue. And I’m usually too damned lazy to find out.]]> http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2011/05/cafe-review-%e2%80%93-la-banette-glebe/feed/ 7