https://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 https://www.corridorkitchen.com/2013/12/cafe-review-gumption-by-coffee-alchemy-sydney-cbd/ https://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. ]]> https://www.corridorkitchen.com/2013/12/cafe-review-gumption-by-coffee-alchemy-sydney-cbd/feed/ 9 https://www.corridorkitchen.com/2011/03/flint-and-steel-coffee-alchemy-marrickville/ https://www.corridorkitchen.com/2011/03/flint-and-steel-coffee-alchemy-marrickville/#comments Mon, 28 Feb 2011 18:42:02 +0000 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/?p=996 Flint and steel in Marrickville is one of the many cafés I’ve been itching to try for ages now. It's on Addison Road, one of those hip, up-and-coming main drags in the inner west, the kind of exposed, cracked and uneven arterial Marrickville Council road that make the City of Sydney Council look like an overbearing helicopter parent. It’s dotted sparingly with second hand furniture stores, Thai takeaways and of course, cafés. Apart from house hunting, a few trips to Reverse Garbage and the bogus Marrickville Organic Market (not all of it is organic, not all of the prices are marked), it’s a road I’ve been down without stopping many times. This is not a criticism of the Marrickville/Enmore border; far from it. Everything you need is there, but not so much that it’s overwhelming. You’re just outside the action, just outisde of Enmore/Newtown, a few bus stops from Sydney's Little Portugal and a half hour bus ride from the CBD. The area has a lot in common with my current home, Alexandria, with its wealth of industrial conversions, dog parks and cafés. But Alexandria is a 25 minute walk from the CBD and I’m one lazy blogger who cannot drive her boyfriend’s manual car, or any manual car for that matter, so it has always seemed quite far out to me. ]]> https://www.corridorkitchen.com/2011/03/flint-and-steel-coffee-alchemy-marrickville/feed/ 8