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/2013/07/5-cbr-coffee/ https://www.corridorkitchen.com/2013/07/5-cbr-coffee/#comments Mon, 01 Jul 2013 05:00:53 +0000 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/?p=5526 My not-so-secret dirty secret is that I was born in Canberra. An unlikely place for a caffeine fiend to develop a love of coffee, maybe, but as a result I'm a frequest visitor, and often asked for a list of coffee recommendations. A friend recently asked me for said list, which I've been meaning to write for some time now, and I decided it would better to leave you in the learned hands of my mate and resident Canberra coffee espert, Barrister Barista. Here's her 5 picks for Canberra caffeine hits.]]> https://www.corridorkitchen.com/2013/07/5-cbr-coffee/feed/ 5 https://www.corridorkitchen.com/2013/03/the-national-multicultural-festival-2013/ https://www.corridorkitchen.com/2013/03/the-national-multicultural-festival-2013/#comments Thu, 14 Mar 2013 22:34:09 +0000 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/?p=5223 The National Multicultural Festival, and every year I am oh so glad I did. This year it ran from the 8th to the 10th of February, and with 50 new stalls added to the lineup, I was curious to see where they’d fit them all... ]]> https://www.corridorkitchen.com/2013/03/the-national-multicultural-festival-2013/feed/ 2 https://www.corridorkitchen.com/2013/01/cafe-review-red-brick-espresso-curtain-canberra/ https://www.corridorkitchen.com/2013/01/cafe-review-red-brick-espresso-curtain-canberra/#comments Fri, 25 Jan 2013 04:14:42 +0000 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/?p=4961 Red Brick espresso is no exception. Milk crates are scattered plentifully out the front of this Curtin café, and they’ve taken it to another level with the accompanying tables, made of bread crates. I hope there’s not a delivery guy out Fyshwick way somewhere going broke for lack of crates. We stand at the counter for a while waiting to order, staff seem a little harried so we wait as they hand out the takeaways. We order coffee and seat ourselves in the unmistakeably Canberran, light-filled and cleverly renovated space, which, as we’re in the southside of Canberra, could’ve been anything in a past life- a house, a pharmacy, or a sex shop – all roads lead to rectangular brick structures. The guys behind the espresso machine look like they know what’s what – they roast their own coffee here, and are well and truly the third wave.]]> https://www.corridorkitchen.com/2013/01/cafe-review-red-brick-espresso-curtain-canberra/feed/ 2 https://www.corridorkitchen.com/2012/07/cafe-review-bread-nerds-hume-canberra/ https://www.corridorkitchen.com/2012/07/cafe-review-bread-nerds-hume-canberra/#comments Fri, 06 Jul 2012 03:45:40 +0000 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/?p=3849 When I was 12, I picked out our new house. Well, that’s how it felt to me anyway. Yes, I know it was really my mum who made the decision and handed over the cash. But the second I entered the place, with its rambling, north facing garden, wooden floors and loads of light, I felt at home. Looking back, I think it was that discovery of home that made my adolescence a time of relative sanity. It was also that feeling of having a home that made it so easy, 7 years later, to strike out with no real plan and very little money, enrol myself in art school, and force myself into a place where I would do something productive and wind my way to my own true home. I’m still looking for that home, both metaphorically and literally.]]> https://www.corridorkitchen.com/2012/07/cafe-review-bread-nerds-hume-canberra/feed/ 11 https://www.corridorkitchen.com/2012/05/farmer%e2%80%99s-daughter-yarralumla-canberra/ https://www.corridorkitchen.com/2012/05/farmer%e2%80%99s-daughter-yarralumla-canberra/#comments Thu, 17 May 2012 21:37:32 +0000 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/?p=3499 If you follow the cyclists, you’ll find a good cafe. Turns out those fixies mounted on the wall in your local trendy coffee house aren’t always just for decoration. I challenge you to find somewhere in this wide brown land more cycle friendly than our Nation’s Capital. Canberra has almost as many bike paths as there are roads and so it stands to reason there has to be more than one place to find a good macch. And so early one Canberra morning we rose with the cyclists and followed them to Farmer’s Daughter. Farmer’s Daughter is at the Yarralumla shops, an old and well-off suburb 5 minutes west of Parliament house. Yeah, like that’s how Canberrans give directions. Anyway, It’s just after 9:00am when we arrive, so we have our pick of tables. By 9:45 the place is pretty much full and the wait is long for those who want a 10:00 or 11:00 am breakky. The menus are on cute little clipboards and it’s one of those occasions where everything sounds enticing; enough adjectives to intrigue but not so many as to overwhelm. I consider the french toast, described as ‘soft toasted brioche slices served with fresh summer berries and lavender cream’, but I can never quite go past a savoury brunch and so I choose the fried egg bruschetta with romesco. Breakfast dishes hover around the $16 mark, so you know if it’s less than perfect I’ll be sending it back.]]> https://www.corridorkitchen.com/2012/05/farmer%e2%80%99s-daughter-yarralumla-canberra/feed/ 8