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/2014/02/the-reformatory-caffeine-lab-surry-hills/ https://www.corridorkitchen.com/2014/02/the-reformatory-caffeine-lab-surry-hills/#comments Fri, 14 Feb 2014 06:37:33 +0000 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/?p=6335 ]]> https://www.corridorkitchen.com/2014/02/the-reformatory-caffeine-lab-surry-hills/feed/ 5 https://www.corridorkitchen.com/2012/08/cafe-review-cowbell-808/ https://www.corridorkitchen.com/2012/08/cafe-review-cowbell-808/#comments Thu, 23 Aug 2012 21:25:39 +0000 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/?p=4241 Stuff That I Bought. What’s more, she told me her idea for The Potluck Club, so it was a pretty mach a business meeting, yeah? The Cowbell 808 menu is a 1-pager, listing 13 items. Its a fusion of ingredients and cuisines, served up cafe style, presenting a mish mash of meal times. It’s not the usual suspects ingredients-wise, although weirdly, its what you’d expect. House made is the word du jour; these guys make everything from their own yogurt, to their own bacon. Now that's hardcore. ]]> https://www.corridorkitchen.com/2012/08/cafe-review-cowbell-808/feed/ 6 https://www.corridorkitchen.com/2012/07/cafe-review-le-monde-surry-hills/ https://www.corridorkitchen.com/2012/07/cafe-review-le-monde-surry-hills/#comments Thu, 19 Jul 2012 21:39:02 +0000 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/?p=3961 We don’t often have house guests as we live in a 1 bedder, but I always enjoy it when people come to stay. Last weekend I had the pleasure of hosting little bro 1 and his wife, up from Melbourne for a few days, and since little bro 2 lives in my hood now, it’s a weekend I’m dubbing ‘Sydney Quinns’. My mum made an appearance as well, although she’s no Quinn. It’s nice to be surrounded by family, I’m always surprised by how much I miss them. Guess you never grow out of that. The only thing requested by little bro 1 (besides a trip to the dip, which I thought was open Mondays but was very much mistaken) was a decent breakky. We decided on a Monday morning breakfast and I was thinking Bang Bang, but Le Monde was on the way and had been on my neverending to-try list for almost a year. I’m freaking out a bit now not only at the size of the list but at the number of places that close down before I get to try them. The menu looked good and I’d heard tell of excellent coffee so in we went. Cross that one of the list and add ten more...]]> https://www.corridorkitchen.com/2012/07/cafe-review-le-monde-surry-hills/feed/ 3 https://www.corridorkitchen.com/2012/07/cafe-review-bangbang-espresso-bar-and-cafe/ https://www.corridorkitchen.com/2012/07/cafe-review-bangbang-espresso-bar-and-cafe/#comments Thu, 12 Jul 2012 21:33:13 +0000 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/?p=3916 I got an email about a month ago with the subject heading ‘Blast from the Buenos Aires past’. It was from a friend I’d made in Argentina nearly four years ago. We’d spent a week together trawling through markets and drinking 1 litre beers. Weirdly, she was from Adelaide, but now she was writing to tell me she’d moved to Sydney. We arranged to meet for (what else) coffee with her delightful beau and Canberra Caffeine-o-phile Barrister Barista (aka @canberrachino). The four of us met at Surry Hills’ Bang Bang Espresso, which had been on my to-blog list for at least a year. Funnily enough, former DJ Alan Thompson started Bang Bang in 2009, exactly when my pal and I had been traipsing all over BA without a decent coffee in sight. An email from Alan inviting me round to the cafe for a free meal which I, dripping with reluctant integrity, turned down, served as a reminder not to leave Bang Bang on the list for much longer. ]]> https://www.corridorkitchen.com/2012/07/cafe-review-bangbang-espresso-bar-and-cafe/feed/ 6 https://www.corridorkitchen.com/2011/10/cafe-review-%e2%80%93-joe-black-surry-hills/ https://www.corridorkitchen.com/2011/10/cafe-review-%e2%80%93-joe-black-surry-hills/#comments Tue, 11 Oct 2011 05:40:43 +0000 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/?p=2232 I say I don’t like trends or fads, but of course the fact is, I like the ones that suit me. And I recognise that an interior of a café aims to communicate a message. The kind of coffee place I’m drawn to says ‘We take our coffee seriously, but we have a sense of humour. Oh and btw, The shot in your macchiato will be really REALLY short.’ Since I want a veeeery short mach, I ‘read’ the vintage/industrial aesthetic as a guarantee of the kind of ‘product’ I want. This marketing works on me. And I appreciate the aesthetic for its own sake, and of course an interior designer knows that that’s exactly what a customer like me will do. ]]> https://www.corridorkitchen.com/2011/10/cafe-review-%e2%80%93-joe-black-surry-hills/feed/ 3