The flavor combos at
Friendly Toast may seem a little bonkers upon first read of the menu, and they are, but just have faith. A mojito milkshake? Falafel burrito? A grilled cheese made with both cheddar and American on cayenne-cheddar bread (cheese on cheese!) with an olive-garlic spread and strawberry-habanero dipping sauce?
Wait, come again? But the
DGGC, which acronymizes Damn Good Grilled Cheese, lives up to its name.
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This
Serious Eats Grilled Cheese Honor Roll doesn't discriminate between basic and fancypants grilled cheese sandwiches, as long as it's irresistibly delicious. This is just a short list, so please chime in with any we left out.
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It should come as no surprise that a grilled cheese sandwich courtesy of the fine cheese mavens at Cowgirl Creamery is a truly excellent one. While
Cowgirl Creamery Sidekick, their cafe-style counter at the Ferry Building, has many delicious, dairy-centric options, it's hard to order anything other than the
grilled cheese of the day.
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The
Grilled Cheese ($9) at the
South Philly Tap Room is filled with gooey gouda and Muenster, spilling puddles of oozy cheesiness out the sides. The bread is buttered and grilled dark and crisp. The sandwich, which arrives cut in half, also comes with a cup of chunky
tomato lager soup finished with a drizzle of olive oil. The sandwiches at the Taproom are a big draw, but their beer list is equally thrilling. I paired my grilled cheese with a
Founders IPA ($5) with enough bite to stand up to this cheesemonster of a sandwich.
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Don't ask me why, but April is National Grilled Cheese Month, and to celebrate, the Food Network ran Bobby Flay's exciting Grilled Cheese Throwdown this past weekend. Flay took on New Jersey's own Pop Shop in a sandwich battle for the ages.
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I lived in Los Angeles for a few years and have often gone there for business, but until I read Jennifer Steinhauer's article in the New York Times, I had no idea that it had become the grilled cheese (fancy-pants and otherwise) capital of the U.S. and maybe the world. She describes the grilled cheese sandwich in L.A. as "an object of outright mania." She makes it sound as if grilled cheese sandwiches are the closest thing Los Angelenos have to their own organized religion. But I, too, am a grilled cheese maniac, and I figure a lot of you are, so today I am soliciting entries for the Serious Eats Grilled Cheese Honor Roll. Why?...
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