Grill My Cheese

4 stars for the cheese dusted French fries we had today at the South Bank in London. I don’t know what else happened to these fries besides being exposed to cheese dust but they’re amazing! Take the time to find Grill My Cheese.

The best cheese toasties in town. Funny names (Justin Brieber etc) and innovative toasties, have a G.M.C. For a classic and the Baby Got Mac for a decadent treat: pulled pork and mac and cheese.

Recently was on Leather Lane and saw this stand. There was a sign that said it was the Number 1 Streetfood to «try before you die» according to Buzzfeed, which is why I did try it. I’m not usually a fan of grilled cheese, but this may have changed my mind. It was the best grilled cheese I’ve ever had! So toasty, so crisp, and the cheese was oozing and hot. As someone visiting from the U.S., I can say this is definitely a must. Their staple item is the grilled mac and cheese, but it came with meat. I wish they had it without meat for the vegetarians and vegans out there, because I had to default to the plain grilled cheese that didn’t have any macaroni!

Nothing like the smell of cheese being grilled in a delicious sandwich with pulled pork. I for one am a big fan of it.
You can find Grill My Cheese at the Friday market of Southbank Centre and I definitely think you need to try a sandwich. The cheese one is £6 and the pork one £6.50 and they are both delicious. In terms of street food this is a good one.

I saw «Grill my cheese» on several «Best streetfood in London» lists always next to a sumptuous picture of melted cheese seeping out of sour dough bread. It looked amazing.
I put eating a Grill my Cheese toastie on my bucket list of things to do before I die. That’s how far the obsession with them got.
As it turns out eating a cheese toastie is a pretty achievable dream… so it wasn’t long before I found myself spending the majority of my lunch break trekking to Leather Lane market like it was some kind of pilgrimage and then waiting impatiently in line for ten minutes, jealously watching everyone else claim their toasties.
Obviously it was hyped up so much in my head that I could only be disappointed. Firstly I ordered the wrong thing. I should have gone all out and got one of their mac and cheese toasties in order to really comatose myself for my afternoon back in the office. But I wanted the pure experience so I got their signature cheese blend toastie and added some BBQ sauce. The staff running the stall were lovely, even when I involuntarily pulled a face when I got a Scottish bank note as change.
But the toastie, as good as it was, unfortunately wasn’t the best toastie I’d had. It was a little bit undercooked which could be due to how busy they were but it meant that the cheese wasn’t really stringy. I thought the toastie at Trade (on Commercial Street) was better.
However, I will definitely be back maybe at one of the Friday and Saturday nights where they are open late in Dalston to try something more adventurous.

Americans in London. We’re taking over, and we’re bring our food with us. You hear us complaining all the time:
«Where’s the good Mexican?»
«Where can I get a good burger?»
«This isn’t like we’d get back in the States!»
Luckily, I’ve managed to find quite a few places that have taken American food and done it well. Luckily Grill My Cheese is one of them.
I happened to find them at UCL. UCL does a Christmas concert thing in the main quad, and there are lots of stalls selling food and other goods there. This is where I had my first Grill My Cheese experience.
As an American, I love a good grilled cheese. So I was eager to see what they had in store. Interestingly, they don’t make your ordinary grilled cheese sandwiches, but they have made them even more crazily American than you can imagine. What was on mine? Cheese (duh), Macaroni and Cheese (another hard thing to find done well in the UK), pulled pork and BBQ sauce. It’s like an American buffet on a sandwich. And the sandwich was pretty fantastic. Seriously. It could have possibly used a bit more BBQ sauce to pull it all together, but I devoured the thing pretty quickly.
Other flavors include the one I had minus the pork, the «Na’cho cheese» with mac and cheese, salsa, corn chips and sour cream, and the «Hey Pesto» with mac and cheese, pesto and tomatoes.
I did question the clearly non-​American owner about the use of Mac and cheese on a sandwich. I find it quite unusual. She seemed to think that it was fairly common. Maybe it’s something that occurred post-​emigration. I don’t know. After eating the sandwich, I clearly didn’t question the idea anymore. Gotta love a carb on carb sandwich!
Next time, I’m going to try the Mexican style one.