The Grilled Cheese

What you see here is the menu board for The Grilled Cheese, a small restaurant in Kensington that serves nothing but (you guessed it) grilled cheese sandwiches.

My sandwich: The Beast

If someone orders this sandwich they will get, jalepeno harvarti, cheddar, bacon, turkey, onion, tomato and spinach.  Everything mixed together; the vegetables, the bacon, the cheese, blended together into incredible grilled goodness.  The bacon was sweet, like the kind you get at breakfast.

My Mom's sandwich: The Turk2000

This sandwich is one of their least complicated and most popular and is just made with cheddar, smoked turkey, onion and tomato.  My mother liked the pickle because it was tart , crisp and when you bit into it; cut the fattiness of the sandwich.

Nana's sandwich: Dill-licious

Nana made a lot of mmmmm noises when she bit into this sandwich.  Dill havarti, basil pesto, sundried tomatoes (and Nana had them NOT put onions on it) are the ingrediants in the Dill-licious.

Some people might the concept of The Grilled Cheese to just be a gimmick but they use quality ingrediants in gourmet combos.  These sandwiches are way better than Cheez Whiz on Wonder Bread.  You better come hungry because the food here is very rich but you want to finish eating it even as you’re getting full.  You won’t be disappointed and you’ll definately want to come back again.

The Grilled Cheese 66 Nassau Street

Chopsticks (Not the Song)

Sorry I have not written in awhile, but I’ve been busy during the summer,  mostly walking and eating.  We’ve tried out several different places that we are going to blog about in the future.  Speaking of the future (more on the chopsticks later), I have some ideas for new blogs and categories.  One thing I’d like to make clear is that some of these are just ideas and others may take awhile before I actually post them.

Because this is a blog for families and people that aren’t rich, I decided that I might have a category about Mall food.  We are going to start with the new Food Court that just opened in the Eaton Center, The Urban Eatery.

We also have a couple of ideas that are related to tv shows.  Restaurant Makeover  is one of those shows that actually take place in Toronto.  Because of this I decided that we could try out the ones featured on the show (if its’ still open) and see how they are doing now.  One of the other tv shows that we watch is called Anna & Kristina’s Grocery Bags.  We will try out some of the cookbooks that they review and maybe some of our own choices as well.

My sister Reighan and her partner Chris have just moved to Montreal.  So when we visit them we will obviously be eating out and we can blog about some of the places that we will visit.

And now back to the chopsticks.  Some of my subscribers have asked me if I use chopsticks when I eat Asian food.  I cannot use “real” chopsticks, but I never leave home without my “cheater” chopsticks in my knapsack.  Because you never know what or where we are going to eat next.

If you don’t know how to use chopsticks you don’t have to resort to spearing your food with them like a caveman. Put a folded piece of paper between the two sticks and wrap an elastic around the end. And voila, your own cheaters.