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    Best Grilled Cheese in the US

    By foodandwine.com | Shine Food – Wed, Feb 22, 2012 5:00 PM EST




    By Food & Wine

    The best grilled cheese sandwich is the gooiest grilled cheese, says Laura Werlin, the James Beard Award-winning cookbook author behind Grilled Cheese, Please! "After you bite into it, the cheese should stretch out past your face as far as your arm will reach. Otherwise, it's just not right." While it's easy to achieve some level of crunchy, buttery excellence at home, chefs and restaurateurs are creating exceptional grilled cheese sandwiches across the country. Here, Food & Wine presents the Best Grilled Cheese in the U.S.

    Perfect grilled cheese at Grahamwich in Chicago. Grahamwich
    Chicago, IL

    Graham Elliot Bowles is known for playful cuisine at Graham Elliot, and the sandwiches at his take-out joint, Grahamwich, are equally inventive. The grilled cheese on sliced Pullman loaf features Wisconsin cheddar, prosciutto, tomato marmalade and cheese curds, which, when melted, add an extra soft, gooey effect. Photo Courtesy of Grahamwich.


    Gooey grilled cheese at The American Grilled Cheese Kitchen in San Francisco. The American Grilled Cheese Kitchen
    San Francisco, CA

    Heidi Gibson was an engineer with degrees from MIT. Then she won the national Grilled Cheese Invitational and opened this shop in the city's multimedia gulch. Tech geeks come for well-constructed sandwiches like the Mousetrap, with cheddar, Havarti and Monterey Jack on artisanal sourdough. Photo © The Cooking Channel.


    A grilled cheese sandwich at Roxy's Grilled Cheese in Boston. Roxy's Grilled Cheese
    Boston, MA

    With respect to Boston baseball (and Fenway Park's famed left-field wall "The Green Monster"), Roxy's offers the Green Muenster, with guacamole and bacon. Here, too, mac and cheese is considered a sandwich filling for the Mac & Chorizo. In an ingenious twist, Roxy's brushes mayonnaise on the outside of sandwiches, rather than butter, before slapping them on the griddle. Photo © Zac Wolf.


    Grilled cheese at Clementine in Los Angeles. Clementine
    Los Angeles, CA

    Chef-owner Annie Miler got so excited about her bakery-café's 10th Annual Celebration of Grilled Cheese Month in April 2011, she offered 10 variations each week. A year-round favorite: extra-sharp white Tillamook cheddar on country white with bacon or roasted cherry tomatoes. Photo Courtesy of Clementine.



    Grilled cheese at Beecher's Handmade Cheese in Seattle. Beecher's Handmade Cheese
    Seattle, WA and New York, NY

    This Pike Place Market fixture recently expanded to New York with a big boutique and production facility. Each location grills its signature Flagship cheese-a slightly nutty blend of cheddar and Gruyère cultures-with fillings like tomato and basil. Each location also uses local bread: In Seattle, it's from Grand Central Bakery; Harlem nonprofit Hot Bread Kitchen provides excellent loaves in NYC. Photo © Andie Diemer.


    Grilled cheese at Grilled Cheese & Co. in Catonsville, MD. Grilled Cheese & Co.
    Catonsville, MD

    This mini-chain now has three locations in Maryland. Regional flavor comes through in a signature Crabby Melt with Jack cheese on top of homemade "crabby dip." Among the current specials is the Hermanator, designed by NASCAR driver Kenny Wallace: provolone, turkey breast and pickles with honey-mustard sauce. Photo Courtesy of Grilled Cheese & Co.


    Grilled cheese at Artisanal in NYC. Artisanal Fromagerie, Bistro and Wine Bar
    New York, NY

    Ever since Terrance Brennan met his first runny, robust Époisses in the early 1980s, he has dedicated himself to cooking with cheeses. During lunch at Artisanal, the menu highlights several in sandwiches like The Big Cheese, featuring Fontina, Taleggio, Gruyère and Emmenthaler, and the chichi Frenchie with Brie, mushrooms and black truffles. Photo © Sarah Lemoncelli.


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    • Dan M
      Dan M  •  2 months ago
      My Mom made the best grilled cheese sandwiches ever!
      R.I.P. Mom. You were the best.
      • TWISTEDBITCH
        TWISTEDBITCH 2 months ago
        awww that was sweet
      • Eric N
        Eric N 2 months ago
        My Mom would make them and cut them into 4ths and serve them with chicken noodle soup. One of my fondest memories of my mother as well.
      • Harvester of Souls
        Harvester of Souls 2 months ago
        Mom always made the best food there is !
    • kathy becker
      kathy becker  •  2 months ago
      My favorite is to slice a ripe tomato, put it between two slices of artisan bread with mozzarella and cheddar cheese, a whisper of oregano and 'Butt-ah" grill till melted and brown ;D Making me hungry!!
      • Smokes
        Smokes 2 months ago
        To Me mozzarella has always seemed like tasteless useless Calories. But Your Idea of Cheddar oregano,and butter sounds like a grilled cheese Foodgasm! Yummy!
      • ChristiS
        ChristiS 2 months ago
        Thank you - now know what dinner is going to be! :D
      • KNS1290
        KNS1290 2 months ago
        That literally had my mouth watering. I will have to try that soon, probably tonight!
    • Rob
      Rob  •  Portland, Maine  •  2 months ago
      Bread, cheese, butter, grill. All that other crap can go in some salad or something !
      • Allied cake
        Allied cake 2 months ago
        Skip the butter and the grill and give me just the iron skillet
      • Mr.Joshua
        Mr.Joshua 2 months ago
        Don't forget the pickles!
      • Tum
        Tum 2 months ago
        how can they NOT get something that basic? leave the grilled cheese as is without adding all the other fancy schmancy ingredients!
    • katherine m
      katherine m  •  2 months ago
      Grilled cheese with Campbells tomato soup!! mmmmmm
      • Miss Chris
        Miss Chris 2 months ago
        The ultimate comfort food!
      • Bonnie
        Bonnie 2 months ago
        Take comfort, just eat 1/2 a grilled cheese and a little tomato soup. If you can stop there, you might be okay. I've lost 100 lbs and I didn't give up anything except portion size. Sometimes I only eat 1/4 of a sandwich and then some celery and carrot sticks to fill me up all the way.
      • Smokes
        Smokes 2 months ago
        Campbell soup tastes like salt water to me.Can I just eat 2 grilled cheese Sammiches? HAHAH
    • DrunkenDonuts®
      DrunkenDonuts®  •  2 months ago
      If a grilled cheese sandwich has any other major ingredient than, uh, cheese, it ceases to be a grilled cheese sandwich.
      • M Kat
        M Kat 2 months ago
        I agree. I love grilled ham and cheese sandwiches, but I never call them grilled cheese . . . because they're not!!!
      • CoolWisdomPrevails
        CoolWisdomPrevails 2 months ago
        Precisely my point too.
      • GHIGGS
        GHIGGS 2 months ago
        Would you say that about a Cheeseburger w/ the works? No! You'de still call it a cheeseburger!
    • Expat
      Expat  •  2 months ago
      NONE of these sandwiches are "grilled cheese sandwiches." They're "sandwiches" that's it! They may be good; they may be delicious, but DON'T go confusing some crap with ham and marmalade on it as a grilled cheese.
      Call me traditional, but there's a reason they're called grilled cheese and others are not.
    • BGoode
      BGoode  •  2 months ago
      I can't recall a single time I ordered a grill cheese at a restaurant. Every time I see one on the menu for $5 I think about the $.13 slice of cheese, the two $.09 pieces of bread and then realize that I can make one in three minutes for about $.35. I just can't bring myself to order something so simple for so much.
    • Cavs Time!
      Cavs Time!  •  Cleveland, Ohio  •  2 months ago
      How is The Melt in Cleveland, Ohio NOT on this list?!
    • David
      David  •  Springfield, Missouri  •  2 months ago
      i make my grilled cheese with ironkids bread and velveeta slices and a bowl of tomato soup
    • Tara Blesener
      Tara Blesener  •  Berea, Ohio  •  2 months ago
      How the heck is The Melt Bar and Grill in cleveland, ohio not mentioned!!! That place is amazing when it comes to their different grilled cheeses.
    • Mack
      Mack  •  2 months ago
      2 slices Wonder bread
      1 slice Kraft American Single (remove plastic for best flavor)
      butter

      That's all it takes.
    • Liz
      Liz  •  2 months ago
      This article pissedme off!! Im on a diet and now my feelings are hrt cause I want a grilled cheese sandwich
    • Eric
      Eric  •  Chattanooga, Tennessee  •  2 months ago
      I'm from Chattanooga, TN and I do not know how you do not put Melt Bar and Grilled on this list!!! Increible! If you ever get to Cleveland, Ohio go to Melt!! You will thank me later!
    • Tony
      Tony  •  2 months ago
      This list is a joke: Where is Melt in Lakewood, OH?
    • NCA
      NCA  •  Westlake, Ohio  •  2 months ago
      HELLO! Melt Bar and Grilled....THE best grilled cheese in Lakewood (Cleveland), OH! Brian T, you're right-the competition would not stand up to these guys. Was featured on various Food Network and other cooking channels.
    • Doug D
      Doug D  •  3 months ago
      A true grilled cheese sandwich is cheese and bread. All the sandwiches mentioned are cheese, something else, and bread.
    • Donna
      Donna  •  Newark, New Jersey  •  2 months ago
      For An Extra .50 Cents You can Get A Burger On Your Grill Cheese!!
    • Bonnie
      Bonnie  •  2 months ago
      Anyone ever tried Muenster cheese on a grilled cheese sandwich? Talk about cheese that melts so fine and stretches out as far as you can reach! Yum! I think, not sure, Muenster might be a better cheese caloriewise then Velvetta. Oh wow, wish I had one right now!
    • ernessch
      ernessch  •  Tulsa, Oklahoma  •  2 months ago
      White bread, commodity cheese and commodity butter. Couldn't beat it. It was a 1960's thing. I ate that one summer when my dad was injured and couldn't work. Thankfully we didn't have food stamps back then.
    • ChrisH
      ChrisH  •  Cleveland, Ohio  •  2 months ago
      My grandma made the best grilled cheese sandwich, sorry mom. Now its my wife that makes the best grilled cheese sandwiches. It's that extra ingredient called love. Great, reading his article about cheese sandwiches made my heart melt.
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