
For some of us grilled cheese is a comfort food with a type of built-in response that harkens to a safe time in our lives. It’s up there with the scent of vanilla or coffee in the morning with regards to a cultural Pavlovian response. So it is no surprise that two different restaurants are serving it up as a kind of ‘stimulus plan.’
Over at The Edison, grilled cheese, tomato soup and 35 cent cocktails have been part of their ‘Soup Kitchen’ every Friday from 5-7 pm. All proceeds for that cleverly tailored happy hour type promotion go toward the Midnight Mission – the oldest operating human services organization in Los Angeles.
Recently, Ivan Kane’s Cafe W as added a slew of promotions from discounted flask service (offered in paper bags) to the grilled cheese with fries. Granted, it’s $10, which seems a bit out of touch with the spirit of giving people a break. You can get a grilled cheese at Denny’s for $6.15. But, unlike Denny’s, a Cafe W as grilled cheese and fries (only served on Mondays) is presented in a brown paper bag.
Yum. Now I want grilled cheese.
Also, Campanile has been doing grilled cheese night every Thursday for years. Granted, it’s expensive (~$15?), but I suppose it’s “not your average grilled cheese” (as the phrase goes), and it’s cheaper than their regular menu.
I love grilled cheese, but what’s going on with the kid in the advertisement above? She’s a little creepy.
Grilled cheese and fries with a cup of Campbell’s Tomato soup and a tall glass of Coke in a fountain glass at the Woolworth’s lunch counter … a long-distant and warm childhood memory.
I went out and got a grilled cheese sandwich after ready this last night. Power of suggestion!
I like the classic.
white bread.
butter.
velveeta. no kidding it makes the best grilled cheese ever.
don’t forget: grilledcheeseinvitational!
Google it.
That picture is awesome, though it does seem as if the young lady is almost maniacally coveting a bite out of the hand that feeds her more than the grilled cheese sammie.
I promise you’ll all be the first to know when the GCI returns.