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. read more