Large crispy grilled cheese sandwiches dripping with butter.

Entrance:

I was walking up 9th Avenue, trying to decide at which of the many restaurants I could get a quick late lunch, when I saw “Say Cheese!” in big orange and yellow letters and was immediately won over by the name alone. Mmm cheeese!
Say Cheese is a small store that specializes in grilled cheese sandwiches. Square tables for 2 line the brick walls right up to the kitchen in the back.

Mama’s Special combo $6.50
bowl of tomato soup (normally $3 for a cup) and basic grilled cheese (normally $4.25)

To start off, we got the soup of the day, Tomato & Cheddar. The soup was really hot, a bit thin and watery (I had anticipated a thick and creamy soup) but very smooth on the tongue. It was pretty addicting, and tasted like a liquid spaghetti or pizza! Tomato sauce and cheese flavors and a smooth lightly creamy starchiness that reminded me of pasta.

Basic grilled cheese with provolone.

A basic grilled cheese, just like the name suggests. Melted stringy provolone cheese between 2 large crispy slices of sourdough bread. They make the grilled cheese here really buttery.

Florentine Melt $6.75
Fresh Spinach + Roasted Garlic + Mushroom + Melted Jack Cheese topped w/olive oil on Black Olive Bread

Lots of juicy spinach and mushrooms, sort of like a veggie stirfry, between melty cheese and crisp bread. There are black olive bits in the bread which give the sandwich a nice salty flavor.

Curly Fries $3.00

Crisp and peppery curly fries right out of the fryer.

Say Cheese makes grilled cheese pretty much like Grilled Cheese NYC and the Original New York Milkshake Company downtown, both of which, upon googling, I found to have *gasp!!!* closed earlier this year! That makes me sad. Anyway, Say Cheese also has potato and macaroni salads, tuna and meat grilled cheese variations and quite a bit of choices of smoothies.

Receipt:
1 Mama’s Special: Provolone 6.50
Florentine Melt 6.75
Curly Fries 3.00
total+tax= $17.65 (lunch for 2)

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