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| - As my profile states - "will run for grilled cheese sandwiches", I definitely couldn't pass up the chance to try this place out as I walked by it today.
Love the fact that there's a resto in my area dedicated to grilled cheese sandwiches. For that concept alone, it's automatically starts at 3 stars in my books.
For my first foray into The Construction Site (and there will be more forays in the future, believe you me), I decided on The Classic (Aged Cheddar between two slices of French white bread). After all, how can you truly judge a grilled cheese sandwich if not in its purest, nakedest form... melted cheese and buttered bread.
Long and short, it was deliciously tasty... this is where the 4th star makes its appearance. The cheese was perfectly and evenly melted all over. The buttered slices of bread toasted crisply giving a satisfying crunch with every bite (though, I was left wishing the bread was a tad thicker in slicing... I love me some crisp crunch with the soft underbelly of bread fluff).
The accompanying chips were good. Not spectacular. Rosemary-flavoured rippled chips, more or less, but literally chips (think thick cut Ruffles potato chips, not the British sense of fish and chips). A tad on the frequently-wiping-fingers-on-the-napkin side of oily but you could see the pieces of rosemary mingling amongst the chips classing it up a bit.
Would've been nice to see a salad substitute option without having to pay an additional $5 for a caprese salad. Sometimes it's just a side salad kind of day.
Oh, and an additional note for hot sauce lovers... it looked like they had green and red tabasco sauce on hand... which is weak sauce (yes - pun intended) when it comes to hot sauces but does the job in a pinch when a little more heat is desired for dipping grilled cheeses.
All in all, a delicious lunch of my favourite sandwich of all time. I will be returning to try out some of the other options on the menu but sometimes, all a girl wants is a decent grilled cheese and somebody else to make it for her. The Construction Site fulfills that need.
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