Grilled Cheese and Beer tasting: I owe you all an apology. I forgot to bring a copy of the menu home with me. It was amazing.
The night opened with Manouli with Arugula and honey, on some sort of sourdough. It was paired with a ginger-honey beer whose name escapes me. It was also truly excellent.Interestingly, the bread was toasted but without the cheese, which was added later. It made it a bit messy to eat, as the cheese was really crumbly.
Course two was some sort of danish goat cheese with asparagus on a bread that I forget but had enough flavor to stand up to the toppings. The beer was the Tenacious Traveler Shandy and was very good.
Course three was the most traditionally American Grilled Cheese of the evening. It was steak with some sort of cheddar on rye. It tasted like your good-old-fashioned-right-off-the-grill grilled cheese. The beer was an Ommegang Rare Vos. This was the bitterest beer of the evening, and was very good if you like bitter beer.
The fourth course was the best grilled cheese of the evening was a
triple-brie with granny smith apples and pear chutney on pumpkin bread.
It was paired with Dogfish Head Pumpkin Ale. Wow. Just Wow.
The final course was dessert and not technically grilled cheese - it was a Danish bread pudding with cherries, and an I-forget-what-but-very-sweet dessert beer. Very good. I admit that I'd have liked another serving of the triple brie for dessert, but it was pretty good nonetheless, and one of the better bread puddings I've had.
Overall, the evening was spectacular. I have never had such pinkie-finger-up grilled cheese. I will definitely go again, and highly encourage you to be inventive with your grilled cheese.
