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There are only so many grilled-cheese sandwiches Allston can eat

By adamg on Thu, 11/14/2024 - 4:51pm

Boston Restaurant Talk reports that Roxy's Grilled Cheese on Cambridge Street in Allston will fling its last cheesy comestible on Nov. 24. The outlet in Central Square in Cambridge, though, will remain open.

Neighborhoods: 
Allston
Topics: 
Dining
Free tagging: 
American food


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By Oi! Can Boyd on Thu, 11/14/2024 - 4:53pm.

For their closing most likely.

By MC Slim JB on Thu, 11/14/2024 - 9:22pm.

big sports game viewing party is to show up with seven or eight dozen Korean fried chicken wings (half gochuchang, half soy-garlic.) It's especially fun to watch kids try it for the first time: if they can handle the spice, that's all I ever hear about from them for the next two years.

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By Will LaTulippe on Thu, 11/14/2024 - 9:37pm.

Is a mandatory stop on every Boston visit for me now.

By ChrisInEastie on Fri, 11/15/2024 - 9:28am.

would easily survive. All but like 2 restaurants on Harvard Ave are Korean BBQ or some sort of Asian fusion now, most with pretty mid reviews. I love places like that but also miss when the area had plenty of other options.

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By Former Westroxer on Thu, 11/14/2024 - 8:33pm.

(lip smack sound)

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By adamg on Thu, 11/14/2024 - 10:25pm.
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By Gary C on Fri, 11/15/2024 - 11:07am.

The tension just builds until it can't be tolerated any longer. Classic absurdist humor.

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By Dennis Faucher on Mon, 11/18/2024 - 11:43am.

+1

By cdevers on Thu, 11/14/2024 - 9:50pm.

I worked in the neighborhood when Roxy’s opened, and it was fine and all, but I couldn’t get my head around the fact that “grilled cheese restaurant” is a thing that exists in the world.

I like a good grilled cheese sandwich, to be sure. I must have been four or five when my parents taught me how to make one, and I’ve had more than my share of them ever since.

But, like… that’s just it: it’s kid food, or cheap-o dorm food. Why pay $6.50 for one sandwich when you can get a loaf of bread & a packet of cheese &/or Velveeta for about the same price?

Looking at their menu now, I see that they didn’t offer peanut butter & jelly sandwiches, which was my other preschool sandwich staple. Or hot dogs, for that matter. Or milk.

If you’re gonna open up a kid food restaurant, you’ve gotta commit to that, by golly.

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By adamg on Thu, 11/14/2024 - 10:33pm.

It's a whole chain of grilled-cheese places that just opened an outlet in Dedham, at the rotary where what used to be Rte. 1 meets Washington Street, on the side of an apartment building where a liquor store used to be.

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By Don't Panic on Fri, 11/15/2024 - 1:07am.

The first one I ever saw was called UMelt in Downtown Providence RI back in the early 20 teens. A restaurant dedicated only to grilled cheese sandwiches totally blew my mind as well. It's permanently closed now so I think they are a fad.

By Plen-T-Pak on Fri, 11/15/2024 - 7:27am.

2009. Serve melted cheese and they will come. There's that fondue chain. Dip. It. All. In. CHEESE

By SwirlyGrrl on Fri, 11/15/2024 - 8:38pm.

There were food trucks - and one famous schoolbus - serving grilled cheese in the PDX Pods from the early 2000s. I think Austin had some before that.

There was another one out of Bend that worked the ski areas. Nothing like a morning in fresh powder at altitude to set you up to devour one of those beauties!

Many have closed, though.

Pods are dedicated permanent food truck and stall spaces. Younger folk working long hours tend to treat them like a college dining hall. You can get breakfast, lunch, dinner, and beer within a short walk.

By cybah on Fri, 11/15/2024 - 9:04am.

Its like these cookie places that keep popping up. I think eventually we'll see them close too.

Just like cupcakes. Remember when people were buying 10 dollar cupcakes?

Single-item places just do not last. Eventually the fad will end and places just close.

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By AdamA on Fri, 11/15/2024 - 2:48pm.

The corndog place in davis sq you can get a corndog with hot cheeto dust on it

By cdevers on Fri, 11/15/2024 - 3:04pm.

…clearly, if the grilled cheese people had partnered up with the corndog people, the grilled cheese people wouldn’t be closing their restaurant now.

(But if the corndog people want to kick things up a notch, they can go beyond Cheetos and start offering sides of Goldfish crackers, and Kraft mac & cheese…)

By Just walkin' on Fri, 11/15/2024 - 9:32am.

If you are out and about on the Pike and need a grilled cheese fix, Cheesy Street Grill in the Natick and Westborough service plazas is surprisingly great. Quite a surprise to have discovered them recently.

Sandwiches are made to order, so not very fast though.

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By Gary C on Fri, 11/15/2024 - 11:10am.

Good sandwiches and a good fit for hungry sports fans.