I finally made it to the Grilled Cheese Grill, a cart that also has a bus so you can eat your melted cheese and bread inside the toasty school bus if you don’t want to sit on the benches. The bus has lots of interesting art to look at on the ceiling, and Trivia Pursuit cards on the table, that is if you aren’t already having fun looking at all the old school photos that are printed on the table and bar. The photos I took were parts of the ceiling by our booth that particularly caught my eye: panda mailbox with panda-man, a hummingbird with an owl with horns visiting on its lap while pet mice crawl around it, striped bear-things and no-faces.
I greedily ordered two sandwiches and ate half of each. First was “The Hot Brie”: Melty Brie, Red Peppers, Tomato, and Spicy Mustard on Sourdough. This turned out more greasy then I liked, with the brie and red peppers getting mushy and squishing out of the sandwich.
The second sandwich, the “BABs”: bacon, Apples, Bleu Cheese, Swiss on Rye. A great mix of melty cheese with crunchy bacon and apples, I would get this again.
The next stop of our progressive eating (it started and ended at the Kennedy School, which is where we stayed for the weekend) was Alberta Co-op for snacks, and then Mash Tun Brew pub for a bacon bloody mary and some local beers. Our snack while we had our beverages was a pretty tasty “Tempeh Things”- fried tempeh, served buffalo or barbecue style (we asked for half and half as they weren’t too busy) with house-made veganaise. Both sauces were flavorful but in different ways- the spicy slightly drier buffalo, and the smokier, more sticky barbecue, and the crisp texture of the tempeh was a great vehicle, better then the traditional chicken wing since we could bite right in. The veganaise was not as good as a traditional ranch offering though, offering some of the creaminess but little more than that. Still, we were impressed how vegetarian friendly this brewpub was in providing a dozen decent options that weren’t just salads or hummus or a frozen veggie burger (they make their own veggie burger in fact here), and we wouldn’t mind coming back for a second visit to try a full meal.
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