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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.

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

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

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

(lip smack sound)

By adamg on Thu, 11/14/2024 - 10:25pm.

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.

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.

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.