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Grate expectations: cheese toasties are having a moment, and I’m all for it | Lauren O'Neill
news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 7 April
The comfort-food staple has been given a culinary glow-up and is suddenly the toast of the town. What’s not to like?
A dispatch from the menus of the capital’s fancier pubs, Instagram restaurants and wine bars: there’s a new favourite dish in town. Though maybe “new” is the wrong word. Cropping up in the types of establishments where you’ll easily pay a fiver for olives is the humble but universally beloved cheese toastie.
I’d call it a renaissance, but that would ignore the fact that the toastie is and has been for decades a staple of busy lunches, sick days and CBA dinners, when all you’re after is instant satisfaction. Let’s say instead, then, that the cheese toastie has had a bit of a culinary glow-up.
Lauren O’Neill is a culture writer
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