Melted Cheese

Grilled Cheese with Tomato Soup (Hotel Utah, SF)

Hotel Utah may have the best variety of melted cheese available anywhere in San Francisco. From their unique fried-provolone sandwich to well-executed standards like Mac & Cheese.

Today their blackboard had a special written small in the corner:

Grilled Cheese w/ Tomato Soup, $7.50.

I couldn’t pass it up.

As you can see, great presentation of a hearty tomato soup and well-toasted whole wheat with to slices of cheddar. The sandwich is dry, and while I prefer buttery, this is great for dipping.

Blogging this from the iPhone, almost finished with my meal and back to work… with a warm belly.

[UPDATE... about 5 minutes later...]

prepped ingredients for Perivision

Get on over to Perivision’s iphone blog for Chris’s How-To on the midnight grilled cheese. His secrets involve heirloom tomato and turkey-based pepperoni.

Pesto, avocado, tomato. Sounded like a bit much when I really just wanted cheese, but the result is balanced and exceedingly pleasant. Or is that the dry vodka martini?

The dozen motocrcles hanging from the ceiling and the warm room make for a great escape on a rainy San Francisco Sunday afternoon on 2nd street.

Tim’s Grilled Cheese last weekend and Eddie’s Tweet about Bianca at the Laughing Squid Lucky 13 tonight force me to post again today before heading to the party…

Deepest night
perhaps cold pre-dawn
Enormous tent

I hear
“Bread Plus Cheese Equals Love.”

Platter of grilled cheese
walks by

Mmmmm.
Giant jar of wine
takes two
to tip it to my lips

bianca Loves You.

Grilled Cheese
forever
has new meaning

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I couldn’t believe how slow… and how good!

Camped in a wonderful place outside Willits, CA last weekend with a hundred or so friends.

I was ill with a stomach bug, foregoing food much of the trip. Monday morning I felt like I could finally keep something down.

Still had fixings for a few dozen grilled cheese sandwiches originally intended to spring on unsuspecting folks relaxing in a wood-fired hot tub.

Wasn’t up for making them now, either.

My friend Tim came to the rescue.

I had no idea he was such a grilled cheese expert… (more…)

A friend works as an Interactive Strategist and just started at a new agency. She’s their first full-time hire in analytics and strategy, so she has a lot of catching up to do.

Today we caught up over lunch at Hotel Utah on 4th and Bryant, close to both our offices.

Much of her focus will be on clients Electronic Arts and Boost Mobile. Her agency has an established Account Planning function, so the qualitative work is already there. They’re transitioning the quantitative in-house over time while bolstering it.  Developing the insight sounds really interesting to me, but I wonder if it would be interesting doing the research.

Anyway, about the cheese…. (more…)