Grilled Cheese at Flying Star

Flying Star serves the most reliably delicious grilled cheese in the ABQ.
(The fries are usually really good too. Same for the cakes and pies.)
(But their overstuffed fiesta muffins? Mmmmm.)

image via the daily zen delight of the hypothetical wren

In Grilled Cheese News...

Via DukeCityFix:
Just discovered a fascinating event scheduled for this year's New Mexico State Fair (aka NM Expo):

"The skill of competitive eating returns to the New Mexico State Fair when the International Federation of Competitive Eating, Inc., which supervises and regulates eating contests in their various forms throughout the world, brings its State Fair Circuit Grilled Cheese Eating Contest to the Ford Pavilion on Saturday, September 23 at 3:00 p.m. Three hundred sandwiches made of white bread and American Cheese await local and professional eaters…and this year slices of green chile will heat up the competition! Last year’s contest was won by Leland Collins of Durango, CO, who ate 15-½ sandwiches in 10 minutes!"

The scary part is that 16 grilled cheese sammiches in 10 minutes actually sounds do-able to StinkyLulu. (Is that wrong? Really?) But fret not, lovely reader -- Lu wouldn't think of entering. Truth be told, StinkyLulu's more of a grilled cheese gourmand than a straight-up glutton. In that spirit, StinkyLulu's actually thinking of adding a semi-regular feature about notable grilled cheese sandwiches that Lulu encounters along the way...
Whaddaya think?

If StinkyLulu opened a restaurant...

A lazy day today, winding down and settling in after the weekend of academented adventuring in Chi-town. Almost forgot about a scheduled phone appointment with the research department of StinkyLulu's most favorite magazine. 'Twas brief -- just one of those things where they gather a group of current subscribers to do some test-marketing of magazine features but one of the questions turned out to be a surprise:

If you had whatever money you needed,
what kind of restaurant/club would you open?

The question caused StinkyLulu a brief "duh" moment, before the answer arrived as a bolt of true inspiration:

StinkyLulu's
Grilled Cheese Store

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Of course, the classic grilled sandwich would be the main item on the menu, with all the relevant variants (velveeta & cheddar & gourmet; full fat & no fat; w/ & w/o bacon or avocado or apple or tomato; fancy bread & wonder; etc) available for adventure and comfort. But the real fun of the restaurant would be the "grilled cheeses" from many lands. Margherita pizzas. Quesadillas. Pupusas. Arepas. Bagels with Cream Cheese (toasted) -- bialys too. Paneer Samosas (with potato or spinach). Spanokopita. Of course, there'd be a special little menu of fake-cheese, for the dairy-intolerant. And a very limited fondue menu, for the freaks that like that sort of thing. The list can, should & certainly would go on and on and on... (Haven't even considered grilled cheese desserts!!!)

Yum. Happy thoughts.

But what, lovely reader, would your restaurant/club be???