"THIS REVIEW IS EXCLUSIVELY ABOUT THE SUBPAR $22 GRILLED CHEESE SANDWICH.The store is well appointed, with tons of cheese options, and a warm and talented staff. If you 're just there to buy some cheese, I 'm sure it 's great.THAT SAID if you are a cheese shop and you are advertising a signature grilled cheese ....and IF that grilled cheese starts at $13, and then once you add toppings, it 's $19 and with tip, it becomes a frickin $22 sandwich, it really better be at least a decent sandwich. And it 's not. Start with the bread. Instead of a country hearth bread grilled to crispy brown perfection, we have a version of regular store-bought white bread. (So it 's a small sandwich to begin with. But this bread is cut obnoxiously thick to give the impression that the sandwich has substance. So, most of what you 're eating when you get this sandwich is this bread. So if the bread is the main ingredient, IT had better be great. It 's not. The bread 's consistency is that of a disintegrating kitchen sponge that should have been thrown away months ago.Then there 's the cheese . The defining characteristic of a grilled cheese sandwich is ooey-gooey cheese. That 's the bare minimum. This sandwich is served warm from a panini press and is surprisingly light on cheese. It appeared that there was some sort of pub cheese spread...maybe a flavored cream cheese, and then a single unmelted slice of swiss. I got mine with avocado and tomato. (Nothing to complain about with those two ingredients. But the overall experience of the sandwich is chomping through mushy bread into luke warm unmelted cheese and ingredients. Mushy lukewarm mouthfeel. Basically the opposite of what you expect/want from a grilled cheese. Maybe if it was a $8 deli sandwich it 'd be forgivable. But seriously, you could get a better-grilled cheese at literally any deli in the city. They all have griddles and they 're not going to take it off of that griddle until it 's got a crispy brown exterior and a gooey cheesy interior. Period. So, the $22 (with toppings/tip price for this subpar exploration of the sammie just becomes a bit offensive. (Hence me waking up and feeling like I couldn 't go about my day without this bitchy Yelp review. In any event, like I said, nice looking store, staff were perfectly kind to me. But suffice it to say, Bedford Cheese went immediately on my do not fly list for sandwiches. #NotWorthIt"
