Cheese and Mushroom Toastie

Cheese and Mushroom Toastie

I think I may have mentioned a number of times that generally I don’t do sandwiches, and when looking for something for lunch, I would prefer not to have a sandwich. I do get the attraction of sandwiches and it’s a preference rather than a absolute hatred and boycott of anything between two slices of bread.

However despite that preference, I do quite like a mushroom toast. Not everywhere does them though. I was on my way to York and I had stopped at the Solihull Retail Park to charge the car. Though there was lots of retail outlets, there didn’t appear to be many places to eat. In the end I headed off to M&S which had a cafe. I did wonder what to have and in the end when I saw they did a cheese and mushroom toastie I was sold. You could have had it with chips, but who needs lots of carbohydrates, so went with a small bowl of accompanying slaw.

It was nice that they bought your food to the table, so I didn’t need to wait at a counter wondering if that next toastie was mine or somebody else’s. 

I am not really what to say about the toastie, except I did enjoy it. There was nice proportion of cheese and mushroom and it was nicely browned as well. The slaw added some needed freshness and the vinegar dressing cut through the richness of the cheese. 

For a quick lunch it was ideal, and I enjoyed it.

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grilled cheese toastie

Near to my office are various eating places, I often drink coffee at the Exchange and have heard good thing about many of the places on Old Market, but apart from buying bread from the Assembly Bakery I’ve not actually eaten at many of the establishments.

So it was with some hopeful anticipation that I went for lunch at 25A Old Market. From what I was told they usually offer a range of (posh) sausage rolls and cheese toasties. On the day we went only the toasties were on the menu.

The welcome was warm and friendly and after placing our orders we went downstairs into the basement and our food was brought down to us.

There was a choice of two toasties a five cheese one and a meat one. I went with the meat one.

It arrived hot and toasty with a really nice side salad. They use the sourdough from the Assembly Bakery and it was really tasty, good strong flavoured cheese and great bread. I think I would have been perfectly happy with the cheese variant, not sure how much extra the salami added to the toastie.

I am not usually a toasty or panini fan, but this was a really nice toasty.