Melt Shop
“Though, the one that catapults its way ahead of them all in my book, is the buttermilk fried chicken grilled cheese sandwich.”
“My wife loved the fact that they have Gluten Free bread and she could enjoy in the grilled cheese goodness with the rest of us.”
“I'm a big fan of their Buttermilk and Buffalo grilled cheese sandwiches.”
Melt Shop
Delivery: Yes
Take-out: Yes
Accepts Credit Cards: Yes
Bike Parking: Yes
Good for Kids: Yes
Outdoor Seating: Yes
Caters: Yes
Price range.
$$ Price range $11-30
8 reviews
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This place offers a variety of "grilled cheese" sandwiches on sourdough or white bread. They do have a classic grilled cheese, but I would recommend trying one of the ones with meat and a variety of fillings that render them very un-grilled cheese like. I tried the Buffalo Chicken and Fried Chicken ones which were similar.
The Buffalo Chicken one was slightly spicy with blue cheese whereas the Fried Chicken one had red cabbage and melt sauce. Both were fairly large on crispy grilled bread and I thought both were greasily delicious too. The only thing is that the sandwiches are slightly overpriced at close to $10 each. With a side and drink will make it close to $20. Food was good but this is not a place I would regularly go to.
I've been meaning to write a review after coming to this particular Melt Shop location a few weeks back. I've been to other locations and they've been fantastic but this one definitely falls below par.
Came here on MLK day at around 3:30pm and as expected, there weren't a ton of people in there (maybe 2-3) and there were 5 of us. We opted to sit at the counter right by the door since that was the only place to accommodate the size of our group. We then went up to the register one by one to order our food and let the cashier know that we were staying.
We waited about 5 minutes and they started calling our names – great, we thought. Most of our orders were in to-go bags when we got them, which isn't a big deal but how about you listen to when we say we are staying (especially since you can see that our jackets and stuff were on the seats already).
I ordered the Shroom sandwich and a tomato soup. When it came time for them to give me my order, they didn't have my tomato soup and was pretty confused although I literally just ordered 5 minutes ago and then I open my sandwich and there were no mushrooms in my Shroom sandwich. I asked her if it was the Shroom and she said yes, so I said, there's no mushrooms in here. She was a bit confused and took my sandwich back and all they did was grill the mushrooms and stuck it in my sandwich, which is fine but it really didn't taste that great. Nor did the tomato soup as it was super salty. My friends ordered the regular tots and cheese tots – the regular were fine but the cheese tots were really salty too!
All-in-all, I wouldn't come back to this location but the other ones are great!
Even the world's second worst grilled cheese is still a grilled cheese. You just can't go wrong with a grilled cheese shop! Melt Shop is great. Lots of fun grill cheese sandwich combos for you to try. Price is alright (for NYC). Sandwich itself was good, just didn't blow me away. Also it took a strangely long time to grill my sandwich and I was the only one there (no pickup orders either).
It would be hard to go wrong with a warm grilled cheese sandwich, and this place definitely does it right. Considering how simple it is to make at home I kind of hate myself for purchasing a grilled cheese sandwich with average cheese (rather than fancy cheese like from a cheese shop), but it was damn good.
Grilled cheese is one of my favorite foods and Melt Shop is one of my favorite places to get it. I've never seen so much cheese oozing out of a sandwich until I ordered a grilled cheese at Melt Shop. I just went with the classic but stay tuned for when I try all the other flavors, specifically TRUFFLE. But yeah the original is perfect. I grabbed it for lunch to go. The place was pretty crowded and there weren't many places to sit so I recommend just bringing it back to your desk/apartment to eat.
One negative thing – I ordered the tomato soup to go with my grilled cheese… eh pass on that. The tomato soup ONLY tasted good when I was dipping the grilled cheese in it. Otherwise it was too watery and didn't do anything for me. So much sodium in this meal, too. I think I drank 25 gallons of water for the rest of the day.
First time having chicken in a grilled cheese and I'm glad it left such a good impression on me.
Chicken was nice and crispy, bread was seared and buttered, the cabbage and sauces where great and obviously, the cheese, perfectly melt.
Now for the price, I think it's not so "expensive" as others have pointed out. Eating one of these things with tots and a drink is a pretty heavy lunch and well, let's face it, any decent heavy lunch will have you dish out around 15 bucks and up. So no points off for price either.
Seating, you basically got an entire pocket park for that with more options to choose from than any regular eatery.
And for such a small place, service was great too, especially with the buzzer. You doing have to loiter around in the small space waiting for a name or number.
All in all a great place for a good bite.
It's comfort food. Any type of grilled cheese you'd ever want with some of the best tater tots. Plus they have sriracha and other types of dipping sauces but even alone that parmesan on the tater tots is heavenly. Yum. I really like the burger grilled cheese sandwich. Would like to try other sandwiches with a good beer next time.
I used to work in the area and my company would always order from here. I absolutely love this place. Be forewarned: if you are on a diet and trying to be healthy don't eat here. It's cheesy it's greasy and it's delicious.
My favorite is the fried chicken sandwich, slaw cheese chicken , all to die for.
Tots are awesome, a tip: if you get the ones with the cheese sauce get it on the side and dip them in the cheese is so rich and creamy and if they put it on top they tots lose their crunch and it's soggy and too cheesy.