“Man v. Food” Feels The Thrill Of Grilled Cheese

Could you eat a 5-pound grilled cheese sandwich? Should you? If there's anyone who can and will, it's Adam Richman, star of Travel Channel's cross-country chow challenge series Man v. Food. On Monday's episode (7 p.m., September 13, on the cable station), Richman attempts to conquer the Monster Grilled Cheese at Melt Bar and Grilled, a 4-year-old Cleveland, Ohio, restaurant that specializes in gourmet grilled cheese sandwiches.

Our friend in Cleveland knows all about Melt. He says that Melt's customers line up for two hours or more to order from a menu of $10-$13 cheese sandwiches. One of the most popular is the "Parmageddon," which adds pierogies and fresh Napa vodka kraut to the basic grilled cheese. There's the "Lake Erie Monster" featuring beer-battered walleye (a Great Lakes fish), American cheese and jalapeno tartar sauce. The plain old grilled cheese like your mama made, just two slices of bread and yellow cheese, is called "The Kindergarten" and costs $5.50 (they do bake their own bread). The restaurant sells 500 grilled cheeses on a typical day and that's on top of the burgers and other diner fare they offer. (They also have more than 150 different beers.)

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