have you ever seen two bloggers at lunch?

so my new real-life friend, lara,

of Newlyweds

and I both had an audition today.

and surprise surprise!

if we hadn't scheduled it for the same day before we ever knew that we'd be friends.

and as luck would have it, our auditions were one auditioner apart.

and as even more luck would have it,

lara,

loves groupon

and bought a groupon to tom + chee

which

i just blogged about

and she was gracious enough to share.

WE DID LUNCH, PEOPLE.

and man oh man, if we didn't do it well.

first can i say this:

two bloggers, at lunch, is very easy to spot, and very funny to see.

we take pictures of our food.

we talk about colors.

we talk about stories and as we're living the moment, living the lunch date,

we're both probably writing our respective recollections of the event for our blogs.

lara's blog is more grand-scheme than mine;

she writes full reports of her day, her life

and i blip in and out about mine

but here we were!

together!

dying in heaven!

i went pretty conventional: three cheese grilled cheese + chunky tomato basil soup

totally onolicious.

basically, whatever is good about a grilled cheese is made even better at tom + chee

they have no magic ingredients, no ridiculous bread

they're just effing normal and good

and that is tasty as hell to me.

PLUS

the bread practically melted away into my chunky tomato soup

and whether or not this should or should not alarm you

it pleased me to no end. it was so yummy!

lara got REAL crazy and ordered the grilled cheese donut,

which, as a new pansy,

i decided not to in case it upset my stomach and ruined the rest of what was being a perfect day.

she contemplated putting brie, pesto, and hummus on it,

and lord knows, i've not yet heard whether or not it has made her vomit.

but she ate it, god willing,

and i applaud her.


***ALSO***
lara blogs it over here.
hers is better.
go read it.

cheese.

perhaps it's the fact that i'm savoring a veggie-full diet

perhaps it's the fact that my office is located underneath a cafe 

that specializes in fried food.

nonetheless, grilled cheese is on my mind.

i'm not gonna lie--i'm a cheese lover.

jarlsberg is where the good stuff is, 

and it's delightfully cheaper than all those other fancy pants

cheeses you can buy from a cheese deli.

and now that i live above a gourmet cheese and wine shop, 

life is looking pretty delightful, 

amiright?

and so here we are today

me, dreaming of cheese;

you, probably dreaming of cheese, too;

the both of us benefitting from my research.

turns out, there's a lauded grilled-cheese cookbook,

as if cooking grilled-cheese really requires a recipe.

perhaps it's more of a grilled-cheese inspiration book

in which you'll find LOADS AND LOADS AND LOADS 

of grilled cheese ideas.

you better believe i'm checking this one out from the library soon.

in fact, i've been flying right through books on vegetarianism and veggie cook books.

this one would certainly make a pleasant addition, don't ya think?

cincy, itself, has a few grilled cheese specialities, i do believe.

i've lost my mind over my favorite cafe, lavomatic, in which i've only been once in my whole life and probably should go again right now,

where i ordered, with a friend, both the grilled cheese and the mac n cheese, for lunch.

cheesy, delightful heaven.

speaking of that, you guys know my love of all things fancylunch,

Lavomatic Cafe happened to be one of the best lunches evar.

if you're new to cindy

or your name is lara rhyner

and you like to do cincy-flavored things,

this one better top your list.

also. cincy's big hooplah,

tom and chee

WHERE I HAVE NEVER BEEN

and thus, shame on me for not having eaten here before.

srsly, tho, you google "best grilled cheese in cincinnati"

and you get three pages of people going nutso over this place 

and their grilled cheese donut.

i obvs want to try.

duh.

and the, finally,

my haven of cheese 

is arthur's fried cheese appetizer in hyde park

which i had over a year ago

and still often have dreams and taste-attacks over.

oh whoop te doo, i'm living less that 200 yards from Arthur's heavenly fried cheese?

go ahead, TELL ME that wasn't an accident.

so.

you guys feeling cheesy today? :)

bum dum ch!

ALSO

i tried to get lots of oozy goozy grilled cheese pics for you from interest

but the damn thing had a hernia and died

right as i needed it.

go google it yourself.

you'll love it.

yuuuuuummmm