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I read the Northern Liberties community message board a lot, and post on it with relative frequency. It's always nice to know what's going on in my neighborhood, even when the news posted is, well, less-than-nice.
Yesterday, I saw a posting that made my heart go pitter patter. The Swallow Bistro, a five minute walk from my humble abode, has completely changed its menu: it is now an all mac'n'cheese restaurant. Choose your own combo or go with one of theirs, but no matter how elaborate, the fact remains that you're eating pasta and melted cheese. I may have died and gone to heaven.
Not everyone in the community, though, was as excited as I at this news. Instantly, Swallow's motives and sound-mindedness were questioned: why launch an all mac'n'cheese menu when A Full Plate and its universally-praised multigrain pasta-and-cheese dish is right down the street? It seems that some people are really loyal to their macaroni.
But are you? Is there one place in the city whose mac should be elevated above all others? A place where you turn when you need comfort food? Or do you just make some mac yourself? Leave us a comment and let us know what you do when you're feeling a serious need to mack on mac, and what you feel about Swallow's radical decision.
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The mac and cheese (made with gruyere and lardons) at Coquette (5th & Bainbridge) is the best mac and cheese I have ever had, bar none.
Until Coquette changed their preparation of it, that is...it's still good, just no longer out of this world.
Lardons, huh? I may have to try that.
BTW, you two helped me find some great mac and cheese that night we went to Kitchen 233. Mmmm... gouda...
The best place I have found is the originator of the all mac and cheese restaurant called S'MAC. Sadly it is in New York, but the prices are cheaper than Swallow Bistro despite being in Greenwich Village and they have much bigger portions - take a look at this , this, and this. (Thank you obsessive people at flickr who take pictures of their food!) I almost always bring some back to bake at home. They do things right like use ridged noodles to hold in the cheese sauce. Let's just say if I lived in New York, I would probably eat there a lot!