Food I Eat, Part 1

I love mac n cheese. You do too, I'm sure. We all do. Because it's delicious. So you can imagine my delight when I heard about an East Village restaurant that serves only mac n cheese. It's a brilliant idea, right? Especially because mac n cheese is often, and cruelly, designated as a side dish.

I stopped by. The place is called S'mac. A cute name, too cute really, but they only serve mac n cheese, so I forgave them. As promised, they had an extensive menu - lots of cheeses and meats and vegetables to choose from, bread crumbs or no, though they don't offer hot dogs, which was a disappointment. And their food was fine, nothing offensive about it or anything, but when I left I was unsatisfied. It wasn't until I went back that I figured out the problem. The reason S'mac is able to offer so many choices is also it's downfall: they have a bunch of prepared sauces that they just ladle over the noodles and mixings when you order. They make the whole thing in a skillet and throw it in the oven for five minutes, so it looks oven baked, but it's not. And I never knew this before, but oven baked is really the secret to good mac n cheese.

Luckily, I found this while wasting my life on the web. It's the top 25 mac n cheeses in New York. Though mac n cheese is a southern black food, and all these restaurants are located in the lily parts of Manhattan or the just-as-white-but-more-proud-of-themselves parts of Brooklyn. Plus, S'mac is #12 on their list, so these people at gridskipper might just be full of shit. But I'm gonna check a few of these places out myself. Those pictures are like porn.