A grilled-cheese restaurant. Why not.
Melt Down in North Wales is backed by the Peace A Pizza crew.
The Philly burbs have a restaurant specializing in peanut butter sandwiches (Wayne's PB and U), so why not a spot focused on the grilled cheese sandwich?
Friday, Oct. 7 saw the soft opening of Melt Down Grilled Cheese, a colorful quick-serve just off Bethlehem Pike near the Costco in North Wales (plug "111 Garden Golf Blvd." into the ol' GPS).
The strip-mall space formerly was a Peace A Pizza location. It so happens that Pete Howey and Aaron Nocks, who own PAP (as well as the Main Line's Bake 425), are partners with tech type Tom Stuart on this comfort-food concept, which they hope to franchise.
Menu is simple: various grilled-cheese sandwiches, a couple of soups, a salad, honest shakes, and a decadent grilled ice cream sandwich.
So far, Stuart says, the Classic is the favorite, followed by the Baja Melt.
Stuart, who owns a distribution software development company in Malvern, says he always loved to create food that makes people happy but, before befriending Howey and Nocks, couldn't afford to quit his day job to do it.