Top sandwich: Homer Lobster’s grilled cheese – 20 minutes
- Faced with the health crisis, chefs and restaurateurs must adapt.
- Chef Moïse Sfez offers a new smoked sandwich with melting cheese on the menu of his Parisian restaurants Homer Lobster.
- For 20 minutes, he details his recipe for his “Grilled Cheese Special”.
With fine weather, it would be nice to have a little picnic on a bench, in a park or a garden. With, in his bag, a top-notch sandwich, like this “grilled cheese special”, a smoked cheese sandwich like the one in the restaurant.
Homer lobster.
The “Grilled cheese” ? This is a traditional American sandwich, crispy and melting with its base of buttered bread and cheese. A sort of croque-monsieur from the new world, which Moïse Sfez cooks in his subtly spicy and smoky sauce, inspired by the one that made the success of his lobster rolls – the 25-year-old chef did not become by chance
world champion of the specialty, in 2018 in Portland.
A cheese with a great taste of butter
The secret of this street-food enthusiast’s “grilled cheese”? An English cheese sliced with a grater, theOgleshield with a good buttery taste (you can also use a more classic cheddar), Homer Lobster’s signature brioche (but a sandwich bread with soft slices can do the trick), mayonnaise seasoned with lime zest and of
chipotle, a slightly spicy but smoky pepper (found in supermarkets), chopped pickles well vinegared for the crunch and a duo of chopped herbs: chives, scallions …
“We are not going to lie to each other, warns Moïse Sfez: a ‘grilled cheese’ is fatty! Because of the butter, the cheese, the mayonnaise… The purpose of the lime zest is to camouflage this fat with a tangy note and refresh the palate. That’s what makes you want to come back and bite into another bite … “
A bite of bread
To compose this “grilled cheese special” inspired by his lobster rolls, Moïse Sfez has associated Homer Lobster with the duo of committed cheese-ripening cheese makers Taka & Vermo, Laure Takahashi and Mathieu Vermorel. This is how “the most desirable grilled cheese of spring” was born, available exclusively throughout the month of April and in ultra-limited quantities (50 sandwiches a day, not one more!) In the two restaurants. Homer Lobster from the Capital. His price ? Six euros, barely more than a bite of bread! But nothing prevents you from now to try to do it yourself.