{"id":1749,"date":"2016-04-12T19:41:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-12T23:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ca.gpen.com\/blogs\/news\/115323396-national-grilled-cheese-sandwich-day-at-greenspans-grilled-cheese\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T20:38:45","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T00:38:45","slug":"115323396-national-grilled-cheese-sandwich-day-at-greenspans-grilled-cheese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eu.gpen.com\/es\/blogs\/news\/115323396-national-grilled-cheese-sandwich-day-at-greenspans-grilled-cheese\/","title":{"rendered":"National Grilled Cheese Sandwich Day at Greenspan&#8217;s Grilled Cheese"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/eu.gpen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/S1A7997_2048x2048.jpg\" style=\"float: none;\"><\/p>\n<p>In celebration of National Grilled Cheese Sandwich Day, we cruised over\u00a0to\u00a0<em>Greenspan&#8217;s Grilled Cheese<\/em> on Melrose Ave in West Hollywood, California to indulge. Of course, with our\u00a0<a href=\"\/es\/collections\/g-pen-elite-ii\/\" title=\"G Pen Elite\">G Pen Elite<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/eu.gpen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/S1A7967_1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"inline-image\"><\/p>\n<p>Founder\u00a0Eric Greenspan, alumni of Le\u00a0Cordon Bleu in Paris and\u00a0Berkeley&#8217;s Haas School of Business, has an extensive background in the culinary arts ranging from\u00a0battling Bobby Flay on\u00a0Iron Chef America and winning,\u00a0to serving as\u00a0executive chef at <em>Patina Restaurant,\u00a0<\/em>awarding\u00a0him as &#8220;Eight Hot Chefs&#8221; in Angeleno Magazine.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/eu.gpen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/S1A7966_1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"inline-image\"><\/p>\n<p>In addition to owning and curating <em>Greenspan&#8217;s Grilled Cheese\u00a0<\/em>menu, Eric is also the chef\/owner of\u00a0<em>The Roof on Wilshire<\/em>\u00a0y <em>Mar\u00e9.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/eu.gpen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/S1A7985_1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"inline-image\"><\/p>\n<p>Greenspan&#8217;s signature sandwich &#8220;The Champ,&#8221;<em>\u00a0<\/em>declared &#8220;the\u00a0#3 comfort food in America&#8221; by Alton Brown and the Food Network, consists of raisin walnut bread, apricot caper puree, taleggio cheese and beef short ribs. This mouthwatering delight\u00a0has also been featured in LA Weekly, the New York Times and CBS Sunday Morning.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/eu.gpen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/S1A7986_1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"inline-image\"><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Johnny Apple Cheese&#8221; aka Johnny Pastrami was also scrumptious.\u00a0Pastrami, white cheddar\u00a0and\u00a0apple mustard chutney with\u00a0green apple in between\u00a0sourdough bread.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/eu.gpen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/S1A7996_1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"inline-image\"><\/p>\n<p>Essential.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/eu.gpen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/S1A7981_1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/eu.gpen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/S1A7989_1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/eu.gpen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/S1A7997_2e505bfb-173b-4992-b125-5b94b49b7678_1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/eu.gpen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/S1A7975_d3cf9a62-ee5b-4049-9366-34a4f2309610_1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In celebration of National Grilled Cheese Sandwich Day, we cruised over\u00a0to\u00a0Greenspan&#8217;s Grilled Cheese on Melrose Ave in West Hollywood, California to indulge. Of course, with our\u00a0G Pen Elite. Founder\u00a0Eric Greenspan, alumni of Le\u00a0Cordon Bleu in Paris and\u00a0Berkeley&#8217;s Haas School of Business, has an extensive background in the culinary arts ranging from\u00a0battling Bobby Flay on\u00a0Iron Chef [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eu.gpen.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eu.gpen.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eu.gpen.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eu.gpen.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eu.gpen.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eu.gpen.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eu.gpen.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eu.gpen.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eu.gpen.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}