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The Price of Mac ‘n Cheese

Posted on June 25th, 2009 3:40pm by Nancy Nichols
Filed under Cheese, Restaurant News, Wine & Spirits

You know what I like about you guys? You have strong opinions. Your comments yesterday on the macaroni and cheese rant gave me an idea. Let’s see how much you love your macaroni and cheese when you see the price. Okay? You can all thank our intern, Sweet Sara for doing the dirty work.

The Porch: Smoked ham Mac & Cheese Casserole, $9

Chamberlain’s: Wild Mushroom Mac & Cheese (made with orzo), $8.95

Hibiscus: Baked in a casserole dish, five dark cheddars, panko crust. $8

Screen Door: Smoked cheddar, white cheddar, cheddar, cream cheese, bread crumbs, baked in oven. $7

Rathbun’s Blue Plate: Carr Valley Mammoth Cheddar Mac & Cheese, $9

Kenny’s Woodfire Grill: Adult Mac & Cheese, smoked Gouda, cure 81 ham, white truffle oil. $3.99

Hattie’s: Four cheddar macaroni & cheese, with Smokey razor white cheddar. $9.50

Jasper’s: Aged Gouda, cheddar, ham and pearl onions. $9

Abacus: Applewood bacon smoked mac & cheese: $10

South Dallas Café: whole pan, $35 When asked what kind of cheese, the nice lady just said, “Cheese.”

18 Comments to “The Price of Mac ‘n Cheese”

DesignBoy @ June 25th, 2009 at 3:52 pm

The one at Hattie’s is an entree and worth every cheesy bite.
Neil @ June 25th, 2009 at 4:19 pm

Where’s Luby’s on the list?
TLS @ June 25th, 2009 at 4:36 pm

Kraft – $1.00
David @ June 25th, 2009 at 4:43 pm

Chris Ward’s Mac & Cheese at The Mercury is by far the best in town!
Darren @ June 25th, 2009 at 4:48 pm

My favorite is the Mac & Cheese at The Place at Perry’s (it will always be Perry’s to me!) with 3 different cheeses. They also have on their special menu a lobster mac & cheese that is oh so yummy as well!
SDM @ June 25th, 2009 at 4:50 pm

What are the prices of mashed or “whipped” potatoes at those same places? You picked some of the most expensive places in town. There are cheaper places like Hurricane Grill that have good mac & cheese (3 cheeses to be exact). The one at Nick and Sam’s, while pricey, is large and can be split between several people.
Matt R @ June 25th, 2009 at 4:55 pm

Market Street grocery has a great Blue Cheese and Cheddar Mac & Cheese. Think its $2.99 or $3.99 a pound. Awesome.
Maggie @ June 25th, 2009 at 5:27 pm

I’d add Perry’s (classic) and Victor Tango’s (with crab). I’m not helpful enough to have the prices handy, however.
luniz @ June 25th, 2009 at 5:52 pm

I bet if you made one with 7 cheeses, it would be 7 times as good.
John @ June 25th, 2009 at 6:08 pm

Kenny’s Wood Fired Grill – smoked gouda, ham, and truffle oil.. $3.99 (or free with an entree)
JK @ June 25th, 2009 at 6:22 pm

The Porch casserole version is worth every one of those nine dollars and then some!
CheeseHead @ June 25th, 2009 at 6:55 pm

Fearing’s mac n’ cheese is around $8.00 I think, and is the best that I have ever tasted!
PF @ June 25th, 2009 at 10:24 pm

Glad to know the Mac & Cheese at Screen Door is baked “in the oven” – I don’t like it when it’s baked in the fireplace.
Tartare @ June 26th, 2009 at 12:03 am

Sweet Georgia Brown’s for the non-milquetoast crowd–The cost=priceless particularly to see if any of you have the guts to go
texaskatey @ June 26th, 2009 at 7:42 am

I like Breadwinner’s Green Chile Mac and Cheese. $5 for a dish of creamy spicy goodness, and you have plenty to share with a friend.
Wes Mantooth @ June 26th, 2009 at 10:13 am

I suspect that so long as we rubes continue paying $9 for a plate of mac and cheese, the restaurants will keep serving it. That plate has got to be a huge profit center even if you’re using bacon brined in unicorn tears.
Christopher @ June 26th, 2009 at 10:28 am

I don’t mind paying $5-$8 for a shared plate of mac & cheese if it’s interesting…I just grow bored of labels like “adult” or “grown up”. Unless it is made with Jack Daniel’s, moonshine, a narcotic of some sort or comes with a complimentary stripper, just give me a good meal. I’d rather a bombastic “best Mac in town” than a chef calling something “adult” just because it contains three drops of truffle oil and moderately expensive cured ham bits. If they’re trying to distinguish it from the “kids” mac, thanks, but I’ll just assume that everything I’m ordering is “adult”, unless I see connect-the-dots, crosswords and color-in dinosaurs. In that case, I’ll ask.

Real Mac-heads like me know that the ultimate cheese experience comes from a box of Kraft prepared without milk and with as little butter as possible. You have to stir like crazy but it’s undiluted and unadulterated pure cheesiness.
S.A.M. @ June 26th, 2009 at 8:11 pm

I do like the mac & cheese at Jaspar’s.
I’ve never tried the South Dallas Cafe M&C, but am guessing it is probably the best of the bunch.

And, one more thing…if Nancy gets to vote M&C off of the trendy list, I want to vote “applewood smoked” everything off too. I’m tired of hearing that, and what does it mean, really?
It sounds absolutely disgusting in mac & cheese.