[giCe]

I've been craving mac and cheese for the past week. Where is a good place for some gourmet mac and cheese in Vancouver?

[Jayboogz]

Chop in richmond by the shark club. Some muddapuckin preeeeeeeeemo mac n cheese
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[rageguy]

The Mac Shack in Vancouver The Mac Shack | The Ultimate Mac + Cheese (http://www.themacshack.ca/)

[Culverin]

Went there 2 weeks ago.
If that's the best mac and cheese in Vancouver, then son, I am disappoint.

[Meowjin]

my own.

seriously.

Learn to make a bechemal sauce and add aged cheddar, blue cheese (for bite) and smoked gouda.

Add paprica and nutmeg for spice.

[bcrdukes]

Well, unfortunately your mac & cheese isn't available to us all so....yeah.

[SFUguy]

the fuck is gourmet mac and cheese? mac and cheese is supposed to be good but ghetto.

its like asking for gourmet instant noodles.

[donjalapeno]

^ 4 cheese blend
Bread crumbs on top
Baked in the oven
Crisp top layer when it comes out

Adding lobster or crab meat also compliments it


And thats what makes it gourmet....people suddenly think KD when they hear about Mac and cheese

[muteki]

^^ Also, there's a big difference between instant noodles and real ramen..

[Culture_Vulture]

^ 4 cheese blend
Bread crumbs on top
Baked in the oven
Crisp top layer when it comes out

Adding lobster or crab meat also compliments it


And thats what makes it gourmet....people suddenly think KD when they hear about Mac and cheese
Exactly. Just because it's easy to prepare and come in microwaveable bowls, doesn't mean it can't be made gourmet. Why do you think bars/pub grub joints serve mac and cheese? They obviously don't make them using KD.

[ilvtofu]

The Mac Shack in Vancouver The Mac Shack | The Ultimate Mac + Cheese (http://www.themacshack.ca/)

That place is fucking garbage, had it last month, this ones called "The Ultimate"
http://s3.amazonaws.com/foodspotting-ec2/reviews/989322/thumb_600.jpg?1319756618
Looks delicious but tasted bland as fuck and for $16 before tax what a load of crap...
Shitty service too.

I'm a fan of the Mac and Cheese at Burgoo though, expensive but oh so cheesy

[K-Dub]

The Mac Shack in Vancouver The Mac Shack | The Ultimate Mac + Cheese (http://www.themacshack.ca/)
Coincidence, just posted about The Mac Shack (http://www.604foodtography.com/2011/12/01/the-mac-shack-media-tasting/) today.

My own words..

The Mac Shack hasn’t really received great reviews since the opening two months ago. The talk has been mainly negative, and to be honest it hasn’t really given me that urge to come for repeat visits. That’s the most important factor for restaurants, the repeat customers. ...

Overall, I feel that the Mac & Cheese’s can be .. well, more cheesy. It feels cheap and skimpy if the cheese doesn’t cover the entire surface, let alone mixed up amongst the pasta themselves

[Integgyy]

kraft dinner

[K-Dub]

I love mac and cheese! omnomnomnom!
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Thanks dukes.

[Vansterdam]

kraft dinner+ketchup+hot dogs

WIN

[Santofu]

Is it just weird if people add ketchup to their mac and cheese? :suspicious:

[Bonka]

^^^
I've seen people mix in some savage ingredients: mustard, sriracha, chips, wieners, mcnuggets, steak, refried beans, peas, etc, etc. You're good man.

RE: Mac Shack
That's what I figured. A couple of friends went there and thought it was pretty good and found it cheap (?)..I always believe the opposite of what people I know say about restaurants and food now.

[kwy]

Damn, Mac Shack looked promising.

Boston Pizza actually has pretty good pasta imo..but by no means am I a pasta snob or anything. As a teenaged male, I'll eat anything.

[PJ]

Stay. The. Hell. Away. from Mac Shack. One of the biggest restaurant letdowns I've ever had.
You're better off making KD.

[trancehead]

friend was just telling me about the absolute shit service and mac and shack. the atittude from the waiters was ridiculous

[NLY]

I got curious and followed this recipe

Macaroni and Cheese Recipe - Tom Jefferson's Mac and Cheese - YouTube

I added more cheese and bacon bits and it turned out delicious.

[jeedee]

lol is the mac shack really that bad?

I got a free coupon from them for being one of their first 1000 followers on twitter

Free is always better than $16 before taxes :fuckthatshit:

[Meowjin]

Ok.

First for pasta you want to use something that either

a) is macaroni

b) a macaroni with ridges.

2) the sauce.

1 liter 2% milk
2/3 cup of butter
2/3 flour
6 eggs
Shredded aged cheddar
Shredded Smoked Gouda (don't cheap out get the real stuff not the simulated smoke)
Shredded blue cheese (for bite)
Parmasen if you want.
shredded bacon + bacon grease.
paprika + nutmeg

Melt the butter in a sauce pan over medium heat. Whisk in the flour and heat it up until it turns into what looks like shredded garlic. After that remove from heat, and slowly whisk in milk fucking slowly, when the milk starts to dissapear and form a paste add more. Eventually itll turn into a liquid again. Then put over medium heat and whisk until it thickens into a rue. To test if its ready put a spoon in and see how it drips. Should be thickish.

Whisk in 6 well beaten eggs. Keep whisking over the element with the heat off. add a visible amount of nutmeg or paprika, then slowly whisk in the cheese over the element + bacon grease and chopped up bacon.

Mix in with macaroni.

You will thank me later.

[Renxo]

Chop in Richmond does a white cheese mac for + $5 extra to a meal, and it's fucking good!!

[6793026]

If you are eve rat gas town, go to Peckinpah Restaurant they hav a killer mac and cheese.

[JSilver]

AVOID Mac Shack.

Bland.

[murd0c]

The best mac and cheese hands down is at the Onyx steak house. Truffle and lobster mac and cheese and wow its beyond amazing!!!!
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[xmisstrinh]

I've had the Lobster Mac n Cheese from Rougue Kitchen and Wet Bar before, and it was actually quite tasty.

And yea, Mac Shack is kinda bland, the sandwich was good though!!

[bcrdukes]

Sandwiches being better than their staple dish? :fuckthatshit:

[Shoxk]

Burgoo on Main and 15th

Mac and More, their french onion soup is good too

[Ilagon]

Best mac and cheese I've tried was at 100 Days Restaurant in Yaletown. Sadly, they were only there for 100 days. It was a lobster and Dungeness crab mac and cheese with a small cup of lobster/crab bisque that you pour on top. So good...
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[Obsideon]

I wish I saw this thread before I made the mistake of going to Mac Shack ... lol what a mistake ... bland as hell and way overpriced!... I had the "recommended" Lobster Mac ... which came out to over $20 after taxes... took me a good minute or 2 to dig out any semblance of lobster ... I was rewarded with a SLIVER of meat ... and the rest of the mac was bland and dry ... 4 waitresses working at the time, they literally never moved more than 2 feet from where they stood during my entire meal there. Only 2 other tables in the store. Epic fail.

The Mac and Cheese at Burgoo is way better.

[!MiKrofT]

Au Petite Chavignol on Hastings has a pretty good mac and cheese.

Home-Au Petit Chavignol (http://www.aupetitchavignol.com/)

Four Cheese Macaroni 9

Gruyere, white cheddar, orange cheddar stilton

Add double smoked bacon +3 -this is a must lol.

[ilvtofu]

I wish I saw this thread before I made the mistake of going to Mac Shack ... lol what a mistake ... bland as hell and way overpriced!... I had the "recommended" Lobster Mac ... which came out to over $20 after taxes... took me a good minute or 2 to dig out any semblance of lobster ... I was rewarded with a SLIVER of meat ... and the rest of the mac was bland and dry ... 4 waitresses working at the time, they literally never moved more than 2 feet from where they stood during my entire meal there. Only 2 other tables in the store. Epic fail.

The Mac and Cheese at Burgoo is way better.

I don't know if they changed it but yeah there is no service, not even water :/

Love the burgoo mac and cheese but not a fan of their onion soup, the soup is too beefy? I don't know it's just off IMO

I still have a coupon from being a twitter follower of mac shack so I'll probably try the original mac and cheese or smth

[bcrdukes]

Love the burgoo mac and cheese but not a fan of their onion soup, the soup is too beefy? I don't know it's just off IMO

I think they over do their beef stock. Glad it wasn't just me who felt this way.