{"id":3209,"date":"2025-07-11T04:26:02","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T04:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sutyo.com\/sidewalk-citizen-bakery-home-of-the-worlds-greatest-grilled-cheese-sandwich\/"},"modified":"2025-07-11T04:26:02","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T04:26:02","slug":"sidewalk-citizen-bakery-home-of-the-worlds-greatest-grilled-cheese-sandwich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sutyo.com\/tr\/sidewalk-citizen-bakery-home-of-the-worlds-greatest-grilled-cheese-sandwich\/","title":{"rendered":"Sidewalk Citizen Bakery: Home of the World\u2019s Greatest Grilled Cheese Sandwich"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Two civic minded Israelis are the masterminds behind Sidewalk Citizen Bakery<\/a> in Calgary, home of possibly the best grilled cheese sandwich ever. But more about the sandwich and its winning combination of cheeses later because a great sandwich actually starts with great bread. In the case of Sidewalk Citizen Bakery\u2019s sandwiches, the bread is slow and long fermented organic sourdough. And pretty much all the bread idioms and sayings apply to Sidewalk Citizen Bakery\u2019s business and philosophy\u2014bread is the staff of life, man does not live by bread alone and more than any other saying, breaking bread.<\/p>\n

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Co-owner Aviv Fried started selling his homemade bread via bicycle. A self-taught baker, he trained with bakers around the world including Jeffrey Hamelman of King Arthur Flour in Vermont, in Paris with sourdough master Jean- Luc Poujauran and in San Francisco with Chad Robertson of Tartine Bakery. Selling loaves of sourdough bread to his friends began as a hobby and a way to donate to charity, but after a while he found he was more passionate about bread and creating a sense of community through a commitment to \u201cstreet life\u201d than he was about pursuing a career in engineering, which is what brought him to Calgary in the first place. Does baking bread lead to a more purpose-driven life? For Fried it did. <\/p>\n

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As his success in bread baking continued, the bicycle gave way to two brick and mortar locations. The bakery\u2019s name, Sidewalk Citizen, comes from\u00a0a\u00a0book by Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities<\/em><\/a>, and is all about a citizen\u2019s place within a city, and their participation in the \u201csidewalk ballet,\u201d or the continually moving scenes that take place between the people on the street.\u00a0To further a sense of community Fried along with Michal Lavi, his partner in business and in life, created a dinner salon program called Tzatva<\/a> (the Hebrew word that means sitting together) that brings a wide variety of speakers for \u201cconversations of art and substance\u201d including artists, doctors, authors, and thinkers. Fried has also taught baking to the community and is committed to locally sourcing many of the ingredients he uses, including red fife wheat that is used in baking and local honey from Mob Honey<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The World\u2019s Greatest Grilled Cheese Sandwich <\/h2>\n
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The Sidewalk Citizen Bakery has a menu of soups and sandwiches in addition to all kinds of pastries, both sweet and savory. The piece de resistance is the grilled cheese sandwich. It\u2019s made on the house sourdough, of course, but in addition to the bread, it\u2019s the genius combination of cheeses that really shine. It\u2019s made with aged Cheddar, fior di latte, and Swiss Gruy\u00e8re AOP (read more about Swiss cheeses you should know<\/a>) with a drizzle of local Mob honey.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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While we don\u2019t know the maker of the Cheddar, it comes from Ontario so we are guessing It might be from Balderson<\/a>, a producer who has won countless awards and was established as a cooperative of dairy farmers in 1881. Balderson makes several aged Cheddars including the one year aged Balderson Championship<\/a>. We\u2019re also guessing since the fior di latte comes from Canada that it\u2019s from Santa Lucia<\/a>, a family-owned producer from Ontario that has been making cheese since the 1960s and uses only domestic milk. The intensity of the Cheddar, gooey stretch of the fior di latte and nutty Gruy\u00e8re AOP is an inspired combination, complemented with a tangy sour dill pickle. Grilled on a flat top, the bread is crusty and chewy and oozes with all the cheese and yet it isn\u2019t greasy. It\u2019s a sandwich that speaks volumes about bread, cheese and community.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two civic minded Israelis are the masterminds behind Sidewalk Citizen Bakery in Calgary, home of possibly the best grilled cheese sandwich ever. But more about the sandwich and its winning combination of cheeses later because a great sandwich actually starts with great bread. In the case of Sidewalk Citizen Bakery\u2019s sandwiches, the bread is slow … Okumaya devam et “Sidewalk Citizen Bakery: Home of the World\u2019s Greatest Grilled Cheese Sandwich”<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1271,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[395],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-milk-and-diary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sutyo.com\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sutyo.com\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sutyo.com\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sutyo.com\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1271"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sutyo.com\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sutyo.com\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sutyo.com\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sutyo.com\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sutyo.com\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}