Tom + Chee
 Canton, Ohio        Date of Visit  01/15/16        Facebook Page 

The cheesiness has spread north from Cincinnati and after seeing them make a deal on Shark Tank a couple of years ago we are headed to the shiny new local franchise in Green. In all honesty, they have lost something in the translation. It’s much cleaner and spiffier, I much preferred the Pirates of the Caribbean feel of the original. The service is the same, order at the counter, sit, get sammitches. The food is also pretty familiar. While drawn to the more peculiar combinations we had tried in Cinci, we instead ordered the weekly special soup and sandwich one of the regulars we had not tried and two sweet versions. I would stick with the weirder options on the menu as well.
 

The Soup Was Well Done With Nice Kick
 

The soup was really nicely done, a chipotle chicken with a strong base of aromatic veggies, spicy chili, tender chicken and maybe a little too much cream for richness. Still really nice.

The griller of the week was the Spicy Piglette - sourdough, pepper jack, bacon, ham, grilled onion, hot peppers, and sriracha. Steph couldn’t do it. I like hot stuff and I had to scrape peppers off. Woof, might as well have skipped the pig part, couldn’t taste any of it. The crunchy garlic chicken from the regular menu starts with wheat berry bread filled with roasted chicken, grilled onion, tomato, sweet hot mustard, garlic seasoning, parmesan garlic potato chips and pepper jack cheese. It’s fine but with the long list of those flavorful ingredients, it has no real pop. Good, but nuthin’ you couldn’t get really close to at home with even fewer ingredients. Order something peculiar like the Armagoetta, not only more interesting and worth the trip, I remember it tasting much better. We also tried the mac and cheese which had a nice sprinkling of seasoning but didn't have enough going on to keep it interesting.
 

For sweet we ended up with The King and the Mint Summer’s Night. Again, fine but without the peculiar funk of bleu cheese it’s sweet on sweet on sweet.

The King is the grilled glazed donut (holes still stopped with melted mozz) with slices of fresh nanner, and peanut butter mascarpone.

The Mint Summer's Night is stuffed with chocolate mint candy, chocolate mascarpone and fresh strawberries. Nothing bad, we ordered differently of course, but I still left feeling let down.

Both are uber desserty, all sweet all day and much less interesting than the blueberry/bleu cheese combo from Cinci.

If we do get back, I’m ordering the weirdest stuff we can find…or going back to the originals.