For Mice and Men

Specialties

For Mice and Men is a traveling grilled cheese ‘muncheonette’. We’ve recreated the classic American sandwich (grilled cheese) using local cheeses, artisan bread, and homemade butter and added a touch of creativity and dash of pizzazz. Think cheese toastie if it were to attend a red carpet event.

Our build-​your-​own style menu features four cheeses (plus a rotating Guest Cheese!), veg toppings (tomato and avocado), meat toppings (free range chicken, buffalo chicken and smoked streaky bacon), and a seafood option (crabmeat). Your sandwich is built on big slices of amazing artisan bread (Mark’s Bread), and lightly fried to crispy perfection using our hand-​crafted butter.

We always source our ingredients from local, independent suppliers whenever possible.

History

Established in 2015.

For Mice and Men was dreamt up in 2014. For us it was intended to be an outlet for creativity and an enabler of the desire to live autonomously. After years of giving ourselves to time-​consuming jobs that encouraged us to substitute mundanity for sporadic creation, order-​taking for self-​direction, and relinquishment for ownership, we decided it the whole damn thing had run its course. We sought to lead a more fulfilling life while simultaneously making a positive contribution to people’s lives. A traveling grilled cheese ‘muncheonette’ was the seed for our personal, miniature revolution.

We opened as a Bristol-​based market pop-​up in May 2015. We were open to the idea of living and changing according to our experiences. And so we did. We offered cold brew coffee in the summer, we added a Gourmet Weekly Special, we fleshed out our menu with veg, meat and seafood toppings, we began catering private events and weddings, and most recently we have offered our homemade butter for sale.

Meet the Business Owner

Victoria C.

Business Owner

Being half Brit, half Yank, we aimed to converge the best of our homelands (and neglect the worst). What’s great about South West England? The cheeses, dairy, produce and livestock (and Mark’s Bread!). What’s great about The States? Grilled Cheese Sandwiches. Bringing together the two, we thought, seemed fun and promising.

We were eager to create something that did things differently – this wasn’t a contrived or even conscious effort to be different, it was just that we felt so much else had become so much the same. We repelled the persistent pressure to follow normative, textbook procedures for anything: management, marketing, pricing, customer service, etc. It was naturally different because it obeyed its own rules. A march to the beat of its own drum.