“If there were a Mount Rushmore of comfort foods, you would have meatloaf and mashed potatoes, spaghetti and meatballs, peanut butter and jelly, and macaroni and cheese. Gooey, rich, and satisfying macaroni and cheese is the king of all comfort foods and the king of all macaroni and cheeses is served right here at Mr. Mac’s in Manchester New Hampshire. Now this isn’t just a restaurant that happens to have a good serving of mac and cheese. This is an entire restaurant devoted to nothing but making the world’s greatest mac and cheese and these guys have a passion for pasta that is very, very cheesy.”

“We have several different flavors, different cheeses, different meats, different vegetables, different sauces and seasonings. There’s nearly an endless amount of combinations you can get. So it’s basically mac and cheese paradise, the Mecca of macaroni and cheese as we like to say. For most people, it’s been on their dinner tables for years and years and years decades going all the way back. Thomas Jefferson was the first one to bring it over. So it’s one of those things where it’s been basically ingrained in culture of our country, you know, probably taking too long to get a restaurant with its sole focus, macaroni and cheese.”

“There are over a dozen different flavors that you can try or you can customize your own. Every single one of them have high quality ingredients and cheese that is grated every single day.”

“It’s gotten real cheese to it. It’s not powder, it’s a real legitimate high quality product that when it comes out of our oven really changes a lot of perceptions of what you think about when it comes to macaroni and cheese.”

“It comes in a nice cast iron skillet, bubbling edges, it’s nice and brown on top. It’s always fun to see people dive in and they pull it out and it’s got what we call legs to it with cheese pulls.”

“That cheese pull can get feet. We have seen some people really kind of dive into it and stretch it as far as they can go.”

“Here’s a little montage of the greatest cheese polls in Mr. Mac’s history.”

“If you want those old school feelings you start with the classic All American. This is down home style comfort food- cheddar and American cheese with the pasta served in a cast iron skillet, absolutely perfect. But if you’re a real cheese lover, you want to go for the Cheese Please. This is cheese on top of cheese on top of cheese on top of fromage on top of some more cheese you’re talking five distinct cheeses here shredded sharp cheddar, muenster, Swiss, a little bit of pecorino, and of course it comes with some American cheese as well. This is aggressively cheesy, dangerously cheesy. Cheese, please!

How could you have a mac and cheese restaurant in New England and not have Lobster Mac and Cheese? Ocean fresh lobster add that into their traditional mac and cheese, a little bit of lemon to cut through all that richness and every bite of this thing is so good, people from around the world literally come here just to eat lobster mac and cheese.

So the best of all worlds have come together in one amazing bowl: the Blazin’ Buffalo Chicken mac and cheese: spicy buffalo sauce, all white meat chicken, with a cheddar, and some pepper jack, and American cheese. This has always been a Phantom Gourmet favorite and it’s one of my favorites as well. But if you ask me the number one must get mac and cheese is inspired by Mexico: The Taco Mac. Imagine a taco and mac and cheese and put them together. And this is what you have Taco Mac. You can get it with ground beef or ground chicken has that great taco seasoning in there along with some salsa, a blend of American and cheddar cheeses, and the key is over the top, you’ve got some tortilla strips on there. So you got a little bit of the crunch a little bit of the sweetness from the corn gets nice and crispy on top. Every single bite literally tastes exactly like a taco but it’s even better because it’s a taco with massive amounts of cheese.

“And the crunch from that tortilla chips is so reminiscent of a taco shell it really does change the dynamic of what you think mac and cheese can be.”

“This is such a fun place to bring your friends, bring your family, this is also a good place to cook at home. They do take and bake style Mac and cheeses. Pick your flavor. Pick your toppings pick your cheese’s, they will wrap it all up for you. Keep it in the fridge, put it in the freezer, you can serve a whole family and trust me even annoying kids like mine will love it. Whether you come in here and get yourself a piping hot skillet, or you grab it to take and bake at home, I’m telling you right now, if you’re gonna open up a box of that bland powdered mac and cheese for your family, you are doing yourself an injustice. When you want the real deal. Something made fresh and made from scratch, you gotta come here to Mr. Mac’s. They’re the mac daddy.”

“If you’ve had macaroni and cheese, you’d probably want to happen from the best. If you’ve had a slice of pizza, you want to get it from the best possible place. It’s not just plain macaroni and cheese. It’s whatever you want it to be. You can customize it. You can make it your own. It’s one of those things that we can do so much with it that you’re bound to find something you’re going to love.”