A new Fresno restaurant specializes in cheese and bread. But it’s got a Southern favorite as well
Melty cheese. Bread that’s still warm from the oven.
These are two things that most people love. So why not put them together and form a restaurant around it?
OK, the plan from the owner of a new restaurant called the Cheesy Bread House was a little more involved than that, but you get the idea.
Cheesy Bread House has other flavorful fried food on the menu too — like Nashville hot wings and even corn on the cob done up with the Nashville seasonings.
It opened in mid-June on West Shaw Avenue, near Chipotle in the same shopping center as Costco. (Tip: If you go during lunch hour, take Blythe Avenue north to Winco and loop around so you don’t get caught in the out-of-control lines waiting for discounted Costco gas.)
Cheesy Bread House
Cheesy Bread House is owned by Arut Mkhitaryan, the same man who recently opened Baklava House at Bullard and West, which The Bee told you about this spring.
He’s connected to the Angry Chickz restaurants and the family that used to run Flippin’ Dave’s Burgers and Fries. Cheesy Bread House is in its old location.
He declined to talk about what happened with the burger place, but note that a competitor, Hammy’s Smash Burgers, opened up just across Blythe.
Mkhitaryan constantly has ideas for new businesses in his head. He said his goal is to make people happy.
“When are people happy? When they’ve got good food … reasonable prices, good service,” he said.
Cheese and bread
Cheesy bread with favorite topping basturma meat is the hot item at the new Cheesy Bread House located in the Costco shopping center on West Shaw Avenue. Photographed Friday, June 23, 2023.
The cheesy bread is clearly the highlight of the menu here.
It goes by several other names too: Cheesy boat. Egg boat. Georgian cheese bread. Armenian khachapuri.
There’s no easy way to describe what kind of cuisine this restaurant carries, especially since food doesn’t respect borders.
It’s international, coming from several cultures, who all seem to claim the cheesy…
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