This new Biloxi coffee spot has the best grilled cheese. I want to try the whole menu.

What can be more satisfying than a grilled cheese sandwich? It’s a very simple idea, cheese and bread, with a few dabs of butter to help it brown. Surely the Italians and French came up with the idea, and the first grilled cheese sandwiches were served open faced.

The U.S. been enjoying them since the 1920s, especially after Kraft came out with their pre-sliced American cheese. So when I recently enjoyed a good grilled cheese — and I mean a really very good grilled cheese — I just had to tell you about it.

Sip Beverages is a new coffee shop in Biloxi, as it’s only been around for a few months. It’s just across the street from Port City Cafe on Pass Road.

It is a simple place in design and service, but a café doesn’t have to be fancy to be good. Fancy has its place, but simplicity does too.

It has a drive-thru if you are in a hurry, a patio with four tables and umbrellas for lazy spring or summer days, and a marble bar inside with black stools. The interior is scrupulously clean and well lit, so the overall impression is very pleasant. Service is sharp, especially if you have the pleasure of being served by nine-year-old Reid, daughter of the owner. She is knowledgeable, friendly and as self-assured a young girl as you will ever meet.

Sip really is all about coffee, tea and other beverages, but they do have a selection of pastries and cookies for breakfast and a small lunch menu (served all day). Lunch is mostly sandwiches, and when I stopped by the other day I couldn’t resist the grilled cheese and the turkey, bacon, cheddar panini. The cheddar was of good quality and there was plenty of it (nothing is worse than a miserly grilled cheese, with more bread than cheese).

There is also the option of pesto and sun-dried tomatoes as an add on, an option I am going to try next time.

I am also going to try the roast beef and cheddar sandwich and the pimento and cheese with bacon. There is also a BBQ and an Italian sandwich, both of which looked good. Sides are limited to chips and potato salad.

Sip Beverages Biloxi is a very cool little place, the menu is petite, but the food is expertly prepared and simply delicious.

The comedian, Jacky Gleason, who was a prodigious eater, once looked at a restaurant menu and famously said, “I see nothing to object to,” and then ordered everything on the menu. That’s how I feel about Sip.

If you go Sip Beverages in Biloxi

Address: 2572 Pass Road, Suite A

Phone: 228-207-5629

Hours: Open 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday-Saturday, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Sunday

This story was originally published April 22, 2022 at 5:50 AM.