The phrase "a pile of bread" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a quantity of bread that is stacked or heaped together, often in a casual or informal context.
Example: "At the bakery, I saw a pile of bread waiting to be packaged for the morning customers."
Alternatives: "a stack of bread" or "a heap of bread".
In moderately priced restaurants, gravlax often means tasteless cured salmon, but Mr. Yacyshyn's rendition ($7) is a salty-sweet surprise, served with a pile of cucumbers, dark bread and mustard-and-dill sauce.
Lake trout -- rolled in cracker meal or cornmeal, fried hard in roiling oil and served with a pile of cottony white bread and a sluice of vinegary hot sauce -- is the dish that working-class Baltimore craves, tucked into a brown paper bag and eaten on the go.
Here is what the platter includes: the burger, a mixture of three cuts of beef (short rib, brisket and chuck) that Dennis Dwyer, Ms. Dwyer's father and the chef, cooks on a flat-top grill to give it a nice crust; a Balthazar Bakery pain de mie bun; hand-cut fries (cooked twice to make them extra crisp); and a dainty pile of bread-and-butter pickles.
The pâté de campagne turned out to be a pork pâté, a javelin of bread, a pile of teeny pickles, and a little pitcher's mound of mustard.
Pal is particularly proud of his channa batura: spicy chickpeas, intensely gingery, served with a pile of freshly fried puffy bread.
It's served rustic-style, with grilled bread, a pile of cornichons and tangy whole grain mustard so you can go to town with it.
That's partly because the fish is served with a pile of deep-fried, island-style spheres of bread.
If you refrigerate it, it will solidify, so melt it (perhaps in the microwave, but be careful that it doesn't burn) before bringing it to the table with a loaf of excellent crackly-crusted bread and a pile of coarse salt for sprinkling.
That meat will be buried in a pile of coleslaw and fries crammed between slices of bread.
