Fondue

Posted on 2008/05/14 21:25:18 (May 2008).

[Tuesday 13th May 2008]

After a quite hard day at work, where a lot of rather sad things happened, Chiara called me at work to ask me if I wanted to go to IKEA to "take a look around" (read: buy an heap load of useless stuff).

I didn't want to go to IKEA, especially because the knee is not fit to walk around a lot yet... So for once, after Chiara arrived at home after work in her usual 1 hour delay, I did not get angry at her for being so hideously late...

Instead we decided that it was too late to go (pheeewwww...) and instead we decided to have a dinner out.

It was quite sad to come to the realization that the area where we live in is totally devoid of decent restaurants, so in the end we decided to take the car and go to a "Swiss Fondue" place.

The restaurant was quite nice, very well kept. Unfortunately because Chiara cannot eat a lot of cheese we decided to go for a Burgignon, where basically you have a lot of sauces and you dip row meat in a pot of boiling oil.
The food was ok I guess, although I think that we should have gone for a real fondue, to have the full blast "fist in your liver" experience...

Of course we had to close the dinner with a mandatory chocolate fondue with fresh fruits, which was quite nice...

All in all a different Tuesday!

I've never had a *real* fondue; the nearest I've been is sitting on the table next to someone who was! A rather scary range of bubbling pots and stringy cheeses, and people puffing a lot because they'd just taken a mouthful of something too hot!! :D

Glad you avoided IKEA anyway! Whenever I've been the final bil has always been over £100 - very unnerving! :)

Posted by Nigel at 2008/05/14 22:25:18.

I have had the luck of trying Fondue on the French Alps and it was simply great. It is a bit hot but something I'd recommend to try once in a lifetime.

Posted by Lox at 2008/05/14 22:39:22.

I wonder if Chiara actually reads your stuff...

Posted by Sheri at 2008/05/15 18:15:59.

Sheri: I think she does :D But she knew that I really didn't want to go!

Posted by Lox at 2008/05/15 18:51:17.

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