Fondue

Today a few of my girlfriends and I went to a restaurant downtown for fondue.  It was yummy!  The place we went is called Taureau and they have the most fabulous fondue menu.  We had a cheddar and monterey fondue and a fondue called Devil's Whiff, which was a cheddar, peperoncino, and red wine fondue.  We had garlic bread and a side of potatoes for dipping.  There was steak and chicken in boiling oil for the meat course and that was followed by a milk chocolate fondue with a fruit tray on the side.  It was super tasty and the atmosphere was lovely, though I didn't realize it was next door to a funeral home until I uploaded this picture!

I've been to a few fondue restaurants in the city and so far I have to say that this one is my favorite.  They had a wide variety of fondues to choose from and a tasty selection of chocolate fondues for dessert.  The cheese was so good and there was unlimited bread to go with it!  It wasn't the healthiest dinner in the world to be certain but there is not much in this world better than melted cheese.  Honestly, there is very little in the culinary world (outside of desserts, of course) that would not be improved by covering it in melted cheese.

For those of you not from NYC, the black thing with an orange cone in front of it is where food, clothes, and whatever else a store sells is brought into the building.  Most stores have all of their storage in the basement (because every building in the city has a basement) and the stairs to get down there are generally pretty narrow and wouldn't support hauling large boxes of stock.  The gates in the sidewalk make it much easier to bring things down into the storage section of the stores and cause paranoia in NYC residents.  We are all a little afraid of stepping on a closed gate and having it collapse underneath you leaving you injured and embarrassed.  The only thing worse would be stepping in the gap between the train and the platform...talk about dangerous and embarrassing!