22 December, 2007

this is just like nature intended

tonight mal, maddy, chris, jv, jessie, jay and i went out to this fondue place in montmartre. they serve wine in--get this--baby bottles. seriously. so you're sucking alcohol out of something that is designed to be like a woman's nipple. hahahah. it's a really small place (on rue des trois freres, if you know paris) and it looks kind of dumpy from the outside...but don't all the best places? the sangria place we've gone to a couple times in the latin quarter looks like shit from the outside, but man do they have good sangria (le 10 bar!)

oh, i'm off topic. back to the fondue place. so it's small, and there are only two long tables. if you come in and only part of your party is there, they won't seat you. the guy got kind of mad at us when we tried to come in with 5 out of 7 of us. oops. once we finally got seated, mal, maddy and i had to climb over the tables (seriously) to get into our seats on the bench on the wall.

this is the kind of place with no menu. you get two choices: meat or cheese fondue, and white or red wine (white, for sure. red would have put me to sleep). they bring out a plate of tiny foods and a bowl of bread chunks, all perfect sized for dipping. then they light the fondue lamp on fire and set down a bowl of cheese on top the flame thingy (it's complicated to explain and not really important to the story...just picture a fonude bowl and whatever it looks like in your head is fine).

by the end of the dinner, you're stuffed with cheese and more drunk than you expect...who the heck knows how much wine is in a baby bottle, anyway?

1 comment:

Monique Geisler said...

dude I totally went to that restaurant Spring Break 06 with my friends in Paris!! hahah it was so much fun :) and funny thing was I had JUST finished reading about it in some expat's book about life in France.

small world :)