From: ramey@jello.csc.ti.com (Joe Ramey)
Newsgroups: dfw.eats
Subject: Re: Simply Fondou ?
Date: 31 Aug 92 23:56:16 GMT
Organization: Texas Instruments
Originator: ramey@jello

In article <1992Aug31.174024.11042@exu.ericsson.se>
exustp@exu.ericsson.se (Stephen Pittner,xt-dt,x0672) writes:

   Has anyone ever been to a place called Simply Fondou? I think
   there is one in Addison on Beltline and maybe another on
   Greenville. I'm looking for a good place to go for a 5th
   Anniversary dinner, something good and with some atmosphere. I have
   heard that Simply Fondou has these qualities. Any comments or
   recommendations are appreciated.

I've been to the Simply Fondue on Lower Greenville a couple of times
and have enjoyed it.  Both times there were only two people in our
party, and both times we ordered the combination dinner as suggested
by the waiter.  First you get a simple tossed salad, nothing exciting.
Then for an appetizer you get a cheese fondue (choice of cheddar or
swiss) with bread and crudites for dipping.  The main course has a
light oil in the fondue pan for deep frying all the entree items.
With the combination dinner you get chicken, shrimp, beef, scallops,
and mushroom caps with green goddess stuffing.  There are two batters:
a heavy sesame batter and a lighter tempura-style batter.  Then
finally for dessert you have a choice between chocolate or white
chocolate amaretto dip with marshmallows, angel food cake, bananas,
maybe some other fruit.  I've heard that the restaurant in Addison has
an entree with a broth instead of an oil for cooking, but I've never
been there myself.

An earlier poster suggested that it was rather expensive.  It seems to
be true at first, at least for the amount and type of food, but on the
other hand you will spend a couple of hours here (and that's if you
hurry!) so they can't turn the tables as often as some other
restaurants might.  One reminder: be sure to keep both skewers of food
cooking.  That is, after you cook something and remove it get another
one started before eating the one you just cooked; otherwise your meal
will take forever!

It is a fun place to be with someone with whom you want to spend a
long time with, so I guess it would be good for an anniversary dinner.
I think it's also a good place to take someone you haven't seen in a
long time and you have a lot of catching up to do, since much of the
time you are just sitting there waiting for your food to cook (can't
just bury your head and stuff your face if you run out of conversation
topics).

For anniversary dinners other places I might recommend would be Routh
Street Cafe (haven't been there in a long time, I heard they had been
declining but very recently were improving again), Nero's Italian
(nice dark decor, large servings of hearty (and garlicky) Italian
food, one of my favorite restaurants), Chaplin's (touted as one of the
best `New American' restaurants in D's best 100 restaurant issue a
couple of years ago), Landmark Cafe (in the Omni Melrose Hotel on Oak
Lawn near Cedar Springs, very good food, nice quite atmosphere, good
service, and the bar next to the restaurant has a good singer
performing nightly).
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