A chocolate fondue with goodies like strawberry. Just imaging this in my mind already made my mouth watery. Last Friday was bit chilly, a perfect condition for fondue. I asked Totof if it was ok to dine at La Fondue. We got ourselves a spot at 8:45. A bit late, but, good food worth waiting. La Fondue is in Saratoga downtown. I had never been there. The downtown looked cozy. I was surprised how La Fondue looked like (outside and inside). La Fondue dazzled me. Everything looks glorious. The decor is 19 century type. The interior designer must have spent much times for table uniqueness since each table has its own theme. The paintings and lighting made everything a bit unreal though. The waitress stopped by and asked us if we had been there before. Our answer was negative. She kindly explained how La Fondue worked. Indeed, we needed some explanation. Because... the menu looked confusing. We wanted to get ourselves a feast. So, we ordered a combination. A combination has salad, a cheese fondue as appetizer, an entrée, and a chocolate fondue. We ordered - Spinach salad with honey mustard dressing and chef salad with balsamic vinaigrette dressing: I liked my spinach salad very much. In my opinion, it was better than the chef salad. - Cheese fondue: We took "stinking rose - swiss - wine - garlic". It was an excellent choice. This cheese fondue was the best that I have ever had. - Surf & Turf entrée: We took this one due to the lobster tail. We were considering surf & turf or fruit de mer. Fruit de mer has too many types of shrimps. We were unsure if that fits our appetite. So, We took surf & turf. Once we chose our entrée, the waitress asked us what cooking method we liked. There were various methods available. We followed the waitress' suggestion - grill method. We got 12 oz meat (6 oz filet mignon and 6 oz lobster tail) with some shrimps. The waitress gave us 6 different types of dipping sauce: terriyaki, bbq, garlic butter, lemon curry, sour cream, and wasabi. The filet mignon went super well with wasabi. So good. The lobster tail was firm. So, it was hard to cook it evenly. We ended up cutting tails into small pieces and threw them back to the grill. Lemon curry added nice flavor for lobster tail. - Chocolate fondue: Up to that point, we were already 90% full. I knew the chocolate fondue part would be the best in this combination. So, I tried so hard to make sure I was not over full. Each table can select 9 different premade chocolate fondue ingredient packages. We didn't took any premade. We made our own package: bittersweet and Godiva. It turned out super well. The chocolate was not sweet to death. With 90% full, I could still appreciate the chocolate, the melon, the marshmallow, the grape, the crispy cookie, the soft rice cookie, the chocolate-peanut bar, and the strawberry.
La Fondue is absolutely an awesome choice for winter times. Just the price is not as great as the fondue. Before we ordered the detail items, we were thinking to order some exotic items like crocodile. The waitress asked us to hold off and she was right. We were so full after our entrée. If we had the crocodile meat, we would not be able to have any room to enjoy chocolate fondue. Next time, I would like to try some other combinations and leave more rooms for chocolate fondue.
Location: 14510 Big Basin Way # 3, Saratoga, CA 95070
