Tonight Lora took Serenity and I out to dinner to celebrate life in general :-) Oh my! I'm pretty sure we committed several sins by eating here tonight... Not knowing what we wanted to eat we wandered down 1st Street in Livermore and finally wound up at a place called "Simply Fondue." Sound harmless enough, right? Well, we decided to have the Fondue Feast. We started out with a bottle of local Livermore Valley Bent Creek Petite Syrah. The first course was salad, I had the Greek salad with feta and kalamata olives, Lora had baby spinach with sliced strawberries and Serenity had her usual Caesar's. In the center of the table are two burners where they put fondue pots. Second course was the fondue, melted Swiss cheese in one pot, mixed with white wine and cheddar mixed with beer in the other pot. For dipping we had various types of bread and fruits and vegetables. Yummy! Then the third course of meat and fish, sirloin wrapped in bacon, salmon, scallops, shrimp, chicken and six different dipping sauces. The put a pot of hot oil on the burner for that and you cook your own stuff right at the table, very fun! There are other ways of cooking available, in a vegetable broth or grilling or in Sangria. This was also fantastic. Finally there was desert, your choice of dozens of different melted chocolates with fruits and cookies and brownies and marshmallows for dipping. They start with a flambe so you can roast the marshmallows. This place is highly recommended for feasting. Dinner took well over two hours and that's not including recovery time which will be several days I'm sure. Here are Lora and Serenity roasting marshmallow over flaming chocolate... mmmmm.... life is good :-) 
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