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Carmen
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Do Fondue!

  • April 27, 2009
  • Rated 4 of 5 by Carmen from Fairfax, Virginia
Do Fondue!

Yet another one of our evening strolls in search for a new cafe to try for dinner, we came upon Lounge Cafe Saint Paul. The menu posted outside spoke of lots of choice inside, so we decided to give it a try.

The inside doesn’t look like much - it’s a bar. But the staff was exceptionally friendly, and we decided to stretch our "normal" food choices with their guidance (we were on vacation, after all).

The bar is next door to a fondue restaurant, and I think they may be owned by the same people, because fondue is on the menu at Saint Paul’s as well. And that’s what we chose. We split a cheese fondue, a Swiss cheese called Fribourg, and a meat fondue with olive oil (two meat choices, steak and chicken, and some veggies.)

We’d had cheese and chocolate fondue before, but never with the main meat meal, so we weren’t sure how to cook it at first. The staff jumped in and showed us, and soon we were seasoned veterans. And it was so tasty! The cheese fondue was yummy, too, and we quickly managed to polish our plates.

Now, there were a couple of things I didn’t like. There was smoking in the back - I don’t know if bars don’t fall under the no-smoking rule, or like other illegal things in Amsterdam, people chose to ignore it. But we moved tables and sat up front near the door and were fine. However, at the first table, we saw a tiny mouse in the corner. Oddly enough, I forgot about that when the food came over from next door.

So, I recommend some fondue in the front of Cafe Saint Pauls. Though I will say it was our most expensive dinner tab of the trip at 45 Euro.

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