From nobody@nowhere Wed Jan 24 23:15:09 2001 Forwarded: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 16:57:14 -0700 Forwarded: kabuki-west Forwarded: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 17:35:36 -0700 Forwarded: kabuki-west From: Richard Threadgill Subject: Dinner Wednesday, 6/17 Fondue Fred's, Berkeley To: kabuki-west Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1998 17:42:22 -0700 Message-ID: <3750.897957742@yggdrasil.midgard.net> Sender: richardt Status: RO This Event: Wed 6/17: Fondue Fred's, Berkeley Coming Events: Wed 6/24: Tied House, Mountain View Wed 7/1: Kamei, Mountain View Thu 7/9: Jose's, Palo Alto Wed 7/15: Le Cheval, Oakland Wed 7/22: Mandarin Gourmet, Palo Alto Wed 7/29: Afghan House, Sunnyvale Thu 8/6: Suraj, Redwood City Wed 8/12: Cha Am, San Francisco Wed 8/19: Il Postale, Sunnyvale Wed 8/26: Hunan Home's, Los Altos Thu 9/3: Paradise, Mountain View Wed 9/9: Fondue Fred's, Berkeley Wed 9/16: Sono Sushi, Mountain View Wed 9/23: * open * Wed 9/30: Kuleto's, Burlingame Thu 10/8: Blue Nile, Berkeley Wed 10/14: El Paso, Mountain View Wed 10/21: Hunan Gourmet, Sunnyvale Wed 10/28: Passage to India, Mountain View Thu 11/5: Ploy Too, San Francisco Wed 11/11: Cenzo's, Palo Alto Wed 11/18: Han Gen, Mountain View Wed 11/25: Kathmandu West, Cupertino Thu 12/3: La Mediterranee, San Francisco Wed 12/9: Amarin Thai, Mountain View Wed 12/16: Swagat, Mountain View Wed 12/23: Hobee's, Cupertino Wed 12/30: Brandy Ho's, San Francisco Chris Hull maintains a Kabuki web page at http://remarque.org/kabuki. Time: Wednesday, June 17th, 7:30 pm Place: Fondue Fred 2556 Telegraph Ave Berkeley Description: While it's still (hopefully) warm outside, we've decided to go to one of my favorite places for Kabuki, Fondue Fred's. Fondue Fred has a fixed price dinner (somewhere around $12/person) where they will serve one as much fondue as one can eat. They serve a variety of fondues, vegetable and meat, plus the various traditional cheese fondues. The chocolate fondue for desert is wonderful (if you are a person who likes chocolate). Seating is in a indoor courtyard on picnic tables, and is kind of cozy and family style. The prices for KW average around something like $12-$14 for a meal, plus more for drinks. Kabuki-West was last at Fondue Fred on July 16th, 1997. Directions: Short: Fondue Fred's is a little bit more than one block south of Dwight Way on Telegraph Ave. in Berkeley. On the west side of the street, downstairs of the New Dehli Junction in a mini-mall. BART: Get off at the Berkeley station. Go out the main exit (the one with escalators to the ground floor). This will put you right next to (almost under) the metal dome-thing which is the cover to the BART underground in Berkeley. Cross Shattuck Ave. Walk in the same direction as you just crossed the street to Oxford Ave. Take a right. Follow Oxford to Bancroft; and take a left. Walk up Bancroft to Telegraph. Fondue Fred's will be on your right (in a mini-mall, below the New Delhi Junction) in aboout six blocks, a little more than a block after you pass Dwight Way. Long: ** From south of Berkeley** Get to the 51st and Telegraph Ave exit on CA Hwy 24. Remember that I980 is also Hwy 24, at least for the section we are concerned with. When you get off the exit, take a right (onto 51st St.), then get into the left lane and take a left onto Telegraph Ave. Take Telegraph Ave. north into Berkeley. New Delhi Junction will be on your left several blocks after you pass Ashby Ave, in a mini-mall (below New Dehli Junction). **From I80** The best I80 exit to take is the University Ave. exit. As soon as you get off the exit, take a right (at the first light). This is Sixth St. Follow Sixth St. to Dwight Way, which is the light just after a strange bend to the left in Sixth St. Follow Dwight Way for quite a distance, passing San Pablo Ave., Sacramento Ave., MLK Way, and Shattuck Ave. Take a right on Telegraph Ave, which is about five blocks from Shattuck Ave. Fondue Fred's will be on your right in a mini-mall in about a block and a half (below New Dehli Junction). **From Berkeley** This is Telegraph Ave., about 5 blocks south of Sather Gate. You should know how to find it. Parking Note: Parking is *hard* to find in this part of Berkeley. There is often parking on the side streets, but if you don't want to hassle with that and don't mind walking a couple of blocks, there is the University-owned lot just east of Telegraph between Channing and Haste ($2.50 flat fee), and also a public lot between Channing and Durant just west of Telegraph Ave. ($0.75/hr). [review by rob] -RichardT