BLOG 05/08/08

We Invented The Fondue Fun-Do

People always steal our ideas. First it was the “pff-pff-pff-pff-pff-pff-pff-dugga-dugga” rhythm from the Holden remix of The Sky Was Pink (and quite possibly every other sound and element of the arrangement from hereon to eternity). And now it is our Fondue Fun-Do concept…

Spotted in Flavorpill this morning (who were actually having quite a good day listings-wise, though the writing remains as pompously clueless as ever) was this announcement for a regular evening of cheese and tunes held in Clapham’s ostentatious Lost Society bar-restaurant. Fondue Thursdays promises to be a tribute to all things eighties, reviving the fondue, prawn cocktail, black forest gateaux and cocktail classics accompanied by an electro-disco soundtrack.

But if that all sounds a little too “exquisitely louche” for your tastes, fear not, for we are currently hatching plans for a Christmastime fondue revival in the heritage-filled rickety surroundings of Soho’s St Moritz. Though by that time there might well be a fondue night on every corner…