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Eat: La Cave des Fondus

La Cave des Fondus

Underground beneath Jacques, this stone-walled, almost-too-date-friendly fondue basement sports a six-seat bar plating cheese and charcuterie, chalkboard menus, murals of drinking revelers, and floor-length communal farmhouse tables for slurping three dipping dishes: Savoyarde (Swiss, Gruyere, & Comte cheese), Bourguignonne (sliced hangar steak in beef bouillon w/ two dipping sauces), and Valrhona chocolate w/ cream puffs or fresh fruit. Drinks-wise, Cave serves three draughts (Leffe Blonde, Bass, Stella) and six wines which, as at Montmartre's Le Refuge des Fondus, are served in actual baby bottles -- so even if your date doesn't succumb to the power of melted stuff, you still get nipple.

Check out the menu

20 Prince St, between Mott and Elizabeth; 212.966.5073 |

Food: Bar Breton

Bar Breton

Cheffed by the Fleur de Sel guy, this steel-barred bistro sleeve opens into a haute farmhouse dining room, serving breakfast now (buckwheat galette w/ whipped cream & honey, sunny side up eggs w/ black forest ham & creme spinach), with lunch and dinner coming soon, e.g., bone marrow-crusted NY strip w/ shallot confit, and potato-crusted codfish. Breton's pouring from a full bar that slings 100 reds/whites, several apple ciders, plus 15 bottles of suds and seven on tap, including the French amber lager Fischer Tradition -- that is, the fischerman's tradition of drinking beer and not catching fish.

Get some breakfast goodness from this menu

254 Fifth Ave, between 28th and 29th; 212.213.4999 |