This Event:
	Thurs	10/5	Fondue Fred's, Berkeley

Coming Events:
	
	Thurs	10/5	Fondue Fred's, Berkeley
	Wed	10/11	Green Elephant Gourmet, Burmese, Palo Alto
	Wed	10/18	Sultana Turkish, Menlo Park

Web page for KW schedules, restaurant reviews, etc: www.kabuki-west.org 

Time:	7:45pm

Place:
	Fondue Fred
	2556 Telegraph Ave
	Berkeley CA
	(510) 549-0850

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 $20/person) where they
    will serve as much fondue as a group of six or more 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 $20-25 for a
    meal, plus more for drinks. 

	[Kabuki-West was probably last at Fondue Fred in 2002.
	Folks will probably want to dress warmly.]

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, with several other restaurants 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]