sacramento dining

we only had a day in the state capitol so we had a limited time frame to try the city's offerings. we had coffee and muffins at seattle's best inside the sheraton grand hotel. we had to rush our story so we could meet LA's deadline. i love seattle's best dearly (not comparable to my affection to cbtl though) and i am sad that they do not have stores in LA, like the ones they have all over manila. anyhow.

internet charges at seattle's best was at $4.95 for half an hour. ouch. no way. on our way to the memorial auditorium, we saw an ad at the sacramento convention center right across the street that promises free 15 minutes of internet access for every purchase at starbucks or wolfgang puck express. after writing and editing the story, we moved across the street to starbucks. j bought madeleines and a cup of hot choco. and my fifteen minutes of wi-fi access.

after performing all our duties, we went out and picked up f, an old friend of mine. yeah, he's old. hehehe. old, as in mid-90s friend old. since j and i haven't had breakfast and lunch (coffee and madeleines and muffins do not count), f suggested tower cafe on broadway.



tower cafe is located within the compound of tower theater, where they show artsy and indie films, according to f. across the street was a tower liquor and on the other side was a dilapidated building that used to be tower records. yeah. all towers. a little history lesson: the first tower records in the u.s. was located in this same area.






anyhow, we had a great dinner. i had seafood bouillabaise, f and j had pasta. i always thought that bouillabaise is a cream-based soup so i was quite surprised to see that what i ordered was clear seafood soup, with the clams, prawns, scallops, fish fillet and others. yum.

we wanted to have dessert but previously while at the convention center, i saw a brochure that j picked up. it's a place called 'melting pot' and it's a fondue place. i was transfixed at the chocolate fondue offerings. so off we went to that place. we were quite intrigued with their latest chocolate offering, the hazelnut choco. since i was a big fan of white choco, we decided to get two orders of small, one with teh hazelnut and the other with white chocolate amaretto.



the place was a bit busy when we arrived. they asked if we had reservations. in sacramento? are you freaking kidding me? anyhow, the place was packed around 8ish. i enjoyed this sumptuous dessert so much we had to cancel our second order because we were stuffed. i wish they had a branch in LA. (wishes to the genie of restaurants).