Simply Fondue

I went here for the first time for dinner with my daughter on ¹⁄₃₁. We ordered the feast for 2. The food was ok, but I wouldn’t go back. Way too expensive for what you get. The sauces they give you could be better… cheese fondue is just ok.

Least friendly restaurant in Livermore!
This restaurant makes my family and me so sad. It has been one of our favorites for years. We go there for lots of special occasions. It was basically $ 50/​person for the all you can eat feast. This includes the salad course, cheese fondue, meat selections, and dessert. Over time the restaurant has gotten very into rules. The prices have actually increased (which is pretty crazy). And if you wanted extra of anything, everyone in your party has to pay an additional charge. They have also taken some of our favorite items off the menu, including one cooking method, one of the cheese selections, and scallops with the main course. The restaurant has gotten so into their rules, that they won’t even allow you to take leftovers home without paying extra for the dessert. This is crazy. And they actually charged me extra one time for ordering vegetables and ravioli instead of meat. I’m not sure what kind of crowd is going there to pay $ 50 per person and then take advantage of the all you can eat privileges. But it has really taken away from the experience and introduced an element of a much lower scale restaurant. We have lived in Livermore for about 15 years now and love the people, the restaurants, and everything about it. Now when we go to Simply Fondue we feel like we left our home town.

Menu was a bit confusing at first. Katie our waitress was patient and attentive. She made sure our meal was great. We had salad, cheese fondue and a lobster entrée. We will go back another time for the chocolate fondue. The ambiance was great. Awesome date spot! Very engaging atmosphere.

Really nice location but I do feel like it’s more of a date night vibe. The setting is very romantic, dim lighting, and very modern. It was my first time going last night with my girlfriends to have some drinks and cheese it up. It was fun dipping veggies in cheese and dipping pineapples into white chocolate. Our server was really nice he kept coming around to check on continuously. I do recommend this place for a date night.

Between the 12 Martinis we had tonight we loved the spa one and the bad girl one. Those were great. But the actually all were yummy. We had a GREAT server named Josh. We had cheese two types. And two chocolates. Everything was good. Veggies could be a lil fresher! I can’t wait to go back!

If your going to come to this place please please ask for Alex B to serve you. She is the sweetest and funniest waitress I have ever experienced. She’s full of energy and enthusiasm to serve you. She made our dinner even more special and fun. A great experience and again don’t go without asking for Alex B as your waitress. I would come back for the amazing service and for Alex

One of my very favorite places to eat out. It’s more like an adventure than a meal. The food is fresh and the staff is always polite and helpful!

Worst restaurant ever !!! Jack in the box or McDonalds it’s a better experience than this dump! We spent $ 800 and we had the worst experience ever !!! My suggestion is save your money and go someplace else. Bar tender with a clown make up on had a power trip and made us wait 20 minutes for our drink

I went to Simply Fondue last night to enjoy dessert with the company of friends. We made a reservation for a party of six for 8:00pm (last seating of the night probably).
Two of the people in our party were unable to make it. When we arrived we told the hostess that we would only be a party of four.
Before seating us the manager (Amber) told us that we would have to pay a $ 75.00 cancellation fee! What? Really? We didn’t cancel anything. We discussed this with Amber at length and she stood by her policy with a very cold non apologetic attitude. Finally she said «well what i can do is sell you a $ 75.00 gift card». So now she is forcing us to buy a $ 75.00 gift card because two of our party were unable to make the reservation. We tried to get her to understand that we did not cancel anything. Four of us were here spending money but she coldly refused to listen and said we would have to buy the $ 75.00 gift card.
We tried to not let this ruin our time together and enjoyed our dessert fondue. When the bill came it looked like this;
Gift Card $ 75.00
Two pots fondue $ 48.00
Decaf coffee $ 2.95
Tax $ 4.71
Total $ 130.66
WOW — for the four of us who ate it only cost $ 13.91 each person.
But for the two who could not make it the cost was $ 37.50 each or a total of $ 75.00 for not being able to make it. This doesn’t even make sense!
So now I am stuck with a $ 75.00 gift card to a place I can’t even stand the thought of entering. So what will I do? Probably go try to tie up their biggest table for a full night spending the least amount of money possible just to teach them a lesson.
Be warned! Oh yeah and did I mention we even had to ask for Napkins! Yes really we had to ask for napkins. Surprised they didn’t charge extra for that too.
Unilocalers be warned.

Had a very disappointing dinner here this past Saturday night. Not anything to do with the food really, but more the treatment by management. Although our server, Ricky, was amazing and very apologetic.
It was my cousin’s birthday and our reservation was for 7 people at 8:30pm. We arrived at about 8:15 and was told that when our whole party arrived we would be seated. Our entire party arrived promptly at 8:30 yet we were told that the table in the back we were waiting for was still occupied and that they had paid their bill but were still lingering. Fine. Understandable. Little did we realize we would be waiting for this table to leave for a full hour!
At this point we were upset, but the manager seated us in a small front booth, mind you — there are 7 of us and my sister had to sit on a chair since we all could not fit comfortably in a booth with no elbow space.
We were annoyed and there was no apologies from the manager really, nor did he seem to care. We finally noticed the large table leave and we asked if we could sit at our originally reserved table — after all this — we didn’t start eating til almost 10pm!!! Ridiculous since we had reservations at 8:30pm which we arrived on time to. On top of that — one person in our party had to leave by 9:30 — so all she had was a bite of bread dipped in cheese fondue before she had to leave!
We never saw the manager again for the night with no apologies — horrible!
Never coming back again.

I want to eat here everyday!
Caprese Salad — amazing!
Pepper jack cheese fondue — amazing!
Shrimp, Bacon wrapped tenderloin, calamari, teriyaki chicken, and cedar planked salmon on the grill — delicious!
Sea salt caramel and milk chocolate fondue — amazing!
Sweet and a little dirty gin martini — perfect!
We had a lovely meal here. Made reservations on open table and got right in. Service was excellent and attentive — for the cheese and dessert course you get unlimited amount of breads/​veggies/​sweets to dip.
Only thing that could make this place better would be valet parking :)

I’m giving this place 5 stars: because of the service we received from Ricky was phenomenal!
My lady took me here for an early Birthday dinner (I should advice you to make a reservation ahead of time)
Ricky took care of us, friendly and very up beat!!! The whole experience is worth the 5 stars!
Definitely a new spot I will continue to visit…

Great place to spend time with loved ones while you nom-​nom .Dont hav much of fondue experience to comment on the cheeses etc but the service is great. very friendly folks who guide u thru the entire menu.
I would suggest pairing cheese fondue (entrée)with some salads. we felt the grilled meats (entrée)were making us too full. Or even better, try the chocolate fondue and a drink! guess that helps going easy on ur wallet instead of the 2 course or 3 course meal
Will definitely visit again if I get more coupons or deals

I came here with a friend, as we wanted to have a nice brunch and go shopping at the outlet mall after. So this fit the bill.
The three course brunch was nice. Anything to write home about? No… but it was nice meal for the price. It also had a nice ambiance, and the service was good.
If you want a different take on brunch, especially on the healthier side (lots a good veggies and lean meets), before you go outlet shopping or wine tasting in the area, this is a good place to try.

A nice place inside but my experience is that they were too slow, forgot about us for a while and had to keep reminding them and it’s overpriced. Try it if you like fondue but expect to pay!

Big disappointment. We’re a party of 4, and We just finished our gymnastic meet in Livermore. my daughter wanted to try out fondue So I suggested this establishment because a couple of my colleagues said it was good. We came here around 12 noon. I told the server we’d like to try their fondue menu and she suggested ‘cheese and chocolate’. I also wanted meat so she said we should get a separate meat fondue from another menu.
The good: it’s my daughter’s first time so it was a great experience for her to be leading this. Ambiance is great. Utensils are cool.
The ugly: we ordered 3 ‘cheese and chocolate’ fondue but we are limited to 2 flavor of cheese maximum and 2 flavors of chocolate because there’s only two burners on the table. They just ‘portion’ it to 3 orders. It sucks because we wanted to try as many as we can but because we only have two burners we can only try two (or one). The portion size is also questionable. The couple across is order 1 cheese-​and-​chocolate and one lunch dish. His cheese-​and-​chocolate portion is is actually just as big.
In conclusion, I believe I got cheated in two ways: (1) ordered 3 but I only got two portions (2) ordered 3 but I can only have two flavors maximum.
Needless to say, we won’t be coming back.

We literally just had thr best lunch dining experience ever.
We went in for my son’s 19^th birthday. Party of 6, with a Groupon.
I had a reservation for 5 at 1:30, my older kids are always late and my daughter got the day off so she ended up coming too. I was accommodated well, no attitudes or problems.
When my family finally showed up, we were seated and our AMAZING, CHARMING AND HALARIOUS server Dane came to great us. He is the best server I have EVER had. My daughter is a server at another restaurant and she was impressed with him. He made great suggestions, prepared our cheese perfectly, that was important because our 9 year old does not like spicy food.
All of the food was so good, great flavors and presentation.
We had pulled pork sliders with soup, beef kabobs with garganzola salad, fuego beef sandwich with fries, the loaded waffle fries, caesar salad, pepper jack cheese fondue, Resse’s fondue for dessert and 1 chocolate bacon Martini. I can honestly say we loved all of it.
We left so full and happy.
Thank you Dane for a wonderful meal and time. You kept us laughing. My children having great birthdays is super important to me and you definitely added to our day.

Great service. Our server was Christina and she was extremely attentive. It was our first time going to a fondue place so this first time experience was awesome. I loved the cheese fondue ! My boyfriend loves cooking the meats himself. And please get «all but the kitchen sink“fondue !! The best dessert!
FYI I bought a groupon please be aware that can only use Monday-​Thursday only. I went on a Saturday #fail

There aren’t many fondue places in the Bay Area. This is one of the better ones. Add $ 6 and get the all-​you-​can-​eat. It makes it more worth it. Not all items are good to fondue. The coconut shrimp, blacken mahi mahi, almond crusted salmon, sesame ahi tuna, etc, I think those are better off with the oil fondue aka deep fried or the grilled version. The salads there are delicious. The cheese fondue we chose had a very strong alcohol taste to it. Don’t choose the swiss. The chocolate dessert at the end was the best. It came with marshmallows, fruit, cake, cookies, brownies and donuts. I chose the dark chocolate since I didn’t want it too sweet, but I saw many other fun and colorful options. Kitchen sink, s’mores, cookie dough, you name it.
The staff was very helpful and friendly. It would be a fun place to go with a group of friends. You get more variety. Not the best, but good enough.

I think this place is over due for an updated review! (rhyme not intended).
I went here not once, but TWICE for my birthday yesterday! Once around noon with my parents, and again at night with my bf. Both times were great, especially because they apparently have happy hour all day on Sunday & Monday. Great deal, or what?
First time in the day, I tried a Birthday Cake martini (seemed appropriate given yesterday was my big 2 – 1!), and the second time I went (in the evening) I had two bellinis! Starting with martini — They have an ENORMOUS selection; I was looking through the menu for what felt like a long time. There are dozens to choose from. The Birthday Cake one was way too sweet for my liking, but the concept was cute. The bellini, conversely, was amazing! Probably the best drink I had that entire day, and the best part was that it was only $ 6.
Also, the grilled cheese was pretty amazing. Grilled cheese sandwich fans need to try out these little guys immediately! (appetizer size).