The Best Bet

Photo: Danny Kim. Food styling by Suzette Kaminski.

Every twenty years it seems fondue swings back into vogue. Leading what is due to be this generation’s wave of decadent dipping is Café Select, opening a dedicated fondue room (212 Lafayette St., nr. Kenmare St.; 212-925-9322) in the back of its fashiony Soho restaurant. The vibe is Swiss alpine lodge—a welcome update to fondue’s seventies-key-party or nineties-mall-chain habitats of yore. Chef Ingrid Roettele has improved on the form, too, with vats of tomato- and truffle-oil-laced Gruyère and Appenzeller. And for dessert, two words: liquid Toblerone.

The Best Bet