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| - Where do I start with the Cafe Monarch experience? I guess at the beginning. Last winter a good friend took me to lunch at Cafe Monarch and it was love at first bite. Christopher, the owner/chef/server/bon vivant and everything came over and described all the choices, but I asked if I could have the bacon/fig/pepper club sandwich as a salad. He said yes and it was LOVE!!!! So, now the food makes you misty and so does Christopher. Most salads can start off well, but about halfway through you are thinking that while good, it's the same thing again. Every bite of Christopher's salads is a new experience, from start to finish. One bite might be savory and sweet, the next crunchy and spicy. You cannot believe that a salad can have that many fabulous permutations, but it does and it happens every time. And if there is hummus, don't even get me started!!!
After that first experience, Christopher and Cafe Monarch became my MUST EAT place. The setting is intimate and artsy and European and funky and just plain FUN!!! The food combinations are seemingly endless and it never disappoints. I spent my birthday there with my husband who is a picky or some might say "fussy" eater. He doesn't like sauces or too many combinations and on and on. I was a bit worried that the birthday evening could devolve into something unpleasant if he didn't love it as much as did I, but there was no need to worry because he LOVED, LOVED, LOVED it. It was one of the best birthdays ever.
This led us to beg Christopher (yes, we were willing to beg) to return a bit early from his summer closing to create the perfect birthday dinner for my husband's BIG birthday. I won't say the age, but it was one of THOSE birthdays where you want to make sure it is special. We had 17 people for what everyone has described as the most magical evening they have experienced, perhaps ever or at least rarely. People that I would never have expected to "get it" were immediately bowled over by the ambiance, the intimacy and the fun that prevailed. When someone asked me after the fact how I would rate the experience on a scale of 1 to 10, I said without hesitation 400!!! In life we often want things to match our pictures, this so far exceeded our pictures of the evening that it at times defies description.
When you are at Cafe Monarch you feel you are at home or at the home of a dear, intimate friend. If food is love, then this is the place of boundless love. I have just finished lunch there today and will be heading back on Saturday for our anniversary. For us, it is the best "go to" place in the Valley and I have lived here a long time and eaten a lot of great food.
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