Cocofé-my first review!

Never fear fellow Long-Islanders, Spring is almost here.  After our six hour defensive driving course (I know, I know–how lame, but we’ll be spending 10% less on car insurance and we did not even switch to GEICO) Sam and I wandered down to Cold Spring Harbor and then made our way back to Huntington Village.  For Christmas I had gotten Sam a gift certificate for "Cocofé ," the village’s newest yuppy place to sit and unwind.  Their website boasts that they "unleash the chocolate experience" and since Sam is such a chocolate lover, I thought he might really like this trying this place out.  So here we are in March, finally finding the time to use the gift card.

Upon entering the café has a very modern and streamlined feel to it.  Although it is clean and aesthetically balanced, I was immediately struck with the complete lack of service.  Four of the café’s employees saw us walk in the door and never greeted us or clued us in-should we take a seat or wait to be shown to a table?  After a few awkward moments of standing in the doorway I finally asked what should we do and we were politely told to sit wherever we wanted.   After some time our waitress came with the menus.  While flipping through the pages, I was glad to notice that the parties who walked through the door after us had the same awkward "why is the staff sticking their noses in the air at us and is it okay to take a seat wherever we want" look on their faces that Sam and I must have had.  Don’t worry kids, the service only went downhill from there.  I ordered a British Breakfast Tea and Sam asked for a glass of water.  Never were we asked for a refill and if we had, I think the waitress’ glare could have boiled the extra hot water I wanted.  Us Long Islanders know we get better service from the local diner.

Onto the food! Service might be bad food can forgive that.  Since we only wanted a little something, Sam and I split a Margherita pizza–$15.  That’s when I decided this café serves classic "girl food."  Big price, little portions! I watched two other couples perusing the menu outside while we ate…you could read the looks on the guys’ faces: "but hunny, I’m starving.  I need a steak and lots of it! Please don’t make me eat here!"  The pizza was good…but onto what we really came for…CHOCOLATE!

After we finally got our waitresses’ acknowledgement again, we put in an order for the Double Chocolate Fondue ($15).  When our server brought out the warming dish that the bowl of fondue rests on, I noticed it was still dirty from the previous guests’ use.  There was even a chunk of left-over pineapple gracing our presence on it–yuck.  Still, chocolate covers a multitude of sins.  Finally the chocolate arrived and Sam and I spent the rest of our time dipping strawberries, pineapple, bananas and brownie bits into white and milk chocolate goodness.

All in all, it was a lot of fun and I had a great time but Sam deserves all the credit for that.  The fondue was good and hit the chocolate whole I was looking to fill.  Nothing will beat the $10/person bottomless dippers fondue Port Jefferson’s Toast spins out at night. However, the price for a "fondue night out" is under $10/person–much less than the Melting Pot, Cocofé’s local rival down 110 in Melville.  If you and your date our looking to do something in the $20 bracket, this could be a fun thing as long as you know what to expect (oh, it also helps if your date is as loveable as mine was).

Since Sam and I do not have the ability to produce money out of thin air (unlike our government) I think the much more budget friendly way to do fondue will be in the privacy of our home.  I can’t wait for our next couples’ dinner where we can try doing creating this fun and social dessert!

If you’ve been to Huntington’s Cocofé let me know what you think!