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148, XinYi Rd., Sec. 4
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--By Joe Duffer, translated by Jean
Huang
The Chocolate and Love Experience plays
every Wednesday night at-you guessed it-Chocolate and
Love from 10 p.m. till 12 midnight, and often a lot
longer than that. "You should have been here on
Saturday night," said Ben Noun "We played
until 3 a.m. People would not let us go." The cover
charge is NT$100 for a seat upstairs in front of the
band. It's for a real Rock ( and Roll) show with audience
participation, a bit of improvisation, and rock classics
from the '60s, '70s, '80s to the present, featuring
many nationalities on stage.
Ray Anthony (Indian) is a guitar master
and superb vocalist who should be raking in a Mick Jagger
sized income for his talents. When he breaks into Traffic
and Steve Winwood's "Find My Way Home", it's
pure inspiration. Close your eyes and one would think
that Traffic and Winwood were right there in front of
you jamming at C&L; simply awesome. Barry Smit (C&L
owner) joins in with some great sounding Stones tunes,
and on the Police's "Message In A Bottle",
which he affectionately refers to as the Grolsch (NT$180)
song. Marco Orthmann (German) on drums, Ben Noun (Israeli)
on second lead guitar, and Guang Yao (Taiwanese) on
bass guitar keep it all tight and in line.
But it's not all about the band, or
bands, as five nights a week your will find superb live
entertainment at C&L. The place is two floors of
music, art, love and great food. Nathan's Kitchen now
offers a menu of five starters and five main courses,
all prepared with only the freshest ingredients and
cooked to perfection. The kitchen is open from 6:30
p.m. till midnight.
C&L also has organic chocolate endorsed by Jane
Goodall, with all proceeds going to the Jane Goodall
Institute, and Chocolate Letters (yes, as in the "Alphabet")
specially imported from Holland. And, finally, Chocolate
and Love are the exclusive importers of absinthe and
the only Absinthe House in Taiwan. For a true trip back
to the "Lost Generation" of Hemmingway and
Oscar Wilde, or the ear whacking madness of Van Gogh,
only absinthe will take you there. And, while not nearly
as hallucinogenic or dangerous as it once was, the absinthe
at C&L will still knock your socks off. Be careful,
because with too much of it, as Winwood sings, you may
become lost and not find your way back home.
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