The Melting Pot

I’m posting this a bit late but after scrolling through my pictures I simply couldn’t resist. A friend and I had wanted to catch up for a while and intended to go to Melting Pot for restaurant week. Unfortunately for us, we somehow planned our dinner for the day right after restaurant week ended T_T 

Luckily for this blog though, we got to order a lot more food and take a lot more pictures!

After much deliberation (there are lots of choices) we decided to go with the “4-Course By You” option (mostly because we couldn’t choose). This included a cheese fondue, an individual salad, an individual entrée, and a chocolate fondue.

For our cheese fondue, we went with the traditional cheddar option with sharp cheddar and swiss cheese, lager beer, garlic, and other seasoning. This came in a melted pot with plates of fresh bread, apples, grapes, and bell peppers. Although I’m not the biggest cheese eater, I definitely enjoyed it – especially the bread. The fruit provided an interesting palate contrast with the salty cheese fondue, as did the bell peppers. The best part is we could ask for second helpings (which we did).

Cheese Fondue

For the salad, I went with the Melting Pot House Salad, which was good, but not particularly memorable compared to the other dishes. For our individual entrees we went with Seafood Trio (mahi mahi, shrimp, and salmon) and The Classic (Angus sirloin, BBQ pork, shrimp, chicken breast, and teriyaki sirloin). The meat came out seasoned and raw on platters and we were given a pot of fresh seasoned vegetable broth to cook it in (think hot pot). The result was an incredibly fresh dinner, cooked just the way we liked it (not that I’m any good at cooking). Everything was seasoned wonderfully with bursts of flavor in every bite. I was legitimately sad when I finished eating, but definitely ready for dessert! Oh, and it also came with vegetables! 

Seafood Trio

The Classic

Vegetables!

The whole picture

And at last, the long-awaited chocolate fondue. All the choices were way too tempting, but we finally went with chocolate s’mores fondue which had milk chocolate with toasted marshmallow cream and graham cracker bits. With it came dippers in the form of strawberries, bananas, cheesecake, Rice Krispies, marshmallows, pound cake, and brownies. It was heavenly. The only bad part is, I couldn’t resist asking for seconds and consequently could barely move from my seat afterwards.  #toofullcantbreathe 

S'mores Fondue

Dippers!

Overall, it was a great experience, a little too pricey to go often, but a great treat.