The Melting Pot

Andy and I had a great time on our date last night! The Melting Pot was a fun restaurant to try. It seems a little out of place in it's location, with the stores around it but whatever. You walk in and forget what it looked like walking in! The inside feels fancy and for what you pay it should look the part. The decor is really nice- greys and blacks- looks upscale. We were impressed. Every table has it's own heating element (or 2) for the fondue pots. With it just being the two of us and me not having a whole lot of room in my belly we didn't get dessert. But we seriously plan to go back JUST for dessert sometime so we can really appreciate the chocolate fondue! Any one want to join us? It would be fun to go with a group for dessert. Just think, dipping brownie bites, cheesecake, fruit, rice krispie treats, marshmallows...in melted chocolate. ANYWAY! We decided on the 3 course meal for 2 (instead of the 4 courses). We got to choose a cheese fondue, salad, and our meat selection. We chose the Carribean Cheese fondue (I think that is what it was called). It had two types of cheese, some type of red pepper, garlic, scallions, and a few other ingredients in it. They bring out all the ingredients and make it there in your fondue pot. Pretty cool! We dipped raw carrots/celery/cauliflower, bread, and granny smith apples into the cheese fondue. It was yummy. Then they brought our our salads. Andy had a Ceaser salad which he really enjoyed and I had a California salad (gorgonzola cheese, walnuts, raspberry vinagrette). Again, yummy! Last came our cooking pot. You choose what you want to cook your meat in. There are 4 choices. We chose a vegetable broth which we liked. Our meat included shrimp, salmon, chicken, teriyaki steak, and plain steak. They also bring broccoli, new potatoes, and mushrooms. Then there were 6 sauces to dip your meat in after cooking it. This part was fun- we each cooked 2 things at a time and tried the different sauces. It was good. We were stuffed! We didn't eat any of the mushrooms but we ate everything else. Our favorite was the shrimp. They have a great cocktail sauce. It was a very fun experience. Definitely not a place you could go to very often because of $$ but it was fun! We do plan to return for chocolate fondue sometime in the near future but it will probably be a long time before we have dinner there again. They told us it would take about 2 hours for dinner and they were right. It went fast though because we were having so much fun!