This weekend my family and I went bowling at Lucky Strikes at Crossgates Mall. Then we went to The Melting Pot. And after that we went to Dave and Busters.
As much fun as we had at all three places, today’s blog will be about our adventures at The Melting Pot.
For about a year or so now my husband has been wanting to take me to The Melting Pot. Saturday we were at CrossGates Mall with our kids. We were trying to figure out what we wanted for lunch when my husband suggested The Melting Pot. We figured it was as good a time as any to final try it. So we went!
When we first walked in to this places we waited a few minutes to be seated, but that was okay. When we were finally taken to our booth we quickly found out there was more to this place then meets the eye. It was like a maze in there! Who knew a restaurant could have so many rooms with booths? We sure didn’t.
When the waiter came to our booth he asked us if we had been there before. We told him no and we had no idea what we were doing. So he processed to explain how everything worked and we went from there.
We decided to order the four course fondue meal that they offer. Mind you we were learning as we went through this lunch which, by the way, took us about three hours.
Our first course was cheese fondue with different raw veggies, some bread bites and chips. We had a spinach artichoke cheese dip and a Wisconsin cheddar. We didn’t know what to expect and were pleasantly surprised when the waiter put all the ingredients together in the pot right in front of us. You know exactly what is going into your fondue!
Our second course was a simple salad. It was very good. I had the Strawberry Caprese.
Our third course was a variety of different raw meats to cook in different methods. We had duck, steak, chicken, shrimp and more. We cooked them in “Seasoned Court Bouillon” and “Mojo” — citrus type broth.
Our fourth course was chocolate fondue with different pieces of cake, fruit and marshmallows to dip in. We had the “Dark with Berries and Cream” which had mascarpone cheese and “Cookies and Cream Marshmallow Dream” which had bits of Oreo in with marshmallows and dark chocolate.
We had a lot of skewers to use for the different courses.
I have to say there was a lot to eat between all the different foods they gave us with each course. I personally liked the cheese and chocolate fondue the best. In fact my husband and I agreed the next time we go we would only do the cheese and chocolate fondue. We also would only do a single order. For the four of us we could have done two four course orders and it would have been enough (we did three and had a lot of left over meat–not any leftover chocolate though.)
I imagine there might be some people who don’t like to eat fondue, but I would highly suggest you give The Melting Pot a try. Maybe this place will change your mind. Maybe it won’t. All I know is for me the cheese fondue and the chocolate fondue I could have kept eating. The food was great and the waiter was friendly. I look forward to going back to The Melting Pot, but the next time I would like it to be a date with my wonderful husband.
