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| - I am so sad to have to write this review. I was watching Diners, Drive-ins, and Dives about two months ago, and I saw Melt on the show. I knew I would be in Ohio this month, so I told my family I really wanted to try to come here on our trip. I was so excited to come here.
We attempted to come on Monday, since we were at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and Melt is less than 10 miles from there. They were closed for Memorial Day. The rest of the trip we didn't have time to come. My sister lives about 45 minutes outside of Lakewood, and nobody in my family wanted to drive that far to eat.
When we were packing up and getting ready to leave on Thursday morning, I asked my dad if we had time to swing by and eat here before going to the airport. He had me look it up on the map, and he determined that we could squeeze it in.
We drove over here and parked about 15 minutes before they opened. Since I had read that the wait is normally atrocious, I was happy that we were going to be the first ones seated.
Doors opened and we walked in right at 11 on the dot. We were seated. And then we proceeded to wait, and wait, and wait. The place filled up very quickly. By 11:30 there were people waiting to be seated.
The waitress came over and took our orders, and then she didn't come back for 30 minutes. Meanwhile, people at other tables were getting served, and I saw them pumping out to-go orders from the kitchen like nobody's business. I honestly thought we were going to have to get up and leave, since we still had to return the rental car and take the shuttle over to the airport.
About 35 minutes after placing our order, the waitress came over and said our food would be out shortly, and that they had a ton of to-go orders today, which is why we were waiting.
The food arrived. I had ordered a Havarti grilled cheese, salad with garlic dressing, and potato leek soup. My stepmom got an American grilled cheese, salad with ranch, and tomato garlic soup. My dad got some sort of pork grilled cheese that had bacon and ham on it.
None of us liked the food. My salad dressing was literally pureed garlic. I couldn't eat it because it was too strong. My potato leek soup...maybe I was just expecting something different. I thought it would be chunky...potato chunks and chopped leeks. It was just a puree of what tasted like celery and pepper. Nasty.
My stepmom's tomato garlic soup tasted like marinara sauce (must be an Ohio thing, see my review of O'Charleys) and her salad was just so-so.
The worst though, was the grilled cheese. The bread slices were 1 inch thick. So, you have 2 inches of bread, and like, one slice of cheese. The bread to cheese ratio was not good. I ended up taking off the top piece of bread and only eating the bottom.
My dad said his pork grilled cheese was alright, but also too much bread.
The waitress came by to see how everything was and my dad told her to bring the check because we were in a hurry. At this point we had been there over an hour. Apparently they don't fuck around when it comes time to pay up and get you out of the restaurant, cause she brought the bill within seconds and it only took her about 2 minutes to charge the credit card and bring the receipt to us.
I was seriously so disappointed in Melt, and I felt so bad that I made my parents go out of the way and come here. Last time I listen to you, Guy Fierri.
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