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| - I had a $100 gift card from two Christmases ago. I've been to the melting pot thrice before, which is why I wasn't in any particular hurry to use it. The last time I went there was a "spa" night event...the meal was sparse and a waiter ended up spilling an ENTIRE tray of red wine, mixed chocolate martinis and cosmos on me. So, yeah.
Anyway, a friend of mine came in from out of town and so I decided that since it's been two years, I would take her here (she really wanted to experience it). We went for "The Big Night Out"
Service: Hostess was great, our server was excellent.
Drinks: wine and cosmo. standard fare.
Cheese: Much improved since last visit-got the blend with the bacon and scallions...
Bread: As another Yelper noted, it was poor quality, supermarket-ish. Ours was half stale. Veggies were obv not prepared on site (bagged), as pointed out by another yelper. The apples were sliced so small they were hard to dip, so we left those alone.
Salad: Excellent, with good dressing, bacon and bleu cheese. We really liked the salads.
We ordered Coq au Vin-style cooking. No flavor. We ordered the lobster, shrimp, chicken and beef and some sort of potsticker/shumai was also on our plate. (We swapped the pork out for more shrimp.)
What was new: They salted/seasoned everything up to 11...it arrived raw at our table and looked like it would be less bland than my last experience.
Wrong. The coq au vin broth was so bland, it did not add any flavor in the least, but it was salty, which most Americans would mistake for "flavor". The broth washed or cooked off whatever spice was on the meat...which is why I think they give you six sauces to dip it all in. The meat was much higher quality than my last visits, but much less plentiful. The best thing was the lobster and shrimp. We left quite a bit on the plate and didn't even bother cooking it all to take home, if that tells you our level of excitement.
Dessert: The flaming turtle. The chocolate was good, but had only a tiny sprinkle of pecans (you really couldn't taste them, it did not taste like "turtle"). It came with a small plain slice of cheesecake, 2 strawberry haves, 4 coated marshmallows, 2 tiny brownie squares and 4 rice krispy treats. It was very sparse compared to when this place first opened...my man and I had so much food left over from "The Big Night Out" we cooked it and took it home with a huge box for the dessert leftovers as well.
While we were having dessert, our server stopped by and dropped off extra rice krispy treats for fun; he was a nice guy. We ended up packing much of the dessert away for the husbands and children. Check, without tip, exceeded $100; we tipped very well for the service and we left. My friend was happy to have finally experienced the place, I used up my gift card, we had time to catch up...but we were largely unimpressed. The server and the cheese fondue are the only saving graces, but for goodness' sake, GET SOME BREAD THAT'S DECENT!!!!
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