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away into the knife? They should. While nobody yodelled
for us this definitely is the place for lovers of cheese
and chocolates. Everybody kept asking what was being
celebrated. For the price of the meal it sure seems like
you need a reason to splurge to even walk through the
door. We all had a pretty good time regardless. I'm not
sure if all locations are like this but you probably
want to make a reservation if you are coming in on a weekend.
So the most popular way of enjoying a meal at The Melting
Pot is the four course deal. You get cheese fondue, salad,
an Entree and dessert (chocolate fondue). I must say that
for a lot of people by the time the third course is done,
that is pretty much it. You can tone down the amount of food
to fit the actual amount your group can handle eating. Even
if you have four people in your group, you can order the salads
for 2 or the entrees for 3. That helps a lot in terms of
portion control. When I was there, even the final dessert which
we ordered for one seemed to be a lot.
So you start off with a cheese fondue - you can choose from
Spinach Artichoke (Fontina and Butterkase with spinach and
artichoke hearts), Fiesta Cheese (aged cheddar with lager beer,
japaleno peppers and salsa), Cheddar Cheese (aged cheddar and
Emmenthaler Swiss with lager beer, garlic, and seasonings),
Wisconsin Trio Cheese (Fontina and Butterkase with buttermilk
bleu cheese, white wine, scallions, and sherry), Traditional
Swiss Cheese (Gruyere and Emmenthaler Swiss with white wine,
garlic, nutmeg, lemon and Kirschwasser) and finally the Big
Night Out Seasonal Cheese. The waiter comes and sets up a fondue
pot and mixes the cheese and all the ingredients which you can
then dip breads, fresh vegetables and apples into. This is sort
of like an appetizer so there's only one plate for everyone to
get items to dip from.
Then you have a choice of salads for the second course - The
Melting Pot House Salad, Spinach Mushroom Salad, Caesar Salad,
California Salad, and Big Night Out Salad. These are rather big
portions for a salad so if you have a small capacity you might
want to share rather than have each person getting their own salad.
Then we get to the entrees. This is the fun part because you
do your own cooking. First, you have to choose a cooking style.
Pretty much one for the whole group. You can choose from Coq au
Vin (Burgundy wine with fresh herbs, spices, and mushrooms), Court
Bouillon (vegetable broth with herbs and spices), Bourguignonne
(cholestrol-free canola oil), and Mojo (bouillon with fresh garlic
and citrus). For the entrees themselves, you have all sorts of
combinations of filet mignon, shrimp, salmon, chicken, sirloin,
pork tenderloin, duck, potstickers, ravioli, asparagus, tofu,
edamame, artichoke hearts, Andouille sausage, onion rings, lobster
tail, and Portobello mushrooms.
The cooking times were given for each type of food:
Poultry, Pork: 2 1/2 minutes
Seafood: 2 minutes
Beef: 1 1/2 minutes
Everything else: 1 minute
I used my iPhone's timer and used both fondue forks at a time
to try and get the cooking down to a science. A little silly and
fun at the same time. But by the end of it, I was stuffed. Our
group decided we'd have only one person's portion of the final
course - dessert.
For the final course, chocolate fondue (dessert) you get a
choice of Big Night Out Seasonal Chocolate, The Original (milk
chocolate, peanut butter), Yin & Yang (dark and white chocolate),
Cookies 'n Cream Marshmallow Dream (dark chocolate topped with
marshmallow cream flambeed and topped with Oreo cookies), Flaming
Turtle (milk chocolate, caramel and candied pecans flambéed), Pure
Chocolate (dark, white, or milk), Bananas Foster (Bananas and a
hint of cinnamon swirled in white chocolate), and Chocolate S'mores
(milk chocolate with marshmallow cream, flambéed and topped with
bits of graham crackers). We opted for the Cookies 'n Cream Marshmallow
Dream. They brought a plate of strawberries, bananas, cheesecake, Rice
Krispies Treats, marshmallows, pound cake and brownies to dip in.
It was definitely decadent and filled us all to the brim.
Parking is easy to find. It's in the same mall as Zendejas Grill and
Next Coffee. The restaurant itself is right across from Sylvan.
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