Mouth watering good

The Meltng Pot is a great Adventure

When you first walk into The Melting Pot, you will get the feel for an entirely different dining experience, and the excitement awaits you.

There is a fully stocked bar with light jazz music paying in the background and the atmosphere is contemporary with an industrial edge to it. The dining area is cozy and private, perfect for entertaining or a romantic evening.

Here the menu is one of a kind in this area. You can start with a Cheddar Cheese Fondue and then go with an entree from there. The entrees include a salad of your choice. The waitperson starts the fondue pot as you sit talking over a glass of wine. Soon the fondue wine has started to steam and cheese is melted by your server into the pot right in front of you! The bread basket has three types of bread as well a apples, broccoli, carrots, and celery. Be sure to poke the crust of the bread when dipping in the fondu and remember the closer you get to the bottom of the cheese the hotter it gets so be careful not to burn your mouth.

When you're done with the cheese fondue get ready for the entrée! You have the option to get The Traditional Fondue Style or the Fondue Court Boullion Style which is low in fat and cholesterol-free. The entrée dipping pot comes out in this unusual torture chamber holding device. Once the broth starts boiling you receive the entrée you've ordered. The entrée is served with several choices of sauce. I had the Pacific Rim Entrée consisting of steak, chicken, duck, shitake mushrooms and potstickers. The sauces served with this entree include Horseradish, a sour cream mixture, curry (my personal favorite), a plum sauce and Thai peanut sauce. If eating an entrée with meat it is very important that you remember not to put the uncooked meat onto your pewter plate. All uncooked meat belongs on the white plate. So you're poking the food, dipping it and then eating... so much fun!. Unless, of course, it's the vegetables you get along with the entrée. This method is to toss into the bouillon then in a minute or two spoon out and onto your plate.

There are signs on the table indicating the dipping time. Most foods take a minute or two. Everyone at the table has color coded skewers so when dining and talking all you have to remember is the color of your skewer.

The wait staff goes through a intense training period and when tipping please keep in mind how hard they are working for you.

The Melting Pot is a fun and totally new dining experience.

Marie Berna/1999