The Melting Pot

We have been wanting to go to the Melting Pot for a fondue date night for a couple of years now. We found out about it when we lived in Salt Lake, but we just never wanted to spend the money, or we were waiting for a very special occasion. Well, the special occasion was my 25th birthday of course! I will be 25 on Friday:) And it helped that Tuesday is 20% off for teachers, police officers, and firefighters. Plus, I signed up for their mailing list, and they sent me a free chocolate fondue for two coupon for my birthday. So after all those discounts, it still turned out to be the most we have ever spent at a restaurant, but since we have been looking forward to it for so long, it was worth it! We probably wont ever go again, but we had so much fun:) We had to take lots of pictures to record our experience. We also drove almost two hours to get there, so it was a big date night for us. We also barely ever go out to eat since we have lived in Elberton, so it was just a little treat for us:) On the drive home, it was getting dark and we started to think about it and realized we were eating in the restaurant for 3 hours, and we even had reservations, so we went in and sat right down. We were pretty much eating the whole time.

We started out with cheese fondue. We got Mexican cheeses. They put the pot in the middle of the table and then bring out the cheese and additives and melt it right in front of you. We got the fiesta cheese style, but it wasn't really spicy. We dipped bread, crackers, apples and veggies in the cheese. Then they brought us each a salad, which were really really good. Then they bring out a different pot of Vegetable broth and heat it really hot and some raw meat and vegetables and you dip the meat and veggies in the pot and it cooks. We got filet mignon, chicken, teriyaki sirloin, shrimp and salmon, they had like 6 bite sized pieces of each meat, then a bowl of potatoes, broccoli and mushrooms. That was the first time in my life I have ever tried Filet Mignon. It was okay, I liked the sirloin better.They also had a ton of sauces to dip them in. For dessert, we got cookies and cream chocolate fondue and they brought out strawberries, bananas, rice krispy treats, brownies, marshmallows, pound cake and cheesecake to dip in the chocolate. They also lit a candle on the cheesecake, so that was nice. It really was fun and Cheyenne was really good the whole time, except toward the middle she started "talking" loudly, so Jeff just held her the rest of the time. I think everyone should experience a dinner at The Melting Pot at some point in their lives!!