We went to the The Melting Pot for Mother's Day last Saturday. As you might know I boycott establishments on Valentine's Day and Mother's Day especially this establishment as we went here a couple of Mother's Days ago and got a prix fixe menu (i.e., hey Moms, you don't get to choose what you want because we're only making these 5 items) and felt rushed through. This time, the weekend after Mother's Day, we came here at 6pm and left almost 3 hours later. We only had cheese fondues (three in a row, to be exact) and then hit a dessert fondue.
If you haven't been to The Melting Pot, they prepare the fondues right at your table, mixing some savory liquid (beer, sherry, bouillion), the cheeses, the spices and stirring it around. We asked our waiter if he was given special training for it and he said when he applied there, he was given this huge written wine test because The Melting Pot is also known for its fine wine (since we're not wine connoisseurs, we had no idea). He then went through three interviews, two weeks of training and then a final exam (a lot of it on wine pairing). He said about 7 out of 10 pass this final. Who knew?!
So of course, given we had a wine expert, we asked for his recommendation for the final cheese fondue and he got us a nice Hess Cabernet and a "buttery" Chardonnay. Again, we're not wine experts, but they balanced nicely against the savory cheese fondue.
And of course, we had a dessert fondue. The stuff you dip into the fondue is a dessert platter by itself:
We chose the bananas foster fondue, which they made with white chocolate and bananas and managed to flambe, including the the cinnamon which looked like burning embers.
Needless to say it was delicious.
Hope everyone had a sweet Mother's Day--whenever you celebrated it!
Such a riot! I can just imagine you going crazy with all the dunking (“make sure mine has enough cheese on it!”).
ReplyDeleteI told Dec he had to pick, shop and pay (with my money of course) for the gift. I was doing nothing except supplying the cash. Of course he got Janet the perfect video game (how convenient). After losing my mom, I’m not big on this anymore. But I finally got into the sprint and cooked dinner-the best franks n’ beans around-with fancy Trader Joe’s chips on the side. And yet another good excuse to get some Magnolia’s cupcakes!
-pb