How does the Melting pot resturant work?

Question

i read about the melting pot resturant and i want to take my boyfriend for his birthday. It is a little expensive, but it looks like you get a lot of food. Can you take the leftovers home? and what about the sauces? It would seem like a huge waste if you cant.

Also i read you cook the food your self. I am not very god at cooking stuff, how does this work. Do you fry it? or what.

any other info you can give is cool too.

Answer 1

When we went there were three courses.

First the cheese...you can choose from a few options for the cheeses...we had a cheddar with wine I think...the server puts all the ingredients in the pot on your table...there's a burner underneath. The only cooking you have to do here is stir occasionally. The they provide a tray of veggies and bread to dip in the cheese once it is melted...yummy good stuff.

Next was the meat course. Again you choose the oils for the pot and what kind of meat(s) you want. They will give you a tray of raw meat and the different sauces in little dipping bowls. You put the meat on your fondue fork and leave it in the hot oil to 'braise' until it is done. Your server will advise you on how long to leave it in depending on what type of meat it is and how well done do you want it.

The last part was the dessert course. Here again you get choices for your sauce (Dark chocolate, milk chocolate, chocolate with brandy, etc,). The server will again set it up for you, and serve you a tray of fruits, pound cake, marshmallows, and other yummy stuff tha just craves to be dipped in warm melty chocolate. If you don't want to spend a fortune on your meal, go to the Melting Pot just for the dessert...absolutely worth it!

I hope you enjoy yourself when you go!

Answer 2

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Answer 3

It is a fondue restaurant. Look up fondue on the net and you will get the general idea. They have oil and cheese fondues as well as the more well known desert fondues.
The cheese ones are just dip something in and coat them with cheese and eat, the oil ones are a bit more complex as you have to put raw food on th fork and hold it in the oil until it cooks, but you can always adjust the time you leave it in or pull it at the same time the others at the table seem to. If you watch the other tables you will get a general idea how to do it.
As for what you can take home, I do not know. I can tell you that it would seem silly not to take it home. I can see a problem with some of the chocolate sauces but not a big one.
Call the restaurant to see.
My friends and I used to do a fondue night about once a month, we would have 6 pots going all at the same time (oil, cheese, chocolate, caramel) and did we have FUN! The first person to lose something in a pot got cleanup LOL

Answer 4

its all fondue...and I've never seena anyone take it home afterwards so I would have to say no to that.

and no, you don't get alot of food and you will spend a lot of money for really nothing.

its a dimily lit restaurant with booths, normally in dark red and browns. you get a fondue pot that is nothing more than a small sauce pan with a flame under it. either items like chocolate or peanut oil will be in them. then you take this tiny long thin forks and stab some meat chunks or say brocolli and then tip/cook them in the sauce for bit, pull it out and eat that one piece. then start all over again.

a normal meal is over an hour as you can't eat fast cause you have to let each mouthful cook first.

now fondue at home is nicer, easier, more choices and you can cook it faster too. any store will carry a fondue pot in the normal cooking item isle. all you need is some corn or peanut oil and say a good slab of meat or even get pre cut up chunks from the butcher. once the oil is heated, dip in your forks.

parents had one as a kid, loved it, went to melting pot twice, both times I said I'd never return and since, I haven't.

Answer 5

Melting Pot At Home

Answer 6

that's a fondue eating place. An appetizer would be cheese fondue with bread cubes. Entree would be fish, beef or fowl with the two a fondue pot of broth or oil. Dessert would be melted chocolate with the two fruit or products of cake. anybody has a small steel skewer to %. up the bread/meat/fruit with and dip into the fondue pot. You get to cook your meat on your liking. No double dipping. additionally they have vegetables. that's a chilled meal, and can be high priced.