What: The Melting Pot
Where: 9th and Marquette, downtown Minneapolis
Rating: 7
Non-Quantifiable Rating: The meal gets even more expensive when you have to fix your pants because you ate too much and busted the button.
Congratulations. I'm about to save you $60 bucks and all you had to do was read my blog. Here's the deal with the Melting Pot: It's good food and a great alternative to the "normal" restaurant experience, but it's friggin' expensive, especially when you spring for the three-course fondue meal. Here's the big secret: the cheese fondue appetizer is to die for, the chocolate fondue dessert changed my life, but the entree (we did coq au vin) is pretty blah. There's nothing wrong with it, but the cheapest one is $26 per person. Seriously.
And besides, it's a ridiculous amount of food, even for me (I'm proud/ashamed to say that the waiter commented that my husband and I were the only people he's ever seen polish off every morsel of all three courses).
So....go to the Melting Pot, order the Wisconsin Cheese Trio and have them do the dessert course with peanut butter and dark chocolate (it's not on the menu, but if you ask they'll do it....it's one of the best desserts I've had in my whole life.)
p.s.: Dear Melting Pot Waiter Guy: In general, it's not kind to comment on how much a woman is able to eat. Luckily for you, it happens to be a point of pride for me.
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