Melting Pot - Bucket List Adevnture dated 4/5/2013

Melting pot

I went to Sacramento to try out this new restaurant called the Melting Pot. It’s a fondue place that is set up with burners for the fondue pots they use for the meals. My friend Julie and I had five courses: the first course was a bunch of breads and cheeses, and veggies with a spinach mushroom dip, the next was salads, third was the meat course of chicken, beef, mushrooms, in a wine mixed sauce for the burner to cook, which was delectable! All we had to do was take our skewer sticks, stick them in for 3-5 minutes and viola, cooked food. I loved being able to cook so easily and chat and have a glass of wine at the same time. Each meat could have a different sauce such as hollandaise, bbq teriyaki, and other assorted toppings to go with them. Julie was pretty skilled at cooking, so I watched her first so that I could get the hang of it; turned out to be really easy. The place has low lighting and usually a spot for special occasions and since I figured it was a check off the bucket list, I thought that one was. Finally, came the dessert: cheesecake, strawberries, bananas, brownies, and pound cake to dip into a banana cream, buttery, chocolate delight, aka heaven in the mouth. I would say I was in a permament coma with a food baby by the time we received our checks. My mouth dropped big time, it was expensive! Not like $50 bucks expensive, but even higher, each of us paid around $65 for the entire set of courses! It is fancy place to take a loved one, or celebrate, but not for your average Friday night go out dinner. Needless to say, I am glad I came and left with a happy tummy and slept quite well that night.