Fondue makes one think of chocolate covered strawberries or pretzels. The Melting Pot offers chocolate fondue, but that is not all. The restaurant also serves cheese fondue, as well as many other types. The Melting Pot restaurant is located in Reston and is not very far for those of you who live in Great Falls.
I went with seven other people to celebrate my friend’s birthday. We started out with cheese fondue. I do not normally enjoy cheese fondue, but I loved dipping green apples into the cheese. It sounds quite odd, but the mixture of the sweet with tangy was absolutely amazing. They also provided us with bread and vegetables to dip in the cheese, but I did not really like either of those mixtures.
After that, a pot of broth was provided for us to dip the meat into. The meat is given to your aw and you cook it for two minutes by putting it in the broth. I had steak,chicken, and shrimp. I lost my meat twice and had to dig around for it in the pot, so be very careful when you take your meat out! The meat also came with six different sauces that you could dip them in. Every time I tried a new sauce a different taste was created. I enjoyed most of the sauces, but there was one that was very spicy. It felt like my tongue was on fire, which is never good.
I then got two different dessert fondues. One was the classic dark chocolate and the other was a Bananas Foster. Bananas Foster was white chocolate, bananas and cinnamon all mixed together – it was a disaster. There were too many different tastes swirling around in that pot. The dark chocolate, however, was one of the best desserts I have ever had in my life. They gave us a variety of different items to dip into the dessert fondue, including rice crispy treats and marshmallows.
The Melting Pot is expensive and it is not a restaurant you would go to every week. But if you have a birthday or other special event coming up, you should definitely give The Melting Pot a try.