The Melting Pot is open Sunday through Thursday, 4:30pm to 10pm, and Friday and Saturday 4:30pm to 11pm. This restaurant is quite popular, so reservations are recommended, especially for larger groups. I have noticed that often the tables that seat two are empty, so for two you may not have that long of a wait if you decide to go at the last minute.

The Melting Pot is a chain fondue restaurant. Fondue is not just about great food, but it is the active experience of dipping and cooking at the table that makes the whole meal fun. Depending on the size of your party and the table you will have one pot and heating stove or two. When you have two, it is great to choose two different options for everything, so everyone can try different things.

The meal starts with cheese fondue. My favorite of the two we had was the Cheddar Cheese which is described in the menu as containing aged sharp cheddar cheese, Emmenthaler Swiss cheese, a lager beer base, garlic, and seasonings. The other kind we had was the Wisconsin Trio Cheese, which has a more bitter taste that I did not really enjoy. This one includes Fontina, Butterkase, Buttermilk Bleu cheese, white wine base, scallions, and sherry. To dip in the cheese, you are given small pieces of food such as bread and apples.

The entrée part of the meal may include a salad depending on what you choose. Our choices had salad and we had the mushroom salads, which included lots of mushrooms, greens, and Parmesan Italian dressing. It was a delicious salad. There are many different entrées including vegetarian platter, shrimp and sirlion, and breast of chicken. For the entrées, you also have to choose an oil base for cooking the things in. We choose coq au vin with flavors of fresh herbs, mushrooms, garlic, spices, and burgundy wine, and Mojo Style with Caribbean seasoned boullion and flavors of garlic and citrus flair. The Mojo Style has a little spiciness, which I did not really like, but I really liked the flavor of coq au vin. I had the vegetarian platter and it was full of great stuff including artichoke hearts, Portobello mushrooms, and Gorgonzola.

Dessert is my favorite part of a fondue meal. You can actually go and just have dessert, which is great for those who do not want to do a whole fondue meal. The two chocolate fondues we chose were Yin & Yang and Cookies 'n Cream Marshmallow Dream. The Yin & Yang is half dark chocolate and half white chocolate swirled to look like a Yin Yang symbol. The Cookies n' Cream Marshmallow Dream is dark chocolate topped with marshmallow cream, flambéed, swirled, and garnished with crushed Oreo cookies. Oreo covered marshmallows, strawberries, pineapple, poundcake, cheesecake, and more is provided for dipping in.