Melting Pot — Restaurant in Salt Lake City

This is my favorite birthday dinner place. I've listed my favorites below. In my opinion, it's best for a couple rather then a group. You CAN have a group but I think access to the pot and the amount of food/cheese/dessert in the pot is more fun as a couple. Most the booths are private so you feel like you're there alone. You need to make a reservation to eat here. Plan on extra time as well. It's a very fun experience and it takes longer then a regular dinner but it is SO WORTH IT. Our favorites are getting the 4 course meal that includes a shared cheese pot, an individual choice salad, individual choose of your main course, and shared dessert pot. I always choose the California salad, which has blue cheese crumbles, candied walnuts and a raspberry vinaigrette. The blue cheese is smooth without a strong mold taste that blue cheese can get and it pairs perfectly with the dressing. The wedge salad is another favorite. For our "cooking style", which is a broth that you will cook your various meats in, we like the Mojo style best. It's a very rich Caribbean style broth with citrus and they squeeze a half an orange in it. It's something I'd never think of at home but the citrus really brightens the broth and pairs well with all the meat choices. We like the fiesta or Wisconsin cheese styles for our cheese pot. The Wisconsin is a white base but still a sharper cheese flavor while the fiesta is American and cheddar cheeses with salsa and fresh jalapenos. For your main course, you can either choose individual meats (up to 4) or choose a pre-made suggestion. I like the "classic", which has herb crusted chicken, teriyaki pork, tender pork loin, sirloin steak, and shrimp. They bring them raw on a plate and you skewer them and cook them in the boiling broth. They bring out broccoli, red potatoes, and mushrooms to cook in the broth along with your meats. We usually put them in the broth immediately so the potatoes soak up the rich broth in time to eat them with your meat. They also bring out a variety of sauces to go with the veggies and meat. Our favorites are the yogurt curry sauce and the creamy gorgonzola cheese sauce. They also bring out their signature garlic wine seasoning, which is in a shaker like salt and it adds so much flavor for everything. In fact you can purchase one to take home, which we do, and it is so flavorful that a little touch will do on pretty much any meat you make at home. I also use it in tuna salad specifically. For dessert, our favorite is their candy bar chocolate flavor. It has a dollop of peanut butter, crunchy toffee bits, and a creamy dark chocolate. The peanut butter is VERY subtle. Just perfect. It tastes just like a melted snickers bar. They bring you a glorious tray with strawberries, rice crispy treats, marshmallows, pineapple, pound cake, brownie pieces, chocolate chip cookie chunks, and a bit of cheese cake..... it is a HUGE PARTY for your mouth!!! There's so much food by this time that you're totally stuffed but the melted chocolate and the goodies they give you to dip in it is so decadent and delicious that you're going to want to eat every bite and lick the pot (but don't because it's way hot by the time you're done). If this review doesn't sell you on what a great dining experience The Melting Pot is, then I need to stop reviewing because this is my number one favorite place!!! Each step is its own delicious experience and the relaxed, casual, private atmosphere makes for a whole...

We thought we would enjoy a wonderful dinner. Well their manager definitely made sure that it was anything but wonderful. They had confirmed our reservation and two hours before we were to be there called with the change on a promotion that we had verified they were running. But since we were planning on having dinner with our kids and meeting them there, we decided we would just bite the bullet and have what was planned. The course came out and it was cold. It was ready and the general manager came by to ask us how we liked it. Mentioned to him that it came out cold and that it was not a stringy cheese consistency. And here I must tell you, I’ve lived in the mountains for 18 years and had left for a short period of time and came back. Now back to my review, the manager insisted that I was expecting a different consistency to my cheese Because we’re in an elevated location. I told him I knew we were that I’ve lived here before and then I’ve dined at that restaurant and that there never was this problem previously. He very rudely informed me that it was due to the elevation that the cheese was not stringy, not gooey not anything like even store-bought fondue should be , and he turned on his heel and walked away. He had already made arrangements with my husband to come to the table and do something about the fact that they had represented that the promotion was going on, and because I informed him that I had lived at this elevation previously , he made sure he never returned to the table and he never checked on us. Melting pot is a national chain that has certain standards. This general manager needs to go back to school and learn them or see if Burger King is hiring. On top of it, they have gotten rid of their mints , making the cheese dish so you can get it prepared the way you want, providing warmed items for the dinner, providing service where you don’t have to ask another server to refill your water. I am so glad I know that the whole chain is not like this Manager is running his restaurant. Unfortunately, in Utah, you only have one choice thank heavens, Idaho, Wyoming Nevada and California offer melting pot restaurants that know how to serve the proper proper way if you’re looking for a bargain basement meal or at least that type of service this is the place to go if you want fine dining like they used to do going here . my review is not because we didn’t get what was promised. It’s because it’s the honest truth about how they are. We will not be going back and it’s a shame. They are a good restaurant chain. This franchise...

My family and I were able to have a delightfully, delectable lunch at The Melting Pot restaurant. All of us thoroughly enjoyed our food and we were grateful that we decided to go ahead and have cheese fondue in addition to the entree fondue and the chocolate fondue. I decided I wanted chocolate fondue instead of a birthday cake this year. The food was so amazing that I didn't even think to get any pictures! I thought that cheese fondue would be so so, but the spinach artichoke cheese dip was out of this world, and then the Wisconsin cheddar cheese dip was so amazing! It was so nice too, since my teens and I have such sensitive palates, that the staff was willing to leave out the Sam Adams Boston Lager alcohol. The entree was excellent as well. We worked together to choose food that we would all like. We chose a vegetable broth for our fondue pot and also my husband chose a cast iron grill for us to cook our food on the other burner. We selected filet mignon, shrimp, chicken breast, and what was called the Pacific Rim. That had some teriyaki steak, some potstickers, some duck, and some ahi tuna rolled in sesame seeds ( I got to eat that, both pieces yummy yummy ). There were also various assorted vegetables that we could cook as well but I found myself eating most of mine raw and I discovered at the end some curry sauce that was so good, that I wish I discovered it at the beginning. It was delicious! I was dribbling it on my broccoli, I dribbled it on my last piece of grilled chicken, and it would have been so good on the chicken the whole time but I'll know for next time! This is a place that you don't go out to eat at all the time, it's super expensive and super special. We got two different kinds of chocolate fondue, one was peanut butter and chocolate fondue which was fantastically delicious, and the other was a pure dark chocolate fondue that was decadent. Everyone at our table really enjoyed both of them very much. There was so many assorted delights to dip them in. We had cut fruit such as strawberries, bananas, pineapple: we had assorted treats cut into cubes, such as pound cake, brownies, blondies, rice crispy treats, and marshmallows coated in oreos crumbs. I felt like I died and...