The Melting Pot is great, but before I tell you where it falls on my line of great places to eat, I have to explain the curve. Basically, it’s just a really fat bell curve. Really fat. 50% of the points are between four and six. Which means anything above a six is pretty damn good, and anything less than a four is pretty bad. I also rate things according to what they purport to be.

The Melting Pot purports to be a high-class, classy and elegant fondue joint. It doesn’t do too bad, but it doesn’t do excessively well either. The fact that there is no ventilation system to speak of means that the whole resturant smells of everyone else’s food. There’s also a perpetual haze over the whole place, and I can’t really tell if that’s a good thing or not.

The food itself is excellent. It’s really good. The service, on the other hand, sucks. My date and I were sequestered in a corner of the resturant, and not waited upon at all. As long as the dinner was, I would have expected to been visted by our server (Amanda?) much more often. However, and at this point it may just be stating the obvious, we weren’t.

But, service aside, everything else was outstanding. The fondue was prepared at the table, the broth cooked at our table as well, and the meat shortly thereafter. Everything tasted delicious.

I give it a rating of 8.5, overall, and I think it’s a bit generous. I had a really good night on Friday, and the Melting Pot benefits from it. That and that wicked 23% tip I gave.

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