Our Favorite Tradition
About four years ago my best friend, Christina, and I decided to stop buying each other Christmas presents and instead treat ourselves to dinner at The Melting Pot around the holidays. It has been a great tradition and we both look forward to it around Christmas. We of course take our husbands along and have a nice quiet four course dinner. The Melting Pot is a fondue style restaurant. 
You start with a type of cheese and you get breads and veggies and apples to dip into the melting cheese. We try to always reserve a table with two burners so that we can have two different selections while we eat. After we fill up on cheese and clean the pot dry, we get our salad. We always choose the chef salad with the house dressing because it is by far the best one they offer. Their salad dressing alone is worth the trip for dinner. Then onto the main course where you select what type of bullion you'd like to cook you meat in. 
The waiter brings out the broth and you get a selection of meats to cook in it. We always go for the Pacific Rim because it comes with all our favorites. We usually are pretty full by the time we are through with the main course but you can't take a trip to The Melting Pot without getting chocolate fondue. There are several different versions you can go with and we always have a hard time deciding but it is hard to go wrong with chocolate. 
The waiter brings the chocolate out and always sets it on fire for us (we really like that part) and then we are free to dip a variety of fruits and cakes in it, as well as brownies and marsh-mallows. I have a lot of traditions that I like to repeat but I don't think any come close to this one. We get to go out with my best friend
in the world and spend about 3 hours over dinner talking and relaxing and we get to eat our favorite meal while we're at it. We would go all the time but it is pretty expensive.
Peter and I got away pretty easy this time though because I had a coupon for free chocolate and then we had a gift card left over from the last time we visited.
posted by We are the Taylors @ 11:49 PM
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