Yes, they opened a melting pot in toronto! I was so excited when I saw it..although I've never been to the one in the states but I've always heard good things about it. So, on my birthday weekend I decided to come here with my friends as a birthday dinner.
Apparently you can make reservations online, which I did. I made reservations for 8:15 but we weren't seated till 930. Yes, I was not happy. Their explanation was basically saying the person hogging our table was sitting around and didn't want to leave yet. They noticed I wasn't happy and after waiting more than 20 minutes, I went back asking them how much longer the wait is going to be. They apologized and gave us free drinks. I ordered the Yin-Yang. Apparently it is their house special cocktail? (originally $13)
Looks nice tastes good. It's basically a mix of icecream and smirn-off, with godiva white chocolate. Yes, the chocolate is godiva, my favorite chocolate.
Finally, we were seated. They gave us a VIP room with our own tv and air conditioned room, pretty cool eh? I guess I can comment they are very polite as they kept apologizing for the wait.
We ordered the "big night out" 4 course meal. You can order in singles or couples. (the pictures below are couple portions)
The first course was the cheese fondue. They provide cut bread, mixed raw vegetables and green apples for your to dip with cheese. If you ask me, green apple tastes really weird with cheese, no lies. I just ate the apples alone as a side. But one thing is you can ask for refills, we got more bread.
This pot is the spinach artichoke cheese fondue.
I loved this. Well, i always loved spinch artchoke cheese dip (the one at Crabby Joe's is really good) But I highly recommend getting this flavour.
The other is the cheddar cheese fondue.
You can actually taste the beer mixed with the cheese.
The second course was salad. I actually forgot to take a picture of it...but I ordered the spinach mushroom salad. In the menu it says it is served with baby portobello mushrooms, but I didn't taste any.
The third course was of course the entree, the meat platter. We chose the Fondue Feast.
To the top left is chicken, the right is sirloin, the middle is beef, bottom left is pork, and bottom right is obviously shrimp. The meats were heavily marinated and didn't require more taste, although they did give you a lot of sauces to dip in. Funny thing is the sauces were mostly asian sauces (sweet and sour, terriyaki, curry, etc.) The quality of the meat was really good though. The sirloin was tender, but one thing I found kinda odd was it was marinated in terriyaki sauce. Surprisingly I think I liked the shrimp the most. I personally didn't enjoy the herbs on the chicken.
To cook the meat you get to choose which type of cooking style you want the broth to be. It's like western style hot pot.
The pot closest to you is "Coq au Vin" (add $7), which featured mushrooms, wine and a bunch of herbs and spices. At first I didnt quite like the taste of the wine mix, but after a few bites I think I got used to it. The other pot is "Mojo" (add $7), garlic and citron flavoured. Our server recommended this flavour and I actually did like this flavour more.
And lastly, the fourth course was chocolate fondue.
This pot is the "cookies n' cream marshmallow dream". Sounds mouth watering already. Yes, the big blob of white thing in the middle of the pot is the marshmallow; oreo bits were added too!
As for the other pot, my friends ordered "the original", which was milk chocolate with peanut butter. But I didn't try it since I'm allergic, but I'm sure peanut butter fans would love this fondue.
As for the dippers, there were pineapple, strawberries, bananas..The black cylinder in the middle is marshmallow wrapped in oreo bits (really delicious). To the bottom left is cheesecake, brownies, and pound cakes.
Food: Pretty good
Service: Very Good. One thing I really liked is they talk you through the process of how they are blending or making the fondue in front of you.
Price: It ended up being around $55 per person including tip, pretty decent for a 4 course meal.
Atmosphere: We were seated in the VIP room so...the atmosphere was great? It was a bit noisy outside though. One thing I do mention is, it smells pretty bad inside. You would think chocolate fondue would smell awesome, but no. There's some weird smell. I think it has to do with the broth, when you get into that meal a weird smell just comes out. If you walk around in the restaurant I'm sure you wouldnt enjoy the smell. So if you go, your clothes are bound to smell horrible after.
Overall: I enjoyed it. I actually never had cheese fondue before and it was my first time. If you ask me, I was only looking forward to try the cheese and chocolate fondue. I didn't really enjoy the entree - not because of the smelly broth, but I just didnt find it that tastey or amazing and the marinated meat just didnt fit my taste buds. If I were to pay another visit, which I probably will, I would just go for the cheese fondue or chocolate fondue rather than going through the 4 course meal again. Our dinner actually took us 3 hours, not including the 1 hour wait.
The Melting Pot
125-135 York Blvd, Richmond Hill
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