Advocate hammers the Melting Pot

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Dinner for three adults was $175


Holy...shite..

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That's only less than $60 a person. I think their 4 course meal is around $40ish. That said, I have not gone into the one in NOLA (before it closed) in 10 years. I also hate any place where they make you work to cook your meal.

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“Dining at The Melting Pot feels like a throwback to a time when Baton Rouge didn’t have as bustling of a restaurant and craft cocktail scene as it does today.

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Yet, they still choose to give space in their paper review this chain that everyone already knows pretty much exactly what it is.

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but at the melting pot ? I've never been, but those pics make me think I would leave hungry after paying $175...

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Don't disagree. Not where I would throw my money at.

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Yet, they still choose to give space in their paper review this chain that everyone already knows pretty much exactly what it is.

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With a review every week, that means they review 250 restaurants in a 5 year span. BR just doesn't have enough places to feature a new restaurant review each week.

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With a review every week, that means they review 250 restaurants in a 5 year span. BR just doesn't have enough places to feature a new restaurant review each week.

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Sure, BR has plenty of places to review. Throw in the adjacent parishes, and consider non-chain, non-white tablecloth restaurants, and the Advocate could easily hit this mark. It is indeed a waste of space to tell people what they already know. Why not cover the countless independently run small restaurants with no marketing budgets? For every decent Ian McNulty food story running in the New Orleans version of the Advocate, there are probably 2 lame ones running in the BR version.

Why won't anyone take up the independent/ethnic/out-of-the-way mom n pop restaurant beat? The last person to write thoughtfully & interestingly about that niche was Sara Roahen when she reviewed for Gambit.

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I would refuse to seat this oinker, Christina Stephens, who looks like she eats with her fingers.

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That may or may not be true.

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That may or may not be true.

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based on the twitter pics, its more like mini shovels

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I mean I'm glad the useless food reviewers of The Advocate saw through the sham that is the Melting Pot, but why even waste time reviewing this place?

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Justify the expense report ?

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The fact that people pay high prices to gather around and dunk apples, oranges, bananas, etc in communal pots of melted chocolate is beyond absurd.

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Fondue is freaking great. Its a traditional food in the Alps.

I have only eaten at the Melting Pot 2-4 times, and not in awhile. But they do a lot of specials and coupons, so every time that I've paid we've always done some sort of special. The specials I've done were like a dinner and dessert for $60. Which is plenty of food for 2-3.

Its never cheap, but I'm not sure how 3 people spent $175 unless they drank a shite ton of martini's and ordered the expensive options of food.

Its always been quite a bit of food for me? Maybe its changed? The last time I went like 2 years ago I think we had 5 people and ordered 4 pots of food, 2 dinners and 2 desserts, and it was a ton of food for 5.

I'm not sticking up for it, it is what it is. Its not hard to make, but it is a lot of prep work kinda like sushi. Its not the worst thing to pay for is all I'm saying.

ETA: We make it at home occasional with our kids. They love it. Dip some ham, apple, decent bread, etc. into the cheese. Mom and dad enjoy with wine or beer. Something different and fun as a family.