Ben's 18th birthday dinner

We had Ben's birthday dinner the Monday before his birthday because he was doing scholar bowl after school on his birthday.  He wanted to go to the Melting Pot for his birthday.  We had never been before.  It was pretty expensive but definitely worth it because it's more of an event than a dinner!!!!!

We decided to do the four course dinner, which includes a cheese fondue, salad, entree and chocolate dessert.  Because we had a larger party, we got to choose two of each dip.  The cheese fondue was fabulous, I'd have been happy just with that.  Surprisingly, the best combination was with the apple!!!

Ben and Arline

Ben and Julie

After the salad, we had entrees.  Each person can choose 3 or 4 meats to go with the cooking method.  We had a basic vegetable broth and this lovely coq au vin broth.  Everyone got different meats (or vegetables) to go with it.

Maggie eating her chicken

Ben got a birthday cake!!!!!

I'd say the chocolate course was the best, but we were all pretty full by that time!!!  We got a dark chocolate salted caramel and the kids wanted S'mores

Lots of goodies to dip in the chocolate!!!!