Mini Golf and Melting Pot

Phil was in Kentucky over the weekend for work, so I spent the afternoon on Sunday hanging out with some highschool friends. We decided to head out to Fairway Golf for some mini golf. The place has gotten a little run down since its heyday, but we still had a fun time.

Halfway through the 18-hole course Justin and Jamie stopped for a little rest.

After golf we headed out to Somerville for dinner at the Melting Pot. It's a little pricey as restaurants go, but the food is good.

We had to park in a lot behind the restaurant, so we decided to sneak around to the front of the restaurant through a small alley. The alley actually started out really wide, but then got more and more narrow as you got farther in, so we ended up having to squeeze through this small opening to get to the restaurant entrance. Luckily nobody got stuck on the way out. Although it was slightly more difficult to get back to the car in the dark without smacking into the brick walls...


Here we are at the restaurant.

With the menu at the Melting Pot they give you a choice of a couple set courses or you can order a la carte. We decided to go with one of their set courses to cut down on the decision making. Melting Pot is a fondue place, so their set courses consist of a cheese fondue, salad, a broth-based fondue and then a chocolate fondue for dessert.

First we started out with a three cheese fondue...or was it four cheese?...either way it was a lot of cheese. They give you bread, vegetables and apples to dip. Why apples? I have no idea...

Next we moved onto the "Fondue Feast", which was our broth-based fondue that came with beef, pork, chicken, shrimp and some mushroom ravioli type things. Justin was very excited for the main course.

Here is Jamie pretending to eat the raw meat...

It didn't look like a lot of food, but we were all pretty stuffed by the time we got through all the meat. This was Justin's "I'm so full it hurts, so don't make me laugh" face.

Finally it was on to the chocolate fondue. We went with "The Original", which is basically chocolate fondue with peanut butter swirled in. Although this picture looks more like chocolate fondue with a glob of peanut butter tossed in the middle.

And with the chocolate fondue you get lots of "fixin's" - rice crispy squares, banana and strawberry slices, chocolate covered marshmallows, cheesecake and brownie squares. Yum!