Update

Hey everyone,

Just wanted to let you all know we haven't forgotten about you. Currently life has taken over a bit and we've been just a tad too busy to dine out much lately. We will have some great new reviews for you very soon, so hang in there! As always, thanks for reading.

The Melting Pot and My Birthday

This is not a review. I want to talk about my birthday. It was yesterday, September 29th and I turned 20something years old. We started planning a dinner about a week and a half ago and invited some awesome friends and I insisted we do Fondue.

See, my first Fondue experience was...well it sucked. I drove two hours to see a guy I didn't like very much then I had to pretend I liked him and it was painful, then we went to the Fondue place and he informed me I had to pay and I said "I'm broke" and he said "Oh well" and then ordered $90 worth of food. So...I didn't get to eat for the rest of that week. Not knowing about my Crohn's I also had to suffer the worst stomach ache of all time on the two hour drive back to my apartment.

So, I expressed to my loving husband that I want to have a fun Fondue time. Sharp sticks, molten cheese, chocolate covered everything, I mean, how could that NOT be awesome?

So we made reservations for up to 14 people (then like, 8 people couldn't come so we ended up with a tidy party of 6) at The Melting Pot in Towson.

This place is gorgeous and immaculate. Our waitress was SO AMAZING. She was informative, she told us about everything, explained it all so well and kept us blissfully happy. We had two kinds of cheese on our table the Wisconsin flavor and the French flavor and both were delicious. We got two kinds of cooking broths, Coq au Vin and Mojo and those were delicious and we had two kinds of chocolate Turtle and S'More and THOSE were delicious.

When we arrived there were balloons on the table and a little gift and card signed by the staff. It was beautiful.

I was thrilled to pieces with the whole event and if I were rating this place It would get well over 5 noms.

I do recommend that you, my lovely readers, go here for special events. They go above and beyond making everything perfect for you.

Gorgeous.

Field House

Another tavern another review. After a long day of work and house-hunting we ended up at the Field House armed with a restaurant.com certificate. Since it was a Monday night, the place wasn't busy whatsoever. We ordered cokes and began looking over the menu.

The directions weren't very clear on the certificate so I'll tell you what we learned over about a half hour of menu-staring: You must spend $50 OR purchase two entrees and the cheapest entree is $18 so you're probably better off just accumulating a table full of crap.

Some apps are half off. Some are not. The ones that are, aren't very good. (Monday night happy hour special)

Burgers are half off and delicious. (Monday night happy hour special)

We ended up ordering the crab cake platter for moi, and Dave got the Field House Burger with swiss and bacon on it. Then we ordered mozz sticks, texas corn dogs, and blackberry bbq wings.

Here's a rundown of how everything tasted:

Dave's burger was amazingly good. His fries were also delicious.

The mozz sticks were chewy old and gross

Texas corn dogs were greasy, but good. I'm not sure where the "corn" part of the dog came in since they were just crispy deepfried, similar to a piece of fried fish, but the dipping sauce was mostly horseradish so if you like that kind of thing go for it.

The blackberry wings were interesting and perfect. The sauce was tangy and sweet, wings meaty and juicy.

Crabcake was mostly crab, just the way you want it. It was properly cooked, tasted great and was filling as hell. However, I hate sweet potatoes. I thought I would like deep fried sweet potatoes (it came with sweet potato fries and rather than sub out I decided to give them a shot), but no, I still hate sweet potatoes. Vile, disgusting dirt food. Blech. However, if you LIKE sweet potatoes, you will LOVE these fries. They were perfectly fried and sprinkled with cinnamon.

Now that we got the pesky food part out of the way, let's talk about service.

It was our waitress's first night on the job and apparently she had the entire restaurant to take care of. Where the rest of the waitresses were, we had no idea. We only saw one other girl, when she brought out Dave's burger immediately after we got our apps and then he scolded her and she took the burger back. So, now on her first day she had like, 6 tables of people so her attention was divided which explains why we were there for an hour and a half. We were indecisive and took a long time to order. We had like, a thousand questions about the happy hour specials, and the certificate and the food, and she was helpful and informative the whole time. She was incredibly nice and did a great job.

Manager of Field House: never put new girl on the floor by herself. It causes customers to wait 20 minutes to get refills, put in orders and get ketchup (which I'm still waiting for by the way)

The most hilarious part of the evening was when she asked Dave if he wanted another Coke and he said "Yes" and then she asked me if I needed anything and I said "Can I get a lemon?" and she said "sure" and then came back with a coke with a lemon wedge stuck to it. I just stared it, then took the lemon wedge off and squeezed it onto my crab cakes.

Overall, we give you 3 noms.