Do you fondue, or are you interested in trying a delicious new way to eat cheese, assorted meats, veggies and chocolate?

Do you like to go out with groups of friends on a week night (e.g. when your partner can stay home with the kids or a babysitter is easier to book)?

Then head to The Melting Pot nearest you for their new  Girls Night Out special four-course meal package, available for groups of 8 or more on Sundays through Thursdays for only $30 per person. (Of course, I’m sure dudes could enjoy it too, just be man enough to ask.)

The DC area locations offering the Girls Night Out Menu are: Midtown Washington DC, Arlington VA, Gaithersburg MD (this is where I went – it was freaking fabulous! – and close to my pad in Silver Spring) and Reston VA.  Other Melting Pot locations in the area that have other super specials are Columbia MD, Annapolis MD, Towson MD and Fredericksburg VA.

If you live elsewhere in North America, find your own nearby Melting Pot on this nifty map.

My last fondue experience was in the early ’90s in Berkeley. I would deviate from my usual close-lipped details of my sordid past and explain to you why I don’t remember very much about the evening, but since the establishment is surprisingly still open for underage college students’ enjoyment, I’ll refrain. My closest friends from college had similar experiences there, as well as close friends I’ve since made who also went to Cal.

Let’s just say that a Washington DC Bloggers Girls Night Out at The Melting Pot was everything my first fondue experience was not  – namely, it was delicious, decadent and I only had to taste it once.

We were treated to the new Girls Night Out Menu and enjoyed:

• Three cheese fondue dips for fresh bread and veggies: Feng Shui, Spinach Artichoke, and Fiesta cheese fondues

• A Melting Pot House Salad with choice of peppercorn ranch dressing or house vinaigrette

• A Girls’ Night Out entrée plate which included teriyaki sirloin, marinated breast of chicken, white shrimp, and pasta to cook in broth fondue

• Four chocolate fondue dips for fresh fruit, pastries, marshmallows and treats: Disaronno Meltdown, Cookies ‘n Cream Marshmallow Dream, Ying & Yang (pictured at the top of this post) and Flaming Turtle chocolate fondues

The Girls’ Night Out four-course meal package is available for groups of 8 or more on Sundays through Thursdays for only $30 per person at The Melting Pot restaurants in Midtown Washington DC, Arlington VA, Gaithersburg MD and Reston VA.

With the kids’ sports and birthday parties and craziness on the weekend, I’m thinking this is the perfect way to get my book club together and reconnect with my MOMS Club buds.  Or to celebrate with a fellow mom before she gives birth and is out of commission for girls nights for a while.  Or even a bachelorette party … at least the first stop in the evening!

If you’d like to make a reservation for your own group, email Lauren of The Melting Pot and tell her that you heard about it on A Parent in Silver Spring and she’ll handle booking it for you.

Also, follow The Melting Pot on Twitter @MeltingpotDC, and fan you closest Melting Pot location on Facebook, to hear about more special discounts and promos for friends of THE CHEESE.
www.facebook.com/MeltingPotGaithersburg
www.facebook.com/MeltingPotWashingtonDC
www.facebook.com/MeltingPotArlingtonVA
www.facebook.com/MeltingPotReston

Disclosure: 18 other bloggers and I were treated to the menu above to help spread the word about this new dining option for groups. We were not required to write about the experience nor provide a positive review in exchange for the meal.  All opinions expressed in this post are 100% my own.

Photographs of chocolate, table and cheese grabbed from Thien-Kim of I’m Not the Nanny and of wine from Lolli of Better in Bulk.