J. Alexander's - Baton Rouge

Melting Pot is a wonderful place for a group or dateThe food is surprisingly filling.

I've come here about 2-3 times a year over the last few years and it really seems like the restaurant is declining.

When I was younger, I looked forward to eating at the melting potI loved the seemingly endless cheese and chocolate and the long dinners with family.

Server was incredibly rude. I never asked if we need to refill drinks. I never asked if the food was okay. Ordered a medium-rare prime rib. It came out medium good. My husband's middle rib was much rarer than mine. Just an overall bad experience.

The food was very good. However, the service was not. It took a while for someone to greet us at the host station. Once greeted, we sat and then it took over 5 minutes for our waitress to contact us. We discussed getting up and going somewhere else when she got to our table. We ordered drinks and the wait began. We could see our drinks at the bar but again it took forever for the waitress to bring them to us. Overall, the only salvation for us that night was the food. It was very good. I had the prime rib and it was tops. I will try this again but was disappointed with the overall result mainly because of the lack of service.