Melt Shop

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Delicious comfort food taken to the next level! Friendly staff and service! Great vegetarian options too.

Ate here last night and loved it! I recommend the Buffalo Blue Cheese — sourdough grilled to perfection, Jack cheese, big tasty fried chicken and buffalo bleu cheese sauce — YUM! Had just alittle kick, very flavorful and good. Not healthy at all but sooo delicious! We also got the loaded tots which are quite rich but fun to have once in awhile. I’d love to go back and try their salads as it would be a light, fresh compliment to the sandwiches.

The Melt shop is one of the few New York chains that has made its way to Mall of America Culinary food court. The other being Shake Shack, which will be coming soon.
The Melt Shop now has two locations in Minnesota, the other being in Woodbury. They sell a few different sandwiches, but it seem their main focus is the Chicken. They also have grilled cheese, Maple Bacon and BLT if you’re not into the Chicken game. I got the fried chicken sandwich which was almost 9 dollars. With that price, I expected to get a larger sandwich, but it was filling nonetheless. The fried chicken melt comes with fried chicken, pepper jack, cole slaw on sourdough bread. The fried chicken was not as crispy and not as breaded as I would have liked, but it was okay. The cole slaw went well with the sandwich. The fried chicken itself also didn’t seem like it was freshly cooked. It was on the colder side. Overall, it was okay. not amazing, but not terrible.
The other thing I ordered was the loaded tots. It was pretty pricey. coming in at a little over 5 bucks. Loaded tots is basically tater tots smothered in cheese, jalapenos and bacon. It was decent. Like the sandwich, the tots itself was not hot. It felt like they were sitting out for a while and they smothered the cheese and bacon on it. It didn’t taste super freshly made.
Overall, the melt shop is a nice addition to Mall of America, but it’s not somewhere I would go back to, unless they fix their freshness issue. Part of it may be due to it’s recent opening and not having a lot of business. I wish they make the food fresh, even if it meant I had to wait.

I work at the mall, and about every week or two I get a craving… For grilled cheese and TOTS! There couldn’t be a better place to bring back your childhood memories of dipping grilled cheese in tomatoe bisque. It is awesome, and if you are at the mall I would highly recommend Melt Shop.
Everything is made to order, so it might take a little bit longer, but just know that you are getting a better product with higher quality ingredients then a lot of other joints in the food court.

I’ve been wanting to try Melt Shop since I heard we were getting one at MOA and I was pleasantly surprised. Although they’re still getting their service up to speed, it was very tasty.
Let me get this out of the way first, this place is greasy. Greasy in a good way though, I left here ready for a nap because it was so good I ate a little too much.
I ordered the Buffalo melt, which was like heaven on sour dough. It came with what was one of the most generous and tasty pieces of chicken I’ve ever had on a sandwich, pepper jack and blue cheese buffalo sauce that had just enough kick to it. My friend ordered the truffle melt and very much enjoyed it, I’m going to try that the next time I’m out there because it looked really good.
I ordered the loaded tots and my friend ordered the cheesy tots. While both were very good I actually preferred the cheesy tots because the loaded ones were a bit much and slightly more dry. Don’t get me wrong, the loaded tots were still good and I ate almost the whole thing.
The stand out star was the chocolate truffle shake. This tasted just like a Godiva chocolate truffle in liquid form, I highly recommend it!
I will definitely be coming back from some more amazing comfort food.

Just had their Grilled chicken sandwich on Sourdough and it was really good. Good quick place to grab a bit to eat in the Mall of America

I’m writing this review for my wife since we «divided-​n-​conquored» at the MOA «Culinary» food court.
So the sandwich was fine (standard grilled cheese. not what she ordered, more on that later) but the tots that came with were ice cold. So that requires a serious downgrade in stars.
My wife, after standing in a long line and watching the staff apologize profusely to someone who’d apparently waited forever for food, ordered the three cheese sandwich combo. While waiting, she looked at her receipt and saw that they’d rang up her order wrong. It was too late to change it and she didn’t want to wait in the long line again to fix it. More stars go away…
So, if they’re slow and you pay attention to your receipt BEFORE waking away, this place is worth it. Otherwise, steer clear and save the hassle (and cold food.)

Delicious food spot at the mall. Loved my loaded tots and BLT. Wish they had this place where I live because I just ate it and am already craving it again.