A week out, my experience at The Acorn is a little hazy, but I thought I’d try to get something posted up anyway…
After a rollicking good time at Wine on the River, my drinking companion and I cabbed it over to The Acorn for a 7:00 reservation for the Restaurant Week menu. My experience with The Acorn was tip top from beginning to end. Even making the reservation was a pleasure as the hostess chatted with me about Wine on the River and, apparently, made a note of it in the ledger. The dude calling to confirm the reservation on Saturday afternoon let me know how jealous he was that I was going to the downtown tasting.
My friend and I both enjoyed the opening dish of salad greens with a sweetly deviled egg and chunk of crunchy fried salty bacon. Almost as delicious was the trout with butternut squash. The meal ended with a gooey butter cake with some sort of jam-like topping. The cake was by far better than the bread pudding offered by The Yellow Porch for restaurant week. I may be a little biased though, as I’m starting to think that butter is my favorite food (not risotto as recently professed).
And I have to commend The Acorn for it’s excellent service. Our waitress, Candace, I think, was so kind and accomodating to a couple of drunk gals rolling in from Wine on the River. Unlike some diner’s experiences with Restaurant Week, we were treated like first-class patrons, not shoppers who were sort of “browsing” the menu at a restaurant we might not normally choose to afford.
