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| - I came here with my fiance and parents a couple of months ago, and we got sold on the tasting menu when we sat down. I'd probably give Acadia 4 stars if we had ordered a la carte. Overall the food was solid. While few dishes were outstandingly memorable, all were good. I particularly enjoyed the the quail and sweetbreads. The cocktails are worth trying too.
Now as to the tasting menu. I understand 'tasting menu' dinners to be something special. The tasting menu here is essentially smaller portions of almost everything on their menu, but there isn't anything you can't order on the menu. It comes as two 'sets', where each set contains roughly half the menu. It's not a bad way for 2 people to try the entire menu; assuming you're willing to share food.
With 4 people, each set gets duplicated. Assuming you're willing to share food, with 4 people you can almost order everything on the menu anyways for less than $70 a person that it costs for the tasting menu. It's really not worthwhile.
Now the really big complaints:
1. Like other fancy 'tasting menus' I've tried, the server asked about dietary restrictions. 3/4 of my family are lactose intolerant, the server understood this clearly. While they made an effort to remove the dairy on some of the mains, the two deserts were both cream heavy, and were served as is. Had we not gone for the tasting menu, we could have not ordered 3 $10 desserts that we wouldn't have eaten.
2. I'm not sure if they were trying to compensate for us not being able to have dessert, but the next party arrived at the door shortly after we got our dessert. This is the only time I've been hurried out the door in a tasting menu meal.
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