Adam Sattley on Facebook 2 years ago
03/03/2020, 13:25 PM
For Denver Restaurant Week we tried Acorn. Acorn is located in a shared space called The Source in the RINO neighborhood. It is split into two sections, and this restaurant was in The Source #1. That space also housed a pizzeria, ice cream parlor, bakery, liquor store, bar, coffee shop, and hair salon. An upscale sushi restaurant and a brewery are supposedly coming soon. We believe there might be some residences in this building too, because we found a set of mailboxes and Amazon packages back near the restrooms. This space also differs from the food court style of Edgewater Public Market, because the restaurants are separately contained and Acorn required reservations. I didn't do my homework very well, and was surprised that the prix fixe Denver Restaurant Week option didn't offer any choices. Luckily one could order from their normal menu. I still opted to try the Restaurant Week menu and added the wine pairing. Course 1: Heirloom Blue Cornbread with surryano ham and red-eye butter. The cornbread was really savory, and paired well with the salty ham and coffee-infused butter. This was paired with a nice Santa Barbara chardonnay (Tyler). Course 2: Duck confit with green farro, field peas, baby leek and blood oranges. It was succulent and paired well with the Mendocino Ridge pinot noir (Drew). Course 3: Golden honey cake with cacao nibs, mandarin oranges, and honeycomb. The cake was light and not too sweet. The orange flavored vermouth dessert wine pairing was pretty disgusting! (Mommenpop) I could smell it several feet away, and it smelled like Mr. Bubble's Bubble Bath from the 80's. Bob thought it smelled like the inside of a Grandma's purse. I actually took two sips and could not finish it. Bob ordered the half chicken entree. It came over a bed of front range fungi, rainbow chard stems, bread and butter pickled radishes and something called RW roots. The chicken was extremely moist and Bob enjoyed it. He also ordered the chocolate cake offering. The chocolate cake was actually kind of dry. There were large dollops of hazelnut mousse, chopped up hazelnuts and another accoutrement. I preferred mine and he preferred his. ;) The ambiance is a young hispter/yuppy crowd. The music was very contemporary. This restaurant is more known for sharing plates even the larger entree size plates. Our table was wobbly when we got there, and Bob had to shim it with an extra napkin. For the upper echelon of a $45 Denver Restaurant Week option, I thought it fell a little short, but would still recommend for a more casual outing with friends.
