Last weekend I went back home to NJ. I’m originally from there, and my mom and brother are still there. I decided to take my ex-girlfriend Crystal to dinner at Acacia (Horrible website, they should hire Tri Megatech), which considers themselves progressive American cuisine. The restaurant is located in Lawrenceville, NJ, right across the street from Lawrenceville prep school, a top private school in the country.

Acacia considers themselves fine dining, with appetizer, dinner for two, and desert, the bill came out to be around $100 after tip. One thing to note is they are BYOB, which means no liquor license. If you want wine with your dinner, it’s your job to bring it yourself.

Appetizer

We started off with garlic roasted shrimp set on a creamy mascarpone polenta. I’ve never had mascarpone polenta before, but it was very good. We ate most of it before I realized that I forgot to take a picture!

Dinner

For dinner I had the grilled black angus filet mignon. It’s set on top of a smoked bacon potato and sweet potato tart. It’s topped off with onion rings.

Crystal had the chicken breast filled with truffled goat cheese. She thought it was very tasty, but it would have been better without so much breading.

Desert

This was another one that I forgot to take a picture of before eating some of it! The desert was excellent, we split the chocolate mousse dome on a triple chocolate brownie with a side of mint chocolate chip ice cream and chocolate covered strawberry:

Atmosphere

Acacia is a pretty small restaurant, that is a bit hidden. Here’s a couple pictures:

The After Party

After dinner we met up with a couple of friends at Top Dog in Cherry Hill, NJ for some drinking and dancing. Top Dog is a great place where you can just hang out and drink at the bar if you don’t feel like dancing, or pay $5 to go upstairs to the dance club.