My spouse and I dined at Café Amarcord for dinner on a Friday evening in late September 2015. Café Amarcord is open Tuesdays through Sundays for lunch and dinner (closed Mondays). The Café accepts reservations via telephone and using the Open Table system. Parking is available on the street.
Café Amarcord is
located on the corner of Main Street and Brett Street in Downtown Beacon in a
charmingly restored house. The front room contains the bar as well as a few
tables, and the back room contains only tables for a more quiet dining space.
The front window of the restaurant can be opened to the street in nice weather,
and two tiny tables outside on the sidewalk allow true al fresco dining.
We ordered the
beet and goat cheese gateau (layered beets and cheese sprinkled with walnuts
and pomegranate sauce) and the egg and shrimp carpaccio (served over shoestring
potatoes) as appetizers (priced at $12 and $14, respectively), followed by the
short rib pappardelle ($22) and the veal chop. The veal chop was a special that
evening, and priced at $34, was the largest and most delicious chop that we had
ever seen; in fact, the price seemed a bit low for such an enormous piece of
meat! Regrettably, we were too full to order dessert. Service was extremely professional
from everyone that we met, which was a pleasant surprise in this sleepy little
river town. We took longer than expected to eat our appetizers, and when the
server emerged from the kitchen with our entrees, she noticed from across the
room that we were not yet ready for them. So she took the dishes back to the
kitchen for a few minutes, an act that we greatly appreciated. (At other
restaurants, so often servers just stand next to our table, tapping their foot,
holding the next course while we are still eating the previous course and
expecting us to make room for the extra plates on the table, or give up our
only partially eaten appetizers.) It is evident that the restaurant has trained
the staff at this establishment properly and that they take their jobs
seriously.
We thoroughly
enjoyed our meal at Café Amarcord – fine dining in the Hudson Valley!
