ACC's Fine Dining

Austin Community Col-lege's Culinary Arts, Hospitality Management, and Meeting and Event Planning programs offer a fine-dining experience called Bistro 3158 at Eastview Cam-pus for nine weeks. The dinners are cooked by the second-year Culinary Arts students who are enrolled in International Cuisine, the last course needed for gradu-ation.

The dinners feature menus designed to emulate the cuisine of Trans-Atlantic cruise ships. The menus include food from France, India, China, Sweden, Germany, and various other international locations.

The dinners run on Thurs-days starting at 6 p.m. until Dec. 6. Patrons may choose to sit in first class (eight courses for $28), second class (six courses for $20), or third class (four courses for $14). The aim of the dishes in the first class is traditional and au-thentic. The second course dishes are likened to the creative food in a fancy international hotel. The courses in third class are remi-niscent of home-style food in the particular region.

"Students prepare the most incredible dishes that are so au-thentic to the regions they study," said Virginia Lawrence, professor of hospitality management. "The quality of the food only tips the iceberg of the real talents of what is behind it, the students them-selves."