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Careme’s Restaurant to Open for Lunch for Fall Semester Sept. 4; Farm-to-Table Cuisine Featured

08/20/2018 | Media Contact: Erin Mercer | (609) 343-4923
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Careme’s, the student-run, gourmet restaurant at Atlantic Cape Community College’s Academy of Culinary Arts, will reopen for lunch on Tuesday, Sept. 4.

The restaurant will offer a two-course sandwich selection for $9.95, and a two-course entrée selection for $12.95.

For groups, the restaurant will offer a three-course and four-course menu featuring locally sourced ingredients, prepared and served with care and attention to detail. The luncheon three-course menu for groups is priced at $16.95 per person, and the four-course is $18.95 per person, plus tax and a service charge, which helps provide scholarships for academy students.

Careme’s, located at Atlantic Cape’s Mays Landing Campus, 5100 Black Horse Pike, offers a farm-to-table dining experience that’s unique in South Jersey. The restaurant is open noon-3 p.m., Monday-Friday, for the duration of fall semester. Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover are accepted. For reservations, call the restaurant and leave a message at 609-343-4940.

The restaurant is named after the first “celebrity chef” in culinary history, Marie-Antoine Careme. Careme’s command of culinary art was so famous in the early 19th century that he became known as “the chef of kings and the king of chefs.”

The Academy of Culinary Arts at Atlantic Cape Community College recently was ranked the No. 1 culinary school in New Jersey by Best Choice Schools.

The ACA has been training future chefs and food service professionals for more than 30 years. For more information about the academy, visit www.atlantic.edu/aca.