In season she does an aristocratic lobster and asparagus salad with curry oil.

Skip the standard Caesar salad with its commercial croutons, and order instead the lively fresh asparagus salad with red and yellow peppers.

Even the green asparagus salad with gravlax and caviar-topped quail eggs is not very good.

Two also-rans were red snapper ceviche, which tasted a bit strong, and a roasted asparagus salad.

Come on-peanut butter sandwiches with fresh strawberries and tomatoes and a green pea and asparagus salad.

The asparagus salad was equally simple and equally good, the main ingredient bolstered by grilled fennel and red and yellow beets.

Appetizers include shucked Kumamoto oysters mignonette, and white and green asparagus salad with truffle vinaigrette.

Appetizers include ginger-spiced tomato soup, Mediterranean spiced crab cakes, and smoked duck and asparagus salad.

The asparagus salad, more greens than asparagus, is not a big hit either.

Skip the orecchiette with roasted corn, the mushroom barley soup and the asparagus salad, but not much else.