It is served atop slices of white bread with pickle chips.

I sampled a butter-tender steak in a rich wine and mushroom sauce laced with tarragon and served atop slices of sauteed eggplant.

Grilled portobello mushrooms atop slices of lightly charred eggplant were satisfying, as were roasted red peppers served warm under a mantel of garlic.

It was perched atop baby bok choy and slices of eggplant.

A traditional Japanese seaweed salad is rearranged and modified, with the seaweed poised atop thin slices of cucumber spread with caviar cream.

At first glance, the sprightly seafood salad looked a bit skimpy, but its garnish of smoked salmon atop slices of red onion filled out the plate.

A newcomer joined these old favorites: a wonderful pairing of crunchy string beans and succulent slices of artichoke bottoms atop paper-thin slices of Parmesan cheese.

Tomato bruschetta ($4, $8), chopped tomatoes, dressed in basil and fine olive oil, atop crisp slices of toast, are somewhat redundant when pizza is ordered, but tasty nonetheless.

Six giant grilled shrimp arrive atop slices of purple Peruvian potatoes.

As a result, crab meat is piled high atop crisp slices of sautéed Gulf fish at restaurants like Galatoire's.