Spoon some of this mixture onto each of the toasted bread rounds and sprinkle each with a little of the cheese.

Proud peasant eggplant caviar spread on French bread rounds and delicate marinated mushrooms sparked with snipped dill are tantalizing tastebud teasers.

One brought an appetizer of French bread rounds topped with chutney, Cheddar cheese and bacon; Kurt Reichelt contributed a smoked silver salmon he had caught in Alaska.

The 76th Street market - cheese chunks and their hummus on bread rounds.

Actually, the meal began with an amuse bouche: spicy, freshly made caponata with grilled, garlicky bread rounds.

At another meal, the bread rounds disappeared and some calamari made the scene, along with a sprinkling of pine nuts and Parmesan cheese.

Spread the blue cheese on the toasted bread rounds, and top with the pimento and scallions.

Antipasti include crostini toscani, sliced bread rounds topped with a chicken liver-based pâté, and sliced meats (mainly prosciutto and salame, often served with melon when in season).

You may have to ask twice for a basket of bread, small white rounds, buttered, toasted and pressed like dress shirts on an oversize sandwich grill.

Stuffed baguettes or bread rounds come with chips.