The pounded chicken cutlet sits atop a pillbox of warm couscous and cooling green salad, all of which is sprinkled with diced tomatoes and onion strips.

There is a sushi station and a hot-and-cold buffet of dishes like Asian noodles with calamari, Israeli couscous salad, braised short ribs and Caesar salad.

A simple tomato salad followed by grilled or roasted fish served at room temperature with a cool salsa and a couscous salad no longer satisfies.

Other choices include mini crab cakes, sandwiches on sourdough bread, couscous salad, wontons with ginger sauce, sausage, broccoli rape and sun-dried tomato pasta, and chocolate-covered strawberries.

A couscous salad, with a delightful Middle Eastern touch of saffron, ginger, currants and dates - along with chopped vegetables - had been set aside to steep in its dressing overnight.

I combine cubed tuna steaks with a light and flavorful couscous salad brightened with onion, garlic and cumin, all tossed in a mildly spicy oil and vinegar dressing.

Wheat-grass juice, couscous salad, baby spinach leaves, yoghurts.

Merguez sausage with couscous salad sounded good but was deep sixed from the menu on two visits.

But a Mediterranean salad of grilled vegetables and Gorgonzola was non- descript, as was a couscous salad with lettuces and grilled shrimp.

From fresh side salads to filling couscous and pasta salads.