The color of plain old golden bantam is fresh, especially with the crisp red rounds of radish and the green of the scallions and the dill.

The beef is flavored with lemongrass, chili and shrimp paste and is eaten on crisp rounds of carrot and cucumber.

Eating an evening time bhelpuri (crisp fried thin rounds of dough mixed with puffed rice, lentils, l.

Grilled striped bass came on a truffled bed of celery root puree topped with a big, crisp round of fried celery root.

Two winning à la carte potato dishes were the lyonnaise, crisp rounds sautéed with onions, and the first-class creamy mashed Yukon golds.

The yellow-tinged grain strewn with peas and pimento is no rival for the crisp rounds of Spanish potatoes.

After the dance, we filed in for a spicy, delicious Nepali buffet of rice, dal, chicken curry, various vegetables, poppadams (crisp cracker-like rounds made from a legume dough) and a sweet corn pudding.

Second best is an unusual pineapple tart made by topping a crisp round of crust with a mound of cream cheese, garnished with paper-thin slices of fresh, sweet-tart pineapple.

Mr. Jeanney is supported by two able busboys who keep water glasses full, promptly replace used silverware and deliver warm, chewy rolls and free openers like tomato-garlic mousse and crisp rounds of toast.

As in many of the best new Mexican restaurants, the tostada, a crisp round of tortilla, is the vehicle of invention.