The chopped salad offered a variety of lettuces, tomatoes, salami, mozzarella and olives in a choice of balsamic vinaigrette or creamy Italian herb dressing.

Appetizers include smoked haddock chowder; entrees include roast sea bass with fennel confit, mashed potatoes and warm herb dressing.

Salad tre gusti topped nicely shredded leaves of spinach and radicchio with an herb dressing and delightful puffs of roasted goat cheese.

The salad Milan, a tricolor topped with marinated mozzarella and peppers, was tossed in a creamy herb dressing.

It began with a dull terrine of leeks with an herb dressing and was followed by, well, let's not get into it.

The second course was brought out: a cold salad of river trout with a sweet herb dressing.

The guests dined, after the soup, on stuffed breast of chicken with fresh herb dressing.

Julienne strips of vegetables, olives and marinated artichoke hearts combine with a zesty herb dressing to put this salad right up there with the spinach.

At Savoy, Peter Hoffman serves tomato and purslane salad with a strong herb dressing.

Grilled red snapper, a special, was nicely cooked but bland; ditto the cold poached salmon at lunch, a thick pink slab that cried out for a light herb dressing.