Also notable were seasoned olives, little cheese crisps, inventive yet perfectly balanced salads, some luscious roasted tomatoes, unusual pastas, honest roasts and casseroles and fruit tarts, especially figs singed with caramel.

N Map In this calm retreat, vegetables reign supreme and the chef does wonderful things with them, such as hummus, Indian-style bhajis and various inventive salads.

RSVP highlights cedar-plank roasted salmon, wafer-thin grilled pizzas, inventive salads and other dishes in the New American mode.

Rounding out the menu are paninis, inventive salads, an extraordinary antipasto and homemade gelato.

Muffaletta ("Pride of New Orleans") - thickly layered and voluptuous - is among the wraps, sandwiches and inventive salads that keep the lunch counter buzzing.

His menu embraces everything from traditional American-style roasts to game, pastas and inventive salads.

There are three inventive salads on the menu.

Or the elegant, 136-year-old Miremont tea room (1 bis Place Clemenceau, 0033 559 24 01 38), known for its Basque tarts; inventive salads from £10.

The charcoal pike fillet is a particular pleasure, as are the inventive salads.

What are lighter and fresher are some of the inventive salads like zucchini and squash in lemon-cilantro dressing or the Peking chicken salad in a dressing that's fairly stingy on the oil.