Some of the featured appetizers are scallop salad, pasta with smoked chicken breast and sun-dried tomato and shrimp and rabbit salad with red cabbage and zucchini.

Jamaican-jerk-spiced scallop salad, with slices of avocado and mango, jalapeños and greens, worked in much the same way the pork loin did.

We also liked the seared scallop salad with spinach, mushrooms, grape tomatoes and two large scallops presented atop a potato pancake.

Recommended dishes: Black bean soup, vichyssoise, smoked salmon with corn and leek pancake, grilled scallop salad, sauteed calf's liver, pan-fried chicken, grilled sirloin steak, mixed grill, hamburger, cheesecake.

Recommended dishes: Fruits de mer plate, crayfish soup, grilled scallop salad, mouclade (a mussel dish), red snapper with red pepper cream sauce, Dover sole meuniere, bourride, prune clafoutis, strawberry tart.

One of the house specialties is called hot scallop salad, a daunting melange of seared scallops, Romaine lettuce, bacon, green onions and Parmesan.

We settled on scallop salad instead of chilled pepper soup because it seemed easier to collect 65 salad plates and forks than 65 soup bowls and spoons.

He makes a fabulously bright scallop salad, with Maine bivalves seared just so, with a lemony-orange dressing.

This year's cooking, "a retrospective of the 80's," involves scallop salad and grilled boneless quail.

This Oriental scallop salad might as easily have been called Caribbean salad.