The menu runs the gamut, from pistachio-crusted tuna and grilled octopus to a pan-seared duck or braised veal shank.

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In that time, a teacher can fix a shank or get somebody to slice the ball less, and everyone leaves the lesson happy.

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An artist was what he had really wanted to be, and he had simply transferred his painterly feelings to stroking the rich glaze on a shank of lamb, or dashing his signature in a passion-fruit coulis.

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You come here for Gorgonzola-crusted, bone-in buffalo rib eye or red-wine-braised Montana lamb shank.

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It looks like pure fat, but it isn't, really, just mainly, and when served in the split shank bone (as at places like the Knickerbocker or Prune in New York City), one portion will keep you in a state of sensory-specific satiety for a week.

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