Tuesday's menu included black beans and cheddar quesadillas served with salsa and roasted potatoes.

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For the Wiesenmaier family, sitting around a long, fold-down picnic table, drinking wine from plastic cups and preparing for a clambake of lobster tails and slow-roasted potatoes cooked by two chefs on an enormous outdoor grill, this pristine corner of the US eastern seaboard has tonight been transformed into America's most exclusive restaurant.

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Nowadays, I don't even ask, I just get a side order of grilled vegetables because, chances are, the potatoes are roasted in lard.

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Ms. Louis's elevated takes on comforting dishes, such as baked eggs with cream and brick-roasted chicken with shoestring potatoes, have earned her critical acclaim.

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Variations may be OK. Brussels sprouts that are roasted, not boiled, sweet potatoes mashed with apples or pears.

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Favorites: roasted stuffed chicken with garlic mashed potatoes and a wild-mushroom jus, and poached skate in a spring garlic broth with potato gnocchi and green asparagus.

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The city's causas (mashed yellow potatoes layered with fillings) are irresistible and the anticuchos, roasted beef-heart skewers, are as tender as filet.

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