The varied menu includes the addictive triple cooked patatas bravas with garlic aioli, while the roasted home-salted cod filet is balanced by a warm salad of garlic, lemon and chickpeas.

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These are the materials used to form dishes such as the warm salad of prawn tails, fish stew or pasta with sea urchin roe served in the restaurants of Villasimius.

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Best bets: a warm spinach salad with pancetta and portobello mushrooms, and a grilled chicken paillard with grilled seasonal vegetables. l Les Routiers -- 568 Amsterdam Ave.

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Garces served fried pork and warm hominy salad with peas, carrots and cilantro, which, according to several people I spoke with, was one of the better received dishes of the evening.

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McClain and Izard both contributed to the menu which included a seasonal salad of warm pears, a seared scallop with XO sauce, lamb loin, and a cheese course amongst many more delicious items.

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