Dinner platters, $18 to $26; sushi, $3.75 to $11. MasterCard, Visa and American Express accepted.
RECOMMENDED DISHES -- Moriawase and kaiseki dinner platters, vegetarian spring rolls, beef gyoza, seaweed salad, agedashi, nine spice snapper, green tea seared tuna, ebibaba roll, ginger tuna tataki, dancing samurai roll, dragon roll, blue sky roll, Kubla Khan roll, gobo roll, squid with pickled plum and shiso, black marlin sashimi.
Increasing numbers of diners are coming from the strip to Hash House a Go Go, a 200-seat restaurant at 6800 West Sahara Avenue that offers canal-boat-size plates of hammered pork tenderloin and burgers the size of dinner platters.
"Waiters charge frantically from side to side, as plates smash and live birds splutter skywards from beneath the dinner platters, confusion that increases its speed and intensity until it reaches a crescendo of pandemonium" – at which point a cheesemonger steps forward and explains that he's the set designer; he is duly – and rightly – applauded to the rafters.
Not all of these products and services have been successful; in 1992, Burger King introduced limited table service featuring special dinner platters, but this concept failed to generate interest and was discontinued.
Items such as the Texas Double Whopper and various sandwiches made with mushrooms and Swiss cheese have been rotated in and out of its menu for several years, while products such as its 1993 Meatloaf Specialty Sandwich offering and accompanying limited table service, along with special dinner platters, failed to generate interest and were discontinued.
When I ate at Miya again we ordered the special "kaiseki dinner platter," a multicourse prix fixe dinner for $45.75 (by reservation only) among other dishes.
The Victorian-tinged wedding dress Ms. Ishioka designed with a scrolled lace neckline the size of a dinner platter, worn by Sadie Frost in "Bram Stoker's 'Dracula' " (for which Ms. Ishioka won an Oscar in 1992), may be one of fashion's most overworked references, but her collaborations with the director Tarsem Singh, beginning with "The Cell" in 2000, have been equally awe-inspiring.
Know how your favorite Lebanese joint can give you a pound of "saffron" rice as a part of a $10.95 dinner platter?
Olia Hercules, oliahercules.com Another cheese and chilli combo, these moreish bitesize parcels make an excellent pre-dinner platter.
Often, vague allusions to "dinner" or "platters" or "drinks" are enough for the writer, who knows the imaginations of their readers will fill in the blanks.
