It tasted fine but was not the dish expected.
It had everything lovers of this dish expect: a balanced dressing and housemade, buttery croutons.
A starter of seafood ravioli, pricey at $14, had tiny bits of shrimp and other seafood, but was overshadowed by large, loose layers (not pouches) of saffron-spinach pasta floating in a tomato-infused broth, more just pasta than the stuffed seafood pasta dish we expected.
No matter, those who order the dishes they expect to be good at a fish house will not be disappointed.
The dishes you expect, like crispy pork, salty plantains and infinite variations on the beans-and-rice theme, are as good as they get.
Dishes to expect include duck foie gras with fig marmalade, and cod cooked Dieppe-style, with cream, white wine, mussels, shrimps and mushrooms (32 Rue de Ste Adresse; closed Sun eve, Mon & Wed noon; three-course lunch menu £22).
If you bring a dish you expect to be popular, email yourself the recipe and forward it on to anyone that asks you for it.
The air space in the closed Petri-dishes can be expected to be motionless.
While major contributions of stem cells to drug discovery, safety and efficacy testing, as well as modelling 'diseases in a dish' are also expected, it is the in vivo use of stem cells that has captured the general public's attention.
The Disney-Dish deal is expected to serve as a template for other entertainment companies haggling over new carriage agreements with pay-TV distributors.
