The cooking, done mostly by David, is largely Western, emphasizing fish, vegetables and chicken, with a Southeast Asian twist.
These restaurants, like many of Europe's best, have cut way back on beef, pork, lamb and veal, emphasizing fish, rabbit, wild game, goat and lots of poultry.
And in 1922 historian Samuel Eliot Morison, emphasizing fishing's vital role in the colonial economy, wrote that "Puritan Massachusetts derived her ideals from a sacred book; her wealth and power from the sacred cod".
The scarcity of bones or teeth of domesticated cattle suggests a subsistence economy emphasizing fishing in shallow waters and hunting of a range of savanna vertebrates.
Ryan Chadwick, the managing partner, said the menu emphasizes fish, including red snapper and lionfish.
The convergence of three factors, he says, changed their minds: the food pyramid, which emphasized fish; the rise of the Japanese car; and "Shogun".
At night the menu emphasizes fish, but in the daytime there are a great many nonfish entrees, and most are deliciously simple and very reasonably priced.
Although these frequencies emphasize fish finding, shapes are indefinite in the sonar images.
However, recent messages in the media that emphasize fish benefits have created confusion about the need for caution (Hobson 2006).
Ms. Levine also has a Sarabeth's in the works in Key West, Fla. BLT Fish, 21 West 17th Street, has opened its casually elegant upstairs dining room, which has a menu emphasizing whole fish: (212 691-8888.
With 52 seats on two industrial-chic floors, Yardbird has been so crazily jammed since its opening in 2011 that it has spawned a sequel, Ronin, a quieter, more intimate slip of a restaurant that echoes Yardbird's celebration of sake and Japanese whiskeys but pivots from feather to fin, emphasizing raw fish.
