Sentence examples for fanciful dishes from inspiring English sources

The plateau de fruits de mer seems to be the lineal descendant of those fanciful dishes of the past.

When he was introduced to the Hispanic caucus, he joked about opening a kosher-Latino restaurant with such fanciful dishes as "gefilta fish serviche".

The BBC culinary star Nigella Lawson believes in no-stress simplicity, involving her friends and family in setting the table for a simple yet festive meal rather than overwhelming her guests with hors d'oeuvres, fanciful dishes and elaborately 'gourmet' holiday recipes.

Wares in the Bérain style, for which Moustiers is probably most famous, are delicate and fanciful; large dishes, for example, are decorated with a spidery net, made up of arabesques, architectural motifs, birds, vases of flowers, and the like, which serves as a frame for a classical scene.

But read through this restaurant's menu, on which one fanciful mussel dish leads to another and then another after that, and you realize that its name is actually a truncated manifesto, a decree of intent, which is to show off mussels as they've never been shown off before.

The dishes have fanciful names like Pear Up, Lemon Lightning and Coffee Bliss that reveal almost nothing, and the waiters are hard pressed to provide further explanantion.

A few dishes were merely fanciful; most were fanciful and delicious.

It gives the dish, to my fanciful mind, the perfumed whiff of a lavish Mughal banquet.

What was strongest about the best dishes wasn't some fanciful conceit or adornment, but rather the quality and preparation of the centerpiece ingredient.

There are as many servers as diners; the delivery of each dish is its own fanciful ballet.

Scratch off the dishes that look the most aggressively fanciful.