"Jeff's attitude was stay away from trendy ingredients and fancy preparations.
We prefer lobster simply steamed, and although we would ordinarily avoid fancy preparations here, the lobstermania sounded decent, and it was.
A new menu for upstairs dining is evolving as well; it includes many of the popular items served downstairs, and some fancier preparations.
I prefer the crisper crepe in a savoury context, and it is undeniably better suited to fancier preparations, where lightness and richness are desirable.
Dozens upon dozens of recipes are paraded through the columns of the Larousse Gastronomique, but the Wiltons menu mentions only two of the fancier preparations -- sole Colbert, in which the fish is split open before deep-frying and the cavity then filled with herb butter, and sole Walewska, which involves cheese, mushrooms and lobster.
The following steps are only suitable if you are also applying make-up as part of fancy costume preparation.
But Azzurri is a different restaurant, and while its style doesn't demand Mr. Rugueiro's skills and fancy cooking, the kitchen should offer diners in the Thornwood area something more than perfunctory preparations.
But I wouldn't turn up my nose at a humble lobster roll, either, nor at any number of fancier, saucy preparations.
When we talk about the best, we don't mean a fancy 12-hour preparation of a dinner that you'll finish in 20 under minutes.
As for other entrees, the many lamb dishes offer meat of good quality, competently spiced — just don't expect any elaborate preparation or fancy plating.
