Basic Korean fare — pork, beef, noodles — came with multiple side dishes for $10 to $12.
Another option is Mamacas (Persefonis 41; 30-210-346-4984; www.mamacas.gr), which offers traditional fare like beef grilled with tomato, parsley and onions, for around 40 euros.
Mr. Rucker, who was just named Rising Star Chef of the Year by the James Beard Foundation, serves French-influenced nose-to-tail fare, like beef cheek bourguignon ($22) and veal sweetbreads with bread pudding ($26), from a hyperactive open kitchen.
Get ready to make a lot of choices when it comes to ordering at Lady Camellia, which offers an array of classic menu items such as smoked salmon sandwiches and pastries as well as heavier fare like beef bourguignon pie.
If Mr. Ai is the area's star artist, then its social hub is the hip warehouse gallery Universal Studios (A-8 Caochangdi; 86-10-6432-2600; withunitsrsalstudios.org.cn) with its bohemian cafe and bar serving no-nonsense fare like beef noodle soup.
There will be a silent auction, music, Irish dancers, a buffet brunch including traditional St . Patricks Day fare — corned beef and cabbage— along with Champagne, door prizes and socializing.
That fare could include beef stew, he said.
When the old folks playing low-stakes poker at a retirement community in Florida order food, their dietary preferences run toward yummy high-cholesterol fare like corned beef sandwiches and cheesecake.
However, fussy food generally takes a back seat to simpler fare, like corned beef and cabbage, "cream of spud" soup, and "scampi Emerald Isle," making it appropriate for clients under indictment, they added.
Its details — $58,808 for "audio visual services;" a "networking reception" where the fare included "Petit Beef Wellington" and 1,000 sushi rolls at $7 apiece; $147,000 for airfare and lodging; a $75,000 "bicycle building project" designed as a "team-building exercise" — were enough to prompt people in Las Vegas to wish, as the old saw goes, that what happened there would have stayed there.
