Fine salmon with chopped sweet potato and two medallions of duck breast received similar presentation.
Perfectly fine salmon, however, was deliciously eclipsed by two crepes wrapped around a mix of raisins and julienne vegetables, the raisins adding unexpected, delightful sweetness.
I've been back to Syros several times now and enjoyed carefully cooked striped bass ($17), fine salmon steak ($13.50) and good grilled sardines ($9.95).
Leslie Perreault, another Washington state salmon smoker, claimed to have the finest salmon at the convention.
I have traveled around the country for the past two weeks with two Directors of the finest salmon farm in the world, Loch Duart Scottish Salmon.
The fish bluster heard at the Hilton may not decide who has the world's finest salmon, but it certainly pinpoints each product's purported strengths.
If the strip mine goes on line, it would pollute public water supplies, threaten redwood parks downstream, and endanger one of the country's finest salmon streams, not to mention reversing restoration on the Smith that has already cost taxpayers millions of dollars.
As well as some fine smoked salmon and Irish cheese, the event also introduced me to the joys of Connemara and Teeling whiskies, my recommendation for Monday night if you, like the hat wearers, are not fans of the black stuff.
A generous portion of mussels marinieres is perfectly cooked, and the sauce of white wine, shallots and herbs almost demands to be mopped up with bread; and a fine grilled salmon is served with a pile of terrific curlicue fries and a small green salad.
A year later Allen, an architect who has designed other people's vacation homes in St. Bart's, and Suzi, a bird-dog trainer, found their Walden: a cozy three-room cabin on the banks of Cape Breton's Margaree River, some of the finest Atlantic salmon water in North America.
Wearing a fine-knit salmon-colored cardigan and with her head held high and knees pressed together primly, Ms. Mirren seemed the embodiment of regal, a word so frequently attached to her that she has grown to dislike it.
