Licorice, raspberry and grilled nuts pop up.
Melt the butter over low heat in a heavy-based saucepan until it turns golden and smells like grilled nuts.
Butter, cream, yeast, bread, toast, grilled nuts, biscuits, almonds.
The pastry chef, Oscar Palacios, produced desserts in fittingly whimsical shapes, and he brokered inspired partnerships, like the cardamom dust over a peanut butter parfait and the grilled pine nuts with chestnut ice cream.
Try calamari with garlic mayonnaise (£4.95), or on my visit there were Girasoli (pasta parcels cooked in pesto sauce with courgette, pine nuts and grilled chicken, £6.95), or a steak sandwich, with flash grilled sirloin in a ciabatta with sautéed mushroom and fries (£7.95).
Fire-roasted penne ($16), with dry, grilled chicken, asparagus, pine nuts and roasted pepper in a bland Fontina cheese broth, was drab and under seasoned.
Speaking of that mozzarella, it appears as an appetizer on its own (a special for the moment but soon to be a keeper), with grilled hot peppers, pine nuts and a balsamic reduction.
Entrees include salmon with black truffle oil wrapped in parchment paper; calf's liver topped with grilled onions and pine nuts; and roast chicken with sweet sausage and broccoli rape.
Endive stuffed with a gloppy mixture of crab, shrimp and squid was like a self-consciously stylish tuna salad, but my first course of macaroni with pesto, pine nuts and grilled chorizo was one for the memory books.
We consume several different food products, including bakery goods, milk, fruit juice, cereals, coffee, chocolate, soft drinks, vinegar, wine, nuts and grilled meat in our daily lives.
Most will probably drink it as a dessert wine, but it also makes a great, chilled summertime aperitif with paté or salty nuts or grilled shrimp.
