A few misfires were the chewy rib-eye steak, the slightly overcooked salmon Napoleon and the marinated pork tenderloin served over a melange of vegetables that included gritty arugula.
That includes the necessary assault on the senses, from the barkers shouting check-it-out come-ons above a Wurlitzer organ's grind to that perfect melange of aromas: sausage, onions, frying dough, beer, cigarette smoke, sweat.
It is a confused melange that tries to portray as instinct a will to seduction, a desire to be sexy, and universal norms of attractiveness.
This eponymous album mixes grunge, garage, classical, punk, prog and much else into an exuberant melange that sometimes feels as if several songs are going on at once.
But I always woke up starving, and breakfast often consisted of leftovers, thrown together in a melange that sometimes worked surprisingly well, and at others, not at all.
Impossibly difficult figurations were meticulously dissected; robust exclamations kept exploding again and again in instant replays; odd fillips of Bach and Schoenberg and Babbitt and boogie-woogie were mixed into a melange that composers like Charles Ives and John Cage might have savored.
They both like their new neighborhood, once home to many Italians and Jews and now a melange, including, they said, Eastern Europeans, Pakistanis and Koreans.
Dodgson always rose to the challenge presented by an improbable melange of instruments, including, in 1999, High Barbaree, for recorder, guitar and harpsichord.
What was so striking about this cultural melange was that the aesthetic of the place had broken free of its preconceptions.
The choreography is a melange of different forms, including classical ballet but also more modern, free-flowing styles.
