Once a month, Oriole9 holds a reservations-only, prix fixe dinner.
A lighter variation on the theme was variété de la mer: red snapper, scallops and shrimp in a tomato-and-fennel sauce with beurre blanc, part of a weeknight-only prix fixe (three courses for $36).
One enduring Manhattan bargain, the $19.98 prix fixe lunch menu at the Gotham Bar and Grill, 12 East 12th Street, is matched by a smart $19.98 lunch-only prix fixe wine card developed by the sommelier, John Gilman.
(Open Mondays through Saturdays for lunch and dinner, Sundays for dinner only. Prix fixe $68).
(Open weekdays for lunch and dinner, weekends for dinner only. Prix fixe, $30 for lunch, $52 for dinner).
On Valentine's Day, only a prix fixe menu at $59.95 will be available.
A year later, and at the same track, he won his first, and so far only, grand prix.
The IndyCar race at Toronto will be the series' only grand prix in Canada for the foreseeable future.
As announced by its promoter last month, the race at Edmonton was canceled, leaving Toronto as the only grand prix for the open-wheel series in Canada.
After the first Formula One race in the Middle East was staged in Bahrain in 2004, it seemed safe to assume that it would be the region's only Grand Prix as the racing series pursued its worldwide expansion.
This reversal is expressed not only in Prix's metal and glass shield but also in the design for other new buildings in the Gasometer complex: an office block, a shopping center, a multiplex.
