It has scant anger left for Israel.
There are a scant five starters on the menu, but from the printed specials list we ordered bison sausage, which turned out to be very dense and rough cut.
(Mr. Le Coze died in 1994; his sister, Maguy, still helms the ship.) Asian accents are scattered throughout a menu that bears scant resemblance to the one in 1995, when Le Bernardin was last reviewed in The Times and received a fresh four stars from Ruth Reichl.
And this led to talk of other restaurants that, like Romera, presented diners with expensive, stage-managed tasting menus, involving many dainty courses and scant choice.
Our brief sampling of the sizable, economically priced menu included fried clam strips, which had scant flavor but came with freshly made cole slaw and a mountain of delicious French fries for $8.99.
We manage about half of each pie, which earns praise from Silver ("You did better than I expected"), though the take-no-prisoners pud menu (sticky toffee, chocolate sponge, lemon meringue) by this time, holds scant appeal.
Less memorable is the soupy, milky cardamon-touched rice pudding and an off the menu offering of pistachio ice cream crowned with crisp, thin white noodles that yielded scant taste.
Weight loss was induced by reducing food intake to two daily meals with 51 g of protein, 286 g of carbohydrates, and 30 g of fat, with 3 basic menus consisting of cereal, whole-wheat bread, potatoes, turnips, and cabbage, supplemented by scant amounts of meat and dairy products.
