Chuck's Pizzeria and Restaurant, 340 Victory Boulevard Cebra Avenuee), Tompkinsville, (718) 720-4500, offers tasty platters ($10.95) and heroes ($4.50 or $7) of qevapa, a wonderfully garlicky, skinless beef sausage link, and pleskavic, which is qevapa in patty form.
For a pleasant exception, try the new J. Lohr Vineyards and Wines Café at the base lodge, which serves up tasty platters of French cheeses ($17.95), as well as chef's salads, paninis and Cajun-seared salmon on ciabatta rolls.
But my favourite thing to do in Orta is to go skinny-dipping with my partner at night, then to take her to Al Boeuch (Via Bersani 28, +39 339 5840039), a cosy candlelit old taverna on one of the back streets where Andreas serves too many delicious wines and too many tasty cheeses and platters of prosciutto and hot bruschetta.
Our blackened catfish platter was tasty and so was the fried okra.
In the end I had a platter of tasty muffins with pockets of chewy nuttiness.
Sure-fire hits with this group are led by a large platter of tasty, tender buffalo wings and a warm spinach and artichoke dip served in a hollow round of bread with crisp tortilla chips in attendance.
The vichyssoise and Caesar salad are tasty, but the charcuterie platter is disappointing, the salmon dry, and the asparagus grilled nearly to a crisp.
These are a stunning black and white addition to your dessert platter and tasty treats for the entire week of Passover.
From the roster of à la carte sides, top choices were the tasty creamed spinach and a platter called half and half, consisting of cottage fries (thin homemade potato chips) and wispy onion rings.
Two people share the bubbling pot and are provided with a platter of very tasty grilled chicken strips, about a dozen grilled shrimp, broccoli florets and cubes of ciabatta for dipping.
Choose to have your meat in a sandwich or as part of a platter with a range of tasty rib-sticking sides.
