Yet Kaleidoscope, under the tutelage of Michael Kaphan, the chef and a partner, is by no means a one-trick restaurant.
A lack of cooking skills prevents people from throwing together a meal from whatever is in the fridge, or repurposing items that were not fully used up in a particular recipe, which is the trick of restaurant chefs.
When paying by card overseas, watch out for the dynamic currency conversion trick at restaurants, shops, hotels and so on.
London already has Tube help in this form, while others such as Layar can perform the neat trick with restaurants, mentioned earlier.
Along came massive and massively tricked out restaurants like Spice Market, Vento and Buddakan.
"It is all just a matter of cost," said Tony Bussi, who has been running the well-regarded Hostaria Del Moro in Trastevere for the past 22 years and knows what tricks other restaurants will pull.
Godby is not the first or only chef to make meat-flavored ice cream, but historically this has been a restaurant trick, not a parlor one.
The restaurant trick of baking pastry separately so the crust stays crisp works particularly well with a moist filling like this.
An old restaurant trick is to use one or two matchbooks to level an uneven or wobbly leg.
Tricks of the Restaurant Trade airs at 8pm tonight.
The trick works; more restaurants should try it.
