It comes with a searingly hot green sauce or a bland beige sauce, but this chicken needs no adornment.

A similar bland brown sauce bogs down the stuffed veal zingara.

Its somewhat bland sauce needed salt to give it some life.

A special of teriyaki steak had no Asian flavors, but instead arrived with a bland brown sauce.

Wild boar, however, was a bore, chewy and bland in its apricot-based sauce.

The same bland sauce also accompanied the otherwise fine fried oysters.

The seafood in the mariscada was also fine, but the green sauce utterly bland.

Only orecchiette with broccoli, chewy chicken and a bland sauce fell short.

Its bland sauce had no spark and generated little interest at our table.

And skip small escargots of poor quality drowning in a bland, runny sauce.