Among the dishes being offered are homemade pate served with celery-root salad and toast, fish soup served with rouille and garlic croutons, mussels in white wine with fresh herbs and french fries and crepes in an orange sauce, flambeed with Grand Marnier.

Major appetizer successes included mousse of scallops in a green sauce of herbed, garlicky mayonnaise, served with a tiny celery-root salad, and al dente cheese tortellini in a delicate tomato coulis.

This chichi French palace features floral arrangements and wide-eyed foodies who gawk over plates of peekytoe crab and celery-root salad, foie gras terrine with gala apples and black truffle-crusted lobster - and that's just the first course.

A sharp lemon-lime broth, working in reverse, accentuates the sweetness of crisp scallop dumplings, nicely complemented by a cool vegetal celery-root salad.