Place a dollop of warm pea purée on each of 48 of your nicest, crispest chips.

The guacamole is superb, served with crisp chips and warm corn tortillas.

The guacamole is superb, made exactly to specifications and served with crisp chips and warm corn tortillas.

The appetizer front-runner from the menu was the Portobello mushroom, which was sliced and topped with crisp chips of roasted garlic.

The liquor license hasn't arrived yet, so if you'd like a beer with the basket of crisp chips that arrives at your table, bring your own.

But even this cliché sparkled with crisp garlic chips and a paper-thin slice of candied tomato.

For starters, crisp chips are fine with full-flavored tomato salsa ($1.50) or garlicky guacamole ($3.25).

What's more, the steak's topper of crisp garlic chips (overly brown slices) gave the dish a bitter taste.

(Instead of bread, crisp Japanese chips are served with a gently spiced red chilies dip upon your arrival.)

"These are nice, thick, crisp chips, kettle-cooked in peanut oil," he said.