The lobster bisque is also excellent and made more interesting with crème fraîche, crunchy white beans and a few diced shrimp.

The crunchy beans delivered an astonishing hit of coffee.

Appetizers offered on the prix fixe lunch are baby lettuces, crunchy green beans and pickled carrots, and mushroom bouillon.

I don't like those crunchy little French beans.

Yes," was the riposte from one reader, "and you'll also burn up megacalories grinding up those crunchy beans with your tired jaw!

And the crab cakes ($11) on a lemon-chive beurre blanc with crunchy green beans, zucchini and carrots are also slightly unconventional.

A meatless salad, Thailand's answer to coleslaw, is a refreshing amalgam of shredded cabbage and carrots mixed with tomatoes, crunchy green beans and ground peanuts.

Vegetables, including crunchy green beans, emerald-green broccoli and cubed fried potatoes, are admirably cooked.

The "almost garden" salad adds crunchy green beans, carrots and cherry tomatoes to the exemplary tricolored mix.

Top honors for most memorable go to the arcobeleno, an inspired mixture of crunchy green beans, red onion and sweet beets.