For flavours that are going somewhere unexpected, sample sea bream in a sweet-and-sour broth, duck filet with cocoa beans and fig chutney, or black truffle and fontina cheese pizza.

It is sprinkled with a few grains of coarse salt and accompanied by a luscious dollop of thick fig chutney.

In New York, Andrew D'Amico, the chef at Sign of the Dove, makes a fig chutney.

Chicken smoked in Lapsang souchong tea leaves absorbs a complex layer of flavor, complemented by sweet fig chutney and a scallion pancake.

Chicken smoked in Lapsang souchong leaves absorbs the dusky perfume of the tea, which is nicely offset by a scallion pancake and a thick fig chutney.

They'd be delicious with a pear, fig chutney or Cumberland sauce.

Mohan Ismail's menu includes a spiced Long Island duck breast served with a fresh fig chutney that is offered as an appetizer or entree.

Ancho chili French brioche toast with warm stewed fruits and fig chutney; David Walzog, the Cafe at Arizona 206; $8.50.

The chef is fond of combining savories with fruit, and the fig chutney is wonderfully unexpected with the rosy grilled rack of lamb.

Soon the lines for the barbecue - grilled veal with fig chutney, beef scented with bonito and chives - were snaking around the factory courtyard.