These were mostly soft, house-made fresh sausages.

This is especially welcome in a dish like a rustic blend of chicken and rough-hewn house-made sausages ($12.50) served with roasted peppers and potatoes.

A dinner for two that may include langosta frita, shrimp al Modesto, fried calamari, house-made sausages and spinach empanadas is $100, with wine.

Appetizers like house-made sausage with broccoli rape and polenta are large enough to double as entrees.

The lamb in an even better house-made sausage with niçoise olives comes from a tiny Vermont farm.

And in all three cases the dish is part of a studied homeyness that also manifests itself in house-made sausages and liver-laden treats.

A carnivore's delight, this butcher shop's menu includes house-made sausages and artisan breads.

The restaurant's name refers to their daily-changing offerings of house-made sausages.

So, too, was an appetizer special with thick, warm slices of house-made garlic sausage over salad, encircled with thin rounds of potato.

At the end of the aisle was the 100-foot-long butcher counter, which sells every meat imaginable, and 25 varieties of house-made sausages.