The salads need more assertive dressings: crab and mango, lobster and mesclun, veal tongue and spinach have bland dressings, but they were stunning to behold.

Mr. Pritsker's version, warm horseradish-glazed veal tongue on a bed of spinach, is delicious.

Jonathan ordered quail with foie gras fritters and then veal tongue with artichokes.

Calves' brain and exotic veal tongue were also on the menu, but the women weren't up to it.

The most adventurous appetizer on the menu may be one of the best, a salad of warm, velvety veal tongue served with Madeira gelée and baby beets, yellow carrots and turnips.

Thorough disasters included overcooked, mushy artichokes; gray, tough veal tongue in an oily green sauce; and all desserts including very tired cheeses.

It includes roast beef, veal tongue, mutton slices and a whole roasted piglet stuffed with buckwheat.

Lest someone feel deprived as the time came for the main course, there was veal tongue with tomato sauce and pesce di scoglio, or rockfish.

And the tongue in cheek is braised veal tongue and beef cheeks.

Some of them, who have enjoyed her cooking, especially classic Polish dishes like veal tongue with horseradish sauce and sumptuous meringue cake with coffee butter cream, suggested that she write a cookbook.