Crisp little tortilla tubes are stuffed with sweet-and-sour pork barbecue and served with a creamy, cool avocado sauce.

Crab cakes are fine, along with a warm creamy avocado sauce ($17.50).

Perhaps this was the inspiration for a silken avocado sauce I enjoyed in Mexico City, where it was served with simply grilled fish.

A special of grilled shrimp accompanied by a soothing avocado sauce received thumbs up, but fish beignets received mixed notices.

The tuna, thin as carpaccio, is layered across a sort of Venezuelan avocado sauce.

An also-ran but still admirable was a thick, moist salmon steak topped with curried avocado sauce.

Top with a large dollop of the avocado sauce, sprinkle with the tomatoes and remaining cilantro and serve.

I've got black-bean fritters, Parmesan-cheese oysters and bite-sized pieces of grilled red snapper with avocado sauce.

The word guacamole (avocado sauce) is derived from "guaca" (from "aguacate" or avocado) and the word mole.

In the Aztec language the word simply meant 'sauce' - you see it in the word 'guacamole', which just means 'avocado sauce'.