Spinach salad is overly sweet and resembled cooked spinach one evening when the hot bacon vinaigrette was added with abandon.

But a confit of pork belly was paradoxically dry, covered in a bacon vinaigrette that is more like a sweet barbecue sauce.

A spinach salad had such a light gloss of warm bacon vinaigrette that we thought that the dressing had been forgotten.

Two of the appetizers are curly endive salad with warm bacon vinaigrette and steamed local mussels with white wine shallots.

It has outrageous combinations like scallop, apple and spinach salad with bacon vinaigrette.

A country salad, mixed greens with roasted garlic, lardons and dots of Roquefort in a lively bacon vinaigrette ($6.50), was a fine beginning.

That was certainly true of the Caesar and the spinach salad with its mushrooms, shaved fennel, chickpeas and warm bacon vinaigrette.

It was large and lovely, loaded with mushrooms and onions and pleasantly wilted by its bacon vinaigrette.

A leg of tender duck confit is perched atop baby arugula and mache in a warm bacon vinaigrette.

They were placed upon a terrific frisée salad laced with creamy goat cheese and marinated oyster mushrooms in a smoky, bacon vinaigrette.