Garlic-accented beef carpaccio with chestnuts sounds better than it is.

Beef carpaccio, perhaps frozen for easier slicing, was still icy and thus flavorless.

Meltingly good beef carpaccio got a jolt from fried capers ($8).

Gingered beef carpaccio or Oriental shrimp ravioli are among appetizers.

Only beef carpaccio disappointed; both the meat and the dressing proved unaccountably bland.

A masterful tapenade brings paper-thin slices of beef carpaccio to life.

It makes beef carpaccio seem blatant.

In the same blah league was a plate of paper-thin beef carpaccio topped with arugula.

Beef carpaccio also received a splendid send-off.

The menu consists of sandwiches, salads and light fare like seared salmon or beef carpaccio.

After plates of fried calamari and beef carpaccio, the group headed to Social Hollywood for dinner.

The arugula pesto helps the flavor of the bland beef carpaccio underneath, but not significantly, and the meat is cold.

It's more like beef carpaccio, with a fresh green papaya salad dressed with chili and lime juice.

Take beef carpaccio.

Beef carpaccio and heavily peppered calamari were undistinguished.

The dish that draws me back is the beef carpaccio with Parmesan cheese and great, peppery fronds of arugula.

Truffle-oil-laced beef carpaccio topped with artichoke hearts and Parmesan shavings is a recent addition to the menu.

Beef carpaccio was a knockout, the wafers of beef so thin they seemed part of the plate.

I recognized the charbroiled chicken yakitori and the tender Mane-raised beef carpaccio arugula.

Classics dominate; try the beef carpaccio or beef tartare (prepared tableside).

The trouble is that it's US-based - key in beef casserole and you get beef carpaccio.

Raw beef carpaccio, Parmesan, olive oil and lemon have always been a sure-fire combination, and the dish tasted better than it looked.

(From the fall menu: grilled scallops, beef carpaccio and filet mignon.)

Among the antipasti are grilled portobello mushrooms; polenta with wild mushroom sauce; beef carpaccio, and a soup of the day.

But at the Montpelier we ate succulent beef carpaccio, baked mushrooms and a refreshingly light souffle pudding.