And although promised avocado was missing from the salad (a menu category worth considering), three huge shrimp had no trouble holding their own under a lime vinaigrette.

The romaine salad with feta, black olives and tomatoes is a better pick than the boring arugula, watercress and endive combination in a too-sour lime vinaigrette.

Teamed with som thum, a fresh-tasting salad of green papaya, shredded tomato, lemongrass, and lime vinaigrette, it is perfect.

Instead, one might think of a serenata, a salad of dried codfish and boiled root vegetables like yautia, name, malanga, green bananas and yuca, in a peppery lime vinaigrette.

A salad of ripe tomatoes, avocados, red onion and lime vinaigrette was a better choice on a hot night.

The compelling American fare includes starters of crawfish and yam salad in a lime vinaigrette and crabcakes with cumin vinaigrette and shaved fennel.

The Japanese women have devoured adorable little mounds of tuna tartar crowned with a mousse of avocado and drizzled with lime vinaigrette.

But the recipes here go well beyond her earlier repertory as she presents a polenta with mascarpone and gorgonzola or a fennel and orange salad with a lime vinaigrette.

Local oysters are roasted well (not dried out as is so often the case) and flavored with a sweet-salty Japanese lime vinaigrette.

Afterward, go for the curry fried calamari with lime vinaigrette, the potstickers with coriander-mint pesto, the warm duck salad and the crispy whole striped bass.