Breathtaking Pasta Forget about shaving expensive white truffles over this pasta.

"It makes no sense to shave truffles in the kitchen because the guest loses the impact of the aroma," said Joseph Bastianich, an owner.

In white truffle season he was serving fingerling potatoes, smashed with nothing more than butter, tiny grains of kosher salt and shaved white truffles; it was simple luxury at its best.

In Atlanta, a chef, Guenter Seeger, sometimes appears in the dining room at Seeger's shaving white truffles and wearing his headset.

Terrance Brennan, the chef at Picholine, relies on his blender, too, reducing things like cauliflower into an ethereal puree, over which he shaves white truffles.

The raviolo is served with a sauce of browned butter and shaved white truffles.

Mr. Sachs trades on it, dropping names in his art, like Knoll or Hermes, like a restaurateur shaving truffles onto rice and then charging by the ounce.

In the early morning light that poured through the windows at the Regency I watched as our waiter shaved black truffles gracefully over Lambert's steaming eggs.

Main courses include lobster Napoleon with chanterelles and shaved truffles, and steak au poivre with truffle mashed potatoes and fava beans.

Our waiter said that would not be a problem, but once it was served the chef came over and was about to shave truffles over it.