For more subtle tastes, lighter-than-air frog-leg raviolis touched with a delicate watercress sauce were a perfect choice.

Veal paillard purportedly comes with a watercress sauce.

The dinner begins with sole paupiettes - sole fillets rolled around lightly cooked vegetable bundles, served with a watercress sauce.

Serve hot with the watercress sauce.

Serve with watercress sauce.

Serve hot with the watercress sauce and a good selection of steamed spring vegetables.

Both the stalks and leaves of watercress can be eaten; try salmon served with watercress sauce.

Specialties: wild duck (colvert) in watercress sauce; seafood.

Remove from heat, drizzle each dish with watercress sauce and serve.

The smoked chicken and fontina quesadilla and the lobster sausage with red pepper and watercress sauce were less compelling than the other small plates.