Mr. Baidouri said that they often have house-made Moroccan bread, but there was none when we were there - and the store-bought pita bread wasn't warmed.

Another of those pleasures is a relatively flat loaf of house-made bread, served as a complimentary starter.

As you eat the soup, a waiter is likely to come around with a basket, urging you to try the house-made breads or corn sticks.

Certainly the food, beginning with the basket of wonderful, yeasty house-made bread, is enough to make you forget the outside world.

Meals begin with good house-made breads, bowls of the tiny olives and olive oil.

Pricier Village Seafood is for those who can't get enough snow crab legs, lobster tails and fresh-shucked oysters, plus salads and house-made breads.

Meals begin with a basket of puffy house-made bread studded with tiny black sesame seeds, and a dish of tahini blended with pekmez, a thick grape syrup.

The house-made French bread is better than ever, and there is a notable wine list.

Portions are large, so two of them made an ample meal, helped along by the ultra spicy papadums and crusty, house-made breads, which tasted even better dunked in olive oil.

His house-made breads arrive warm and inviting; a baguette and whole wheat brioche were recent favorites.