The entrees include skate in brown butter, trout amandine, steak frites with bearnaise sauce, and blanquette de veau.

He has just hired a chef from Veritas, and the previous night's specials included pan-roasted skate.

The English version lists only six fish, and it includes skate, which the French version omits.

Other common names for this species include black skate, black stingaree, long-tailed stingaree, longtail black stingray, thorn stingray, and thorntail ray.

For main courses, choices could include steamed skate with fresh chamomile and finished with a bright green garlic and onion dressing; and duck served with kohlrabi, Swiss chard and excellent wild rice.

Other common names for the red stingray include brown stingray, estuary stingaree, Japanese red stingray, Japanese stingray, red skate, whip ray, whip stingray, and yellow stingray.

Other skills on his CV include skate boarding and waterskiing.

The current "Almost Spring" selections include roasted skate at $10 for a taste and $18 to share.

Entrees include baked skate with caper-hazelnut crust and savoy cabbage; roasted lobster with sweet corn, young garlic and purple potatoes; and lamb noisette breaded with artichoke, fava beans and black olive.