Shrimp risotto is paired with tomato fondue and enormous cerignola olives.

This is evident in his colorful vegetable pizza with goat cheese and basil, as well as the cleanly fried polenta-stuffed shiitake with a ripe tomato fondue.

Monday brings a fish of the day cooked in parchment and served with mushroom duxelles and tomato fondue.

Don't miss the smoked salmon and scrambled egg crepes au gratin with baby spinach and sundried tomato fondue ($7.95).

The same quality scallops - they are alive when they hit the poaching liquid - are still served, enhanced by a subtle tomato fondue touched with lime and sharpened with hot pepper.

Also garnering raves was an impressive veal chop set atop a chunky tomato fondue.

His risotto is a sensual feast, a luxurious mingling of rice, chervil and white truffle oil that arrives at the table with a small copper pot filled with shrimp in a tomato fondue.

On streets once jammed with pushcarts and alive with the sound of Yiddish, pine-nut-crusted halibut shares the plate with truffle-scented tomato fondue.

At Bouley in New York City, a thick tomato sauce was called "tomato fondue."

Sea bass, lightly crunchy outside, is surrounded by fat cannellini beans and a flavorful tomato fondue.