The food is a plus - the truffle menu, served in an atmospheric room, is a feast for the tastebuds.

A seven-course white truffle menu is $250 per person.

Not that the truffle menus are paragons of restraint.

The least expensive of the truffle menus, about $67, offers three truffle courses, plus cheese and dessert.

A chef's tasting menu of six courses is $225, and special truffle menus are in the vicinity of $300.

In spring, the hotel puts on a special six-course truffle menu.

On my first visit, last fall, I arrived anticipating the much-advertised white truffle menu.

Truffles and obscenely rich potatoes will be served with a buffalo steak on a black truffle menu in January.

Even the special white truffle menu might not make my father suspect that Felidia is an Italian restaurant.

I ordered the onion tartlet with a pecan sauce from the special white truffle menu and asked for it without the truffles.