5 to Try: Prix Fixe Menus

Choices abound for at this French restaurant's five-course feast. You'll be selecting from 15 appetizers and salads, over a dozen entrees and seven desserts. That doesn't even include the chef's starters and the cheese plate.

Canapes and cookies bookend a five-course dinner that might feature fois gras pate, roasted duck breast or Chilean sea bass.

The Grand Prix of the prix fixe offers a different menu daily. Hearts of palm gratin, sesame-crusted seared tuna, beef tenderloin, baby greens with walnuts, and poached pears is just one possible lineup.

Popular among the younger crowd, the $25 per couple price tag ensures dating diners predominate. Entrees are limited, but at least you get five flavor choices for ice cream.