80 grams of protein, which is more than the Filet Mignon, the Carne Asada or the Steak Frites deliver.
Spiced chicken, melted cheese, onion and chipotle sauce go into corn tortillas. Chipotle is smoked jalapeño. It gives slow heat instead of a sharp one.
Corn tortillas don't make this gluten-free, since gluten and wheat are both listed along with soy and sesame. 1,410 calories, 2,680 mg of sodium.
Its sodium, 1,370 mg, is the lowest of all 17 specialties, and by coincidence the calorie count on the nutrition sheet is the identical number, 1,370.
Bang bang chicken is Sichuan. The name comes from the wooden stick cooks used to beat cooked chicken into shreds, and this Thai-style version, with coconut, curry, peanut and chilli in a sauce over sautéed chicken, shrimp, vegetables and white rice, keeps only the name.
Peanuts and shellfish are both listed. 75 grams of protein. It's the specialty I'd point a salt-watcher towards, as long as nobody at the table has a peanut allergy.
The rocket on top is why this works. Breaded chicken, parmesan cream, basil pasta and prosciutto are all rich. Raw peppery leaves are the only thing cutting through them. Pull the rocket off and the plate turns into one note.
2,020 calories, 98 grams of protein and 4,660 mg of sodium, the same salt figure as the Louisiana Chicken Pasta.
Order it when you want the most interesting plate at the table. The Pasta Da Vinci is a lighter cream-and-wine pasta at 480 fewer calories and about half the sodium.
Madeira is a fortified wine from a Portuguese island in the Atlantic, and it's heated during ageing, a practice that started when sailors found barrels that had crossed the equator came back tasting better. Cooking it down concentrates all of that. The sauce is the dish.
Everything else is a delivery system for it.
89 grams of protein, which is more than any steak on this menu, including the 86-gram Grilled Rib-Eye. 1,300 calories and 2,390 mg of sodium. Gluten, wheat, milk and egg are listed.
The mashed potatoes are where people go wrong. They absorb whatever sauce reaches them and leave the chicken dry, so ask for extra sauce when you order rather than after.
No dish on the menu carries more protein than this one's 120 grams, and the Buffalo Wings, in second place, have 109.
It gets there with size. A large breaded chicken breast arrives covered in marinara and melted cheese the way a pizza would be, with angel hair in Alfredo sauce alongside, so you're eating two heavy Italian-American dishes at once.
123 grams of fat is the most in the specialties section, and 1,940 calories is second there, behind the Chicken Bellagio. Split it. Sodium is 3,730 mg.
This chicken dish lists fish among its allergens. A classic piccata is lemon, butter, capers and white wine with no fish at all, and the menu doesn't say which ingredient adds it, so if you avoid fish, ask before ordering.
The plate itself is one of the better-judged ones here.
1,420 calories with 79 grams of protein. Compare the Spicy Rigatoni Vodka at 1,570 calories and 34 grams and you can see which one feeds you. Capers are pickled flower buds, and they do the same job as the lemon, cutting through the butter. I'd eat around a lot on a plate, but not those. Sodium is 2,920 mg.
Buffalo Wings give you 47 more grams of protein than this platter for 380 fewer calories.
That's the comparison to make before you order. These tenders carry 1,500 calories, 62 grams of protein and 3,230 mg of sodium. Mashed potatoes and buttered corn come with them. The mash alone is 450 calories as a side.
It's an adult-sized plate of fried chicken with barbecue and honey mustard dips, and there's nothing wrong with that. Order it hungry.
120 grams of fat is what you're actually ordering. That's 42 grams over the FDA's daily value for fat. A costoletta is a cutlet pounded thin and breaded — the Milanese method, where the point of the pounding is surface area. More crust per bite. That's why it eats richer than a thicker piece of chicken cooked the same way.
1,800 calories, 77 grams of protein, 2,990 mg of sodium. Fish is listed, and the menu doesn't say which ingredient it comes from.
242 grams of carbohydrate, the third-highest figure on the whole menu, behind only the Cinnamon Roll Pancakes and the Lemon-Ricotta Pancakes. And it's the lowest-fat plate in its section, at 50 grams.
Both of those come from the same place: battered chicken and shrimp in a sweet glaze over white rice, with pineapple, snow peas and peppers, where sugar and starch carry the dish instead of oil or cream.
Seven allergens are listed. Gluten, milk, fish, shellfish, wheat, soy and sesame. If you're ordering for a table with restrictions, this is one to rule out first.
107 grams of protein, third-highest on the entire menu behind only the Chicken Parmesan and the Buffalo Wings, and it does it at 1,800 calories. Several pastas here cost more calories and give you half that. Romano and parmesan are both hard aged cheeses, high in salt and low in moisture, which is why crusting chicken in them browns into a shell rather than going soft the way breadcrumbs do. The tomato-herb sauce underneath is deliberately thin. It's there to stop the cheese running the whole plate.
That cheese costs you 4,420 mg of sodium — close to twice a day. If you track salt, plan the rest of the day around this rather than skipping it, because on protein there's almost nothing better here.
5,100 mg of sodium, fourth-highest on the whole menu, and 1,930 calories, which puts this comfort dish ahead of every steak on offer.
Fish is also on the allergen list. Worcestershire sauce is a standard meatloaf seasoning and it's made with anchovies, which is the likeliest explanation, though the menu doesn't confirm it. Ask if fish matters to you.
Mashed potatoes, mushroom gravy, grilled onions and buttered corn come with it. It's two meals.
Seven allergens are listed: gluten, milk, egg, fish, wheat, soy and sesame.
You choose grilled or battered fish, and the published figures don't say which version they describe. They show 1,320 calories and 50 grams of protein. The Baja Chicken Tacos give you 80 grams for 90 more calories.
Corn tortillas, avocado, tomato, chipotle sauce, marinated red onion and cilantro, with rice and black beans. Order grilled.
Of the 17 specialties, this is the only one with a single allergen: milk.
Corn tortillas are filled with chicken, cheese, chile and onion, then covered with salsa verde and sour cream. Salsa verde is made from tomatillos. They grow in a papery husk and taste sharper than any tomato. Rice and beans come alongside.
21 grams of fiber, tied for third-most on the menu. For a coeliac diner, it's the first specialty I'd point to.
Of the three taco plates in the specialties, this is the heaviest at 1,580 calories, 170 more than the Baja Chicken Tacos and 260 more than the Fish Tacos.
It also has less protein than the chicken version, 67 grams against 80, and I'd still order it, because chipotle and char suit beef better than chicken.
Soft corn tortillas hold chargrilled steak, avocado crema, chipotle sauce, onions and cilantro, with rice and beans alongside. The beans help explain the 17 grams of fiber. Corn tortillas don't make it gluten-free: gluten and wheat are both listed.
239 grams of carbohydrate. That's the number that separates this from every other chicken dish here, and it comes from the sweet gochujang glaze and the rice underneath rather than the chicken itself. Korean fried chicken is double-fried, which drives moisture out of the skin and is why the coating stays crisp under a wet sauce instead of going soggy in four minutes. That technique is the entire reason the dish exists. It works.
The full plate is 1,810 calories and 3,930 mg of sodium — over one and a half days of salt. Protein comes in at 51 grams, which is low for a fried chicken plate of that size, because so much of the weight is glaze and rice. Soy and sesame are both listed, along with gluten, wheat and egg.
It's the Orange Chicken idea without the chicken, crispy cauliflower, snow peas, carrots and mushrooms in a sweet and spicy orange sauce, and it saves 360 calories against that dish.
Protein falls with it. 22 grams, the least of the 17 specialties. No milk or eggs are listed.
205 grams of carbohydrate and 67 grams of sugar. At $12.95 it's the cheapest specialty.
233 grams of carbohydrate, exactly the same as Linda's Fudge Cake. A chicken dinner and a chocolate layer cake, level.
The reason is the glaze and the rice underneath rather than the chicken. Battered, fried, coated in a sweet citrus sauce — sugar is doing structural work here, not just seasoning. 1,750 calories, 52 grams of protein, 2,730 mg of sodium. Gluten, wheat, soy and sesame are listed. No dairy, no egg, which is unusual for something fried on this menu.
105 grams of protein, the fourth-highest figure on the whole menu, and 62 grams of carbohydrate, the fewest of any specialty.
That pairing makes it the smartest order in the section for anyone counting protein. It's 70 calories heavier than the Chicken Madeira and gives you 16 more grams. The coating is parmesan, garlic breadcrumbs and herbs pressed onto sautéed breasts, not a deep-fried batter.
Salt is the trade. 3,350 mg. Mashed potatoes and green beans come alongside.
Milk is the only allergen on this dish. No gluten, no wheat, no egg, no soy, no nuts — and on a menu where almost everything lists five things, that's remarkable enough to be the reason to order it. Ground beef and vegetables under mashed potato, 1,400 calories, 74 grams of protein. Sodium runs 3,290 mg, which is the real cost.
Strictly a shepherd's pie is lamb and a cottage pie is beef. Almost nobody outside Britain observes that, and the kitchen here doesn't either. It's beef.
Rice noodles mean there's no gluten or wheat in the recipe, and the dish is vegetarian.
Very few full plates here manage both. That makes this one of the only mains a coeliac vegetarian can order without building something from sides, though the kitchen isn't gluten-free, so say so when you order. Peanuts, milk and egg are listed.
The cost is protein. 23 grams against 222 grams of carbohydrate and 3,170 mg of sodium, and the shrimp version is the fix if you need more.
The shrimp adds 180 calories and 13 grams of protein to the plain Thai Stir Fried Noodles. It's still only 36 grams.
Rice noodles, snow peas, shiitake mushrooms, bean sprouts, green onion, egg, cilantro and peanuts make up the rest, and the allergen list, milk, eggs, shellfish and peanuts, has no gluten, wheat or soy on it.
90 grams of sugar. 3,370 mg of sodium. 1,640 calories.
1,700 calories. Among the 17 specialties, only four plates are heavier: the Chicken Bellagio, the Pizza Style Chicken Parmesan, the Korean Fried Chicken and the Costoletta.
The idea is simple and it works. A fried chicken breast gets a drizzle of truffle-infused honey, which sets sweet and earthy against a salty crust, and asparagus and mashed potatoes fill out the plate. Egg isn't on the allergen list, which isn't true of the Chicken Tenders or the Costoletta. Gluten, milk and wheat are all it names.
107 grams of fat and 3,030 mg of sodium. I'd eat the chicken and the asparagus and leave most of the mash, since a side order of it runs 450 calories by itself.