The well-marbled New York strip steak has a pleasingly fatty sheen to it, but the piece of meat I liked best was the veal chop, which is smothered in a sweet, beefy veal glaze and piled with cipollini onions
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Milanese, which is served with a rich garlic-and-parsley sauce presented at the table, with proper ceremony, in a
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However, and neither did the wizened little sea scallops, which were crowned with dry strips
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The more-ambitious entres include a portion of flaky, ivory-white cod plated over a delicate stew of warm
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In July 1976, a sewer gang that raided the strongroom of the Societe Generale bank in Nice, France, got away with at least $6 million and possibly as much as $20 million in cash, jewelry and securities. The following year, $3.54 million in newly minted coins were stolen near the Gare de Lyon train station in France.
Two masked gunmen held up Darlington Commodities in Sydney, Australia, the country's largest jewelry dealer, stealing about $3.5 million in gems.
Last Thursday, two armed men held up a Wells Fargo armored car in Memphis, Tenn., stealing $5.2 million in cash, $750,000 in negotiable securities and checks, and $500,000 in bonds.
On Dec. 11, 1978, six ski-masked bandits burst through a chain-link fence in the Lufthansa cargo area at Kennedy International Airport in New York, taking $5 million in cash and $800,000 in jewelry.
In 1978, an armored car was robbed of $5 million in New York. Six men were arrested following the Oct. 20, 1974 robbery of $4.3 million from a Purolator, Inc., building in downtown Chicago.
On April 22, 1981, robbers stole $3.3 million from the First National Bank of Tucson, Ariz., in what was termed the largest bank robbery in U.S. history. One man was arrested in Iowa and some of the money was recovered.
In 1975, $3 million was stolen from the Bonded Vault Co., in Providence, R.I.
Eight days after the Lufthansa robbery in December 1978, thieves held up a Wells Fargo armored truck on Staten Island and got away with $2.25 million in bank funds.
On March 30, 1976, $2.8 million was taken in a robbery of a Brink's armored car in Montreal. In 1979, $2 million was stolen in a heist from Brink's at the Chase Manhattan Bank in New York.
On March 19, 1982, robbers who impersonated FBI agents stole more than $2 million from a Purolator armored-truck collection center near Pittsburgh.
