1.   Black Mission figs are called for in East Indian Spiced Fruit Yogurt, which Van Aken says is wonderful with spicy grilled lamb and other meat dishes.

2.   He is making a version of another street specialty, lahmajun, flatbread baked with spicy minced lamb, at Napa, his restaurant in Las Vegas.

3.   The dinner menu offers straightforward dishes like seared salmon with a Nicoise olive sauce, rigatoni with spicy lamb sausage, and grilled fish of the day.

4.   The menu was spicy lamb over rice, eggplant in yogurt sauce and green tea.