May I Take Your Order? by PotatoD

Although it sounds like it's named for an historical figure, it's not. This dish consists of romaine lettuce and croutons and a dressing whose distinctive ingredients include anchovy, parmesan, and egg.

This dish may or may not include cheese, but you'll always get egg, diced onion, diced bell pepper, and ham.

Why is my ice cream on fire? I was not expecting that when I ordered this dish involving cherries and liqueur.

This is a spicy sauce for pasta made from garlic, tomatoes, and red chili peppers cooked in olive oil.

How do they do that? This dish is cake topped with ice cream inside a browned layer of meringue.

Augh! I wouldn't have ordered this if I knew it involved these ingredients! This dish can be made with chicken or veal cutlets, but it's topped with crab or crayfish meat and bearnaise sauce. I hate bearnaise sauce.

I find this salad idea so unappealing it's no wonder the menu doesn't warn you. This dish consists of diced apples, celery, nuts, and mayonnaise.

A lot of people think seafood and cheese don't go together, so they should be forewarned that this dish is basically lobster in a bechamel sauce with cheese on top.

Order this and you'll get poached eggs, English muffins, Canadian bacon, and Hollandaise sauce.

Named as an allusion to its "richness" this dish consists of oysters on the half-shell, topped with a mixture of finely chopped greens and a lot of butter.

Named for the city in which it originated, this dessert starts with a layer of cocoa, chopped nuts, coconut, and cookie crumbs, then a layer of buttercream and a layer of chocolate.

If you're low-carbing, or you don't like liver, you would be rudely surprised if you unknowingly ordered this beef dish without realizing it involved puff pastry, pate, and mushrooms.