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Serves up fresh starters of salad and wings in European capital (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

warsaw

'european capital' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'serves up fresh starters of salad and wings' is the wordplay.
'serves up' says the letters should be written in reverse.
'fresh' becomes 'raw'.
'starters of' suggests taking the first letters.
The initial letters of 'salad and wings' is 'saw'.
'raw' back-to-front is 'war'.
'war'+'saw'='WARSAW'

'in' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for warsaw that I've seen before include "1929 international agreement regulating commercial air transport" , "Capital city on the Vistula" , "Capital city of Poland" , "European city (with a Convention for commercial flying)" , "Capital of a European Union state" .)

I've seen this clue in the Irish Times.
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