Mint can work miracles on menus. Beyond mint jelly with lamb chops, beyond tea and juleps and mojitos, fresh mint is enlivening appetizers, sandwiches, salads, relishes and salsas, and other savory dishes. Further, channeling the spirit of international cuisines is one of the best things spices and herbs like mint can do for food. With mint part of the arsenal of so many different on-trend cuisines, from Vietnamese to Mediterranean to Mexican, it's not surprising that chains are starting to pick up the trend, using mint as a kind of shorthand for authenticity.