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the rocks for action. Left: After-
school league at tne Lonsdale
rec centre will keep a smile on
Andrew Thomson’s face.

LEFT: GREG Sawers,
10, is an old pro, hav-
ing curled for the past
year. Right: Adam Dell
(with hat) and Simon
Lee take a break from
sweeping at the North
Vancouver Elementary
School Curling League
at the Lonsdale rec
centre. For details on
this and other pro-
grams, call 987-PLAY.

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Wednesday, November 16, 1994 ~— North Shore News -. 35.

New restaurant
offers two menus

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spice.

tt includes the more formal
and more expensive Granite
Menu (appetizers $5 to $8,
including Tortilla and Pepper
Soup, Corn Fried Fanny Bay
Oysters and Wood-smoked B.C.
Salmon; entrees $17 to $24,
including Grilled Pork
Medallions, Charred Queen
Charloue Spot Prawns and
Grain-fed Veal Chop), and the
open-shirt-and-slacks Cafe
Menu, which changes weekly
and features lighter bistro-style
items at lower prices (entrees
range from $12 to $16) than its
Granite counterpart.

MacEwen also offers a host
of enlightened dining options
such as mixed appetizer platters,
five-course tasting dinners and
vegetarian platters for those who
prefer to sample a variety of
smaller dishes.

The Granite is also viticul-
turally enlightened, offering 10
interesting selections by the
glass and haif-litre ($5 and up)
on the regular wine list and
weekly specials by the glass and
half-litre on the its Cafe Menu.

The restaurant's wine list is
strongly West Coast Western
Hemisphere, with good repre-
sentation from B.C., California.
Washington and Chile, Australia
and New Zealand.

Besides offering some stimu-
lating visual culinary theatre, an
open kitchen usually guarantees
better than average kitchen pro-
duction.

Customer and cooking staff
are, after all, more or less face
to face. There are no kitchen

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walls or doors to hide behind if
that blue-plate special is less
than special.

At the Granite, the youthful
Chef MacEwen oversees the
production of some excellent
dishes.

Granite bread plates include
pita, sundried tomato and cheese
and corn variations along with
spicy and plain papadums.
Beakers of sundried tomato
olive oil spiked with chilies
accompany.

Our opening Chinese Duck
Tortilla Roll featured thin slices
of duck and julienne vegetables
wrapped in a pair of tortillas
surrounded with chipotle may-
onnaise and accompanied with
pickled jicama slaw.

Both Cafe entrees were
excellent.

The West Coast Seafood
Stew was a glorious soup bowl
of prawns, mussels, salmon in a
peppery fish stock bolstered by
Thai curry and coconut cream.
Oriental douillabaisse.

On the other side of the table:
Curried Vegetable Ragout, a
combination of vegetables and
banana stewed in a spicy curry
accented with fennel seeds and
fresh coriander.

It came with white Basmati
rice and a large whole-wheat
chapati. |

Desserts ($6 and $7, includ-
ing Double Chocolate Fudge
Brownie, Lemon Sponge Roll
and Poached Pear) and dessert
wines are also offered.

Nothing struck our fancy this
time around, but we shall return
with a larger contingent.

And yes, Your Worship, you
have my vote on the Granite.

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