Entertainment

Seafood restaurant
celebrates birthday

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In concert with that homegrown
theme, the restaurant produces all
its own breads, pastries and fruit
flans and smokes the salmon that
makes up its wonderful hot-smok-
ed Indian Candy ($5.95).

Windows also sheds light on
some formerly dark Heritage
Room corners.

The heavily-bound and odiously
weighty Heritage Room menu has
been replaced, with, egads sir!,
Windows’ handwritten menu
sheet.

The expensive entrce aristocracy
has been quietly retired and
replaced with lighter, less expen-
sive meals that are short on
pretense, but long on imagination
and style.

Grill of local rabbit ($13.95), for
instance, comes with apple spirals,
braised leeks and baby carrots,
while breasts taken from free-
range chickens ($11.95) are oven-
poached in a rhubarb-cranberry
compote.

A quick perusal of the restau-
rant’s appetizer list will yield no
nachos, no chicken wings and,
God forbid, no escargots.

Instead: Baby eggplant in-
terleafed with hot-house tomatoes,
garnished with Vancouver Island
goat cheese and olive oil ($3.95);
or Scallops and. Peppercorn
sausage in saffron herb sauce
($5.50).

Windows also provides a special
Taster’s Corner section replete
with an ever-changing selection of
sample plates for one ($5.95) or
two ($7.25) or four ($10.25)
curious nibblers.

Following Chow’s animated in-
troduction to the restaurant, my
wife and I sampled a Tartare of
Yellow Fin Tuna ($6.95) and a

The Robson Street Irish strong-
hold will celebrate its first St.
Patrick’s Day since the restau-
rant’s recent reconstruction with a
suitably Irish wearing of the green.

The March
things green and things Irish will
be hurrahed at O’Doul’s with a Bit
o’ Blarney Party that will include
green beer, Irish entertainment and
other Irish festivities such as hotel
tours, traditional Irish cuisine and
the custe.aary drowning of the
shamrock.

Participants are advised to dig

out full green regalia for the cele-
brations.
SEA MATES SEAFOOD RES-
TAURANT, 998 MARINE
DRIVE, NORTH VANCOUVER,
980-1213

One of the North Shore’s
favorite centres of good quality,

17 celebration of

bargain seafood is currently
celebrating its 12th anniversary
with a grand revival of such
bargain standbys as Tiger Prawns
($10.95) and the Grilled Seafood
Platter ($13.95), a whopping selec-
tion of Alaska King Crab legs,
Tiger Prawns, salmon, snapper
and oysters.

Sea Mates waiter Mike Barnes
recently illustrated another good
reason for patronizing the restau-
rant with his receipt of the coveted
American Express Big Tip Award,
handed out annually to the waiter
exhibiting the best overall service
and attitude credentials.

Barnes, who has worked at Sea
Mates for eight years, was unable
to attend the Feb. 25 American
Express ceremonies at the Pan
Pacific Hotel. His $100 cheque will
be sent to him in the mail.

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NEED GROCERIES?

Shop at Milo’s Shop-Easy
for all your grocery needs, (including

fresh meat & produce) at city prices.
Convenient parking

HOURS

Fri. gam-10pm
Sat-Thurs.  9-7pm
Sun. 10-7pm

932-3545

radicchio, endive and butter lettuce..

salad with crab and pinenuts.

~ For sushi lovers, the tartare

comes highly recommended.

. Blended with green onions it is a
superb appetizer and is served with
three endive leaves, each filled with
separate portions of Japanese
ginger slices, outspoken green
wasabi horseradish and thin yellow
pickled onion strips.

.The salad, presented beneath a
walnut oi! dressing, was also very
good,

-For main entrees, we chose the
Roast Loin of Saltspring Lamb
($14.95) and the Confit of
Aldergrove Duckling spiced with
raspberry and honey sauce
($12.95).

Both dishes were presented with
green snow peas and a pair of baby
carrots.

The lamb, medium rare, was
laid out in a fan. Unfortunately,
the advertized mushroom sausage
was missing. But the elegant
quatro herb sauce, inspired with a
Peachland fruit chutney, coaxed
the best from the local lamb.

The duckling was first rate.
Preserved in savory duck fat, it
was-a refreshing change from a /a
orange predictability.

The evening’s dessert selection
featured an array of flans with
marvellously dense, raisin-speckled

_ crusts.

Windows is the latest showcase
for the inspired management and
culinary dexterity of the Interna-
tional Plaza, and a_ wonderful
showcase of B.C. foods anc reci-

pes.
Open daily for breakfast, lunch
and dinner.

TASTY MORSELS

O'’DOUL’S, 1300 ROBSON

“The Boat"
White Gold Estates.

‘The Finest of Greek Cooking

wo SPECIAL sgos

ROAST LAMB DINNER
Greek Salad, Roast Potatoes
Vegetable of the day, Garlic Bread
(Opening special 5:00-6:30 Greek soup included)

2422 MARINE DRIVE, WEST VANCOUVER
‘ Reservations, Ph. 922-5751
We cater to groups.

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