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Roast Prime Rib, Thursday, Friday and Saturday Evenings.
Specialists in Catering & Take-out Services

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DINING

Marmalade hosts pair of Burns dinners

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And she stocks it with
much brightness, warmth and
buoyant sociability.

Also lots of colourful wall
art, Italian serving platters and
other appealing ceramics, and
such assorted edibles and col-
lecdbles as bottles of Cprah
Winfrey's favourite vinaigrettes
and oils from Cuisine Perel
(How about a Late Harvest
Riesling vinaigrette or a
Toasted Pumpkin Seed and
Grape Seed oil?), olives and
andipasto. All for purchase or
casual perusal.

Loco’s deli-cookware-exot-
ic collectibles combination has
been a wadition at the 1735
Marine Dr. location since the

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days of the Remarkable Dog
way back in the early 1990s
when David Vance and
Bronwen Wilson stocked the
location with all manner of
attractive and unique para-
phernalia that made interesting
company for purchasers,
browsers and cafe diners alike.

Though the Dog’s grand
ornate wooden Paris bistro
bar, circa 1895 to 1900, has
long since departed, the room,
with its 20-foort high ceilings,
stone floors, stylish European
furniture and display cabinets,
retains its Parisian cafe person-
ality, to which Hanna and the
Gallos have added more
Italian and southern
Hemisphere sensibilities.

And while Loco’s diversity
of collectibles is less rich than
the Remarkable Dog's, its
food is better.

The panini sandwiches, for
example, are some of the best
served this side of the inlet.

Loco started with four vari-
eties when it opened back in
late July 1999; it’s now up to
14.

All are from Gallo’s fertile
gastronomic repertoire, which
is heavily influenced by the
cuisines of Italy and his native
Chile.

Seafood, fresh vegetables
and grilled cookery are front
and centre.

Combinations range from
‘filet of salmon, edam cheese
and tartar sauce to sun-dried
tomatoes, bocconcini, capicol-

ry:
folding) 1/2 loads

li, peppers and artichoke
hearts.

And that’s just the inside.

On the outside: Gallo’s
home-baked focaccia, cut in
thick squares, filled with the
aforementioned ingredients,
then cooked between special
panini grills.

The result is a sandwich
with a crisp golden-brown
waffle-textured exterior and a
wonderfully fresh and soft
interior.

A sampled Coco Loco fea-
tured grilled chicken breast
topped with mozzarella cheese
and sundried tomatoes fin-
ished in a mild pesto sauce.

The accompanying cala-
masi salad was a light combi-
nation of squid rings pickled
with lemon and grilled red

ppers.

Both dishes were excellent.

Elsewhere on Loco’s
antipasto menu (which starts
at .85 cents per item) you'll
find such items as crostini,
pasta salads, marinated mush-
rooms, grilled vegetables and
smoked salmon.

For dessert, the cafe offers
hiscotti, cheesecakes, hazelnut
toffee bars and other enticing
sweets. Cappuccinos, lattes,
steanied , juices and teas
— herbal and other — provide
Loco liquid refreshment. The
cafe’ ’s coffee service, which fea-
ture’s Seattle’s Best products,
kicks off at 7 a.m.

Service is over-the-counter
deli-style.

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Fresh Chicken Legs
BACK ATTACHED
Approx. 3 Ib bag

SOUTH AMERICAN BONITA

f ib.

1.52/kg

Coco Loco adds a light
tropical breeze to West
Vancouver's percolating West
Coast cappuccino and Euro-
deli scene. It delivers informal
elegance at a reasonable price
in 2 regal room.

A hard combination to
beat west of Taylor Way.

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The Marmalade Cafe, 999
Marine Dr. North
Vancouver, 983-3463.

Another North Shore loca-
tion in which to celebrate che
words and wisdom of Scottish
poet Robbie Burns. This one
at the Marmalade, home to all
manner of English, Scottish
and Irish gastronomy. It will
feature a three-course Robbie
Burns Party dinner on
Saturday, Jan. 22 and Jan. 25.

For $27.50 per person,
diners will sup upon Cock-a-
Leekie Soup; Roast Beef
Dinner with Champit Tatties
and Bashed Neeps and Haggis
of course.

For afters a touch of trifle.

Fox enter cainment: bag-
pipers, fiddlers and highland
dancers.

As mentioned in last
week’s Table Hopping, Chesa
restaurant in West Vancouver -
(1734 Marine Dr., 922-
2411) is also hosting two
haggis-filled evenings (Jan.
22 and 25) to celebrate
Robbie Rurns Day.

. Well worth sampling, for
auld fang syne, my desr.
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orth Van Laundry & Dry Cleaning Service
1 East 12 St. Horth Vaacouver
(12th & Lorsdaie)

“Organic Texas.

Rio/Star |
5 Ib bag Grapefruit

$3. 99 each :

Primo Soup
ASSORTED VARIETIES

2/°2.68

1.08/kg 525 ml / 540 mi

Prices effective Jan 19 - Jan 22, 2000
(while supplies last - wa reserve the right to limit quantities.)