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PASPAROS PARTY ... Pasparos Taverna owners Gregory and Katia Roumanis (centre front) are
surrounded by thoir restaurant's staff prior to Pasparos’ recent 20th-anniversary party.

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Timothy Renshaw
TABLE HOPPING

ros Taverna, 132 West 3rd
St., North Vancouver. 930-6331.
Visa, MasterCard and American
Express accepted. Open everyday
for dinner. O en Monday to
Friday for lunch. Fully licensed.
’ Take the kids or call a babysitter?

You couid do either.

FULL 20-cork Table

Hopping salute is in

order. As is plenty of
raucous Greek snake danc-
ing, boisterous belly dancing
and a rousing finale of tradi-
tional glass and crockery
smashing.

For the cradle of all North
Shore Greek dining is celebrating
its 20th anniversary. Pasparos
Taverna was born in June 1974,
fathered by that restless globe-
trotting gourmet Aristedes
Pasparakis. lts birth was a wild
Greek affair never before seen on
the sedate and gastronomically
barren North Shore of the early
’70s.

its arrival signaled the dawn of
a new culinary era locally and the
end of the drab two-note dining
tune of Chinese-Canadian and
straight Diner-Canadian cuisine
played for so long in North and
West Vancouver.

Twenty years on, Aristedes
remains in transit, spreading the
Greek dining gospel in places in
need of Mediterranean warmth
and passion; a host of Greek tav-
ernas, restaurantes and bodegas
dot the North Shore dining map,
as do a wide variety of other
restaurants from around the
globe: and Pasparos soldiers on.

Far from withering under the
heat of competition or drifting

aimlessly into oblivion after the
departure of the mercurial
Pasparakis, Pasparos has set down
deep community roots and
thrived. ,

Its secret to survival is charac-
ter and culinary substance.

Pasparakis, whose vision
always exceeded his immediate
grasp and whose restless spirit
could not remain seated in one
locale for more than a few years,
sold the small Greek taverna to
Gregory Roumanis in 1978,
knowing his restaurant would be
in the capable hands of one of
Pasparos’ durable and affable
waiters.

And Roumanis has served the
Pasparos credo well. He remains
at its helm after 16 years, a mile-
stone in itself.

But more than merely main-
taining the original, Roumanis has

’ improved on it.

Pasparos was expanded in
1986. An outdoor patio, an
almost mandatory Greek restau-

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party

rant appendage, was added ori
the occasion of the taverna’s 15th
anniversary.

Last Christmas, the patio was
covered and outfitted with over-
head heating, and the restaurant's
bar was extended along its east
wail.

The restaurant now has seating
for 170 people, and its original
character of informal Greek vitali-
ty remains intact.

When it is shoulder-to-shoul-
der with diners and filled with the
infectious whirl of Greek bazouki
music, Pasparos embodies the
best in Greek dining.

Maintaining such continuity
over 20 years in the restaurant
trade is 2 monumental task.

Pasparos’ kitchen, for example,
has trained a host of capable per-
sonnel who have gone forth and
multiplied elsewhere, sometimes
in direct competition with the

riginal. The most recent example

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