Savor a small slice of W. Van dining culture The Ambleside Inn, 1495 Marine Dr., West Vancouver, 922-0101. Visa, MasterCard and American Express accepted. Open Tuesday to Saturday for lunch and dinner. Open Sunday for brunch and dinner. Closed Mondays. Take the kids or call a babysitter? Call a babysitter. very much Willy and Martha’s place. T HEY SOLD it in March, but the Ambleside Innis still The Brueckels, after all, have been the Ambleside’s gracious hosts since they opened the second-storey restaurant in - 1979. Over the years they have estab- lished the 150-seat Ambleside Inn as much more than a good-quaiity restaurant that produces rich European cuisine. . it has become an unofficial community meeting half that hosts political breakfasts, chamber of commerce meetings and Rotary functions. : Add to the above, strategic din- ing locale from which past West Vancouver mayors could survey their fiefdom. The Brueckels’ circle of. friends and acquaintances girdles the globe, and their love for the res- taurant business and enthusiasm for people have filled the Ambleside Inn with a grace of character that is impossible to fab- ricate, They have brought international royalty to West Vancouver and made the Ambleside synonymous with West Vancouver. But time is a restaurateur’s toughest customer to please. _.So after 40 years of pursuing what the Brueckels fond!,