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“LA Cucina chet Greg
Tiberio Faedo's North Vancouver restaurant.

DINING

La Cucina joins
two-decade club

NEWS photo Paul McGrath
Shier in the dining room of

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La Cucina, 1509. Marine
Dr., North Vancouver, 986-
1334. Visa, MasterCard
and. American Express
accepted. Open for dinner
Monday to Saturday. Open
for lunch Monday to
Friday. Fully _ licensed.
Vegetarian options? A few.
Take the kids or call a
babysitter? Call a babysit-
ter.

Menu for tonight:

© Glass of Col di Sasso
($6.50)

© Tortellini In Brodo

© House special Buffalo
Mozzarella salad ($10.95)
© Grilled Sea Bass ($23.95)
© Osso Bucco special
($21.95)

' ($4.75)

HIS restaurant quietly
entered the Two

_ Decade Club last year.

Nothing to sneeze at,
there. Exclusive membership,
don’t you know.

On the North Shore few
white-tablecloth restaurants
qualify. -

Make that few white-.
tablecloth restaurants any-
where in the Lower
Mainiand.

Restaurant lifespans at at

that end of the market aren't
measured in years, lec alone
decades. Mouths would be
closer to reality.

Such is the fickleness of
the business.

So what has Tiberio
Faedo got that most other
restaurant owners don’t?

Id suggest a strong sense
of styie and consistency; and
a sound northern Italian
grounding in what makes a
good meal and what makes a
good restaurant experience.

All of those elements are
at the core of La Cucina.

If the name springs not
immediately to mind, you're
excused.

It’s not the latest local
dining room of the month.

fc Just remains one of the “~
best. .

The 1509 Marine Dr.
location has been in the
capable hands of Mr. Faedo ~
since 1979 — the year the
former Cafe des Alpes, Park. -”
Royal Hotel, Cannery waiter.
took ownership of the bank-
rupt Kyprios taverna from,
the receiver.

Back then $2,000 got you.
a well-worn building and a:
handful of abandoned °
Kyprios chairs. Back when

- Greck tavernas were all the.
rage.

So it was from spartan es
beginnings that the restaura- |
teur born near Venice into a
family that included four sis.
ters took on his own restau-

_ fant in Canada.

He’s never locked back.”

La Cucina is not a high-*
profile affair. No need for. -
that. Itj just carries on deliv.

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_ Happy Holidays

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