32 - Wednesday, December 13, 1989 - North Shore News

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Don’t slave
in the kitchen
on Christmas

OR A growing number of festive folk, the joyous
sounds of Christmas do not include the roar of family

ovens and family cooks on Christmas Day.

They have the notion that
Christmas Day should be reserved
for celebration, not occupation.
They prefer to let the professionals
sweat it out in the yuleiide kitch-
ens.

And why not? chorus mothers
and other designated Christmas
Day chefs all over the North
Shore.

Unfortunately, most restaurant

TIMOTHY
RENSHAW

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professionals like to do the op-
posite of most non-professionals:
They prefer ta hear the roar of
family cooks and leave the
Christmas cooking to home kitch-
ens.

The number of Narth Shore res-
taurants open on Christmas Day is
therefore extremely limited.

lt dropped by one this year with
the loss of the Canyon Gardensto
residential development.

Christmas Day diners must con-
sequently be an organized lot.
They usually get their reservations
sewn up well in advance -- prob-
abiy while the rest of us are still
trying to shake the ring of
Christmas carols from our ears in
January.

Which all adds up to panic sta-
tions if you don’t organize your

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Christmas Day reservation in the
next five minutes.

The following, then, is a selec-
tion of North Shore restaurants
open Christmas Day and featuring
special yuletide cuisine.

THE AMBLESIDE INN, 1495
MARINE DRIVE, WEST VAN-
COUVER, 922-0101

Willie and Martha Brueckel are
master hosts, and their restaurant
has a warm Germanic atmosphere
that is well suited to festive cele-
brations.

Their Ambleside inn, host of
toyalty and assorted glitterati
through the 1980s, features a
Christmas-Day choice of veal
roast, grilled sole, roast duck or
traditional roast turkey.

Dessert wiil include plum pud-
ding and Swiss chocolate.

Christmas Dinner with all the
trimmings, appetizers, soups and
desserts goes for $29.75.

The turkey selection is $23.75,
THE BRIDGE HOUSE RESTAU-
RANT, 3550 CAPILANO ROAD,
NORTH VANCOUVER, 987-3388

This popular North Vancouver
restaurant launched its Christmas
Day feast last year.

It must have been a big hit,
because manager Lutz Wolltf says
the Bridge House’s two seatings
are already fully booked for
Chris'tras Day 1989, and ‘I
could book another 100 if | had
room.””

I therefore include the Bridge
House here as an option for
Christmas 1990. Remember, those
Christmas Day diners book early,

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do the same, Table Hopping includes in today’s column a listing of North Shore restaurants open for
Christmas Day dining.

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