12 - Friday, May 30, 1986 - North Shore News

FIFTY SELECTIONS

Cafe Roma offers ‘wall of pasta’

MARIO CORSI has officially retired the half-baked con-
cept of Charley Potatoes and gone back to what he knows

best.

Cafe Roma is an easy-going
pasta, pizza and ensalada retreat.
Not another, those of the over-
pastaed and pizzaed palates will
surely groan. But fear not, the new
ee

table
e
hopping

Corsi venue that has been installed
in the 60 Semisch Avenue location
is several cuts above tiresome old
Charley and the majority of stan-
dard pasta and pizza emporiums.

Gone is Charley's Top 40 from
the year 1900-to-now dance
musical serenade and the strained
upbeat atmosphere. Sent packing
with Charley and his two-tone
shoes and hennaed hair is the
heavy-meat and gourmet-burger
menu.

Corsi has stopped twiddling
chicken fingers and once again
tapped his rich Italian culinary
heritage.

PASTA PLUS

Cafe Roma offers a virtual wall
of pasta with 50 selections, all
made on the premises; a_half-
dozen interesting pizzas; a sprinkl-
ing of main seafood and meat en-
trees; and a good selection of
Italian appetizers. All are served
atop the restaurant's gingham-
clothed tables.

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Or:

CHEF Antonio Corsi displays some of the seafood available

at Cafe Roma: Pasta is the restaurant's specialty, with more
than 50 selections. The restaurant is owned by Mario Corsi,
the former owner of Charley Potatoes.

CANYON GARDENS

3381 Capilano Rd.
(Near Suspension Bridge)

Open 365 Days a Year

Reservations
988-6101 _

The overhaul suits both location
and staff. There is a new vitality to
the second-floor restaurant.
Waiters must no longer feign in-
terest in the latest fashions and
sounds.

Instead, they are free to discuss
with genuine enthusiasm, as did
the waiter who served my wife and

spicy Halian red pepper sauce.

In the antipasto, tiny whole oc-
topus, and slices of squid, red
pepper and carrot lay pickled
beneath a lovely olive gil
vinaigrette.

me, the food they so revere: fresh -

pasta, fresh seafood, wild
mushrooms, virgin olive oils, fresh
herbs, proscuitto...

Appetizers at Cafe Roma are
concentrated in the $4 to $6 range;
pizzas are around $10; and pastas
g0 from $7 10 $10.

Main meat dishes stay below
$14.

Wine menu, with a strong offer-
ing of Italian bottles, sticks to the
mid-to-high teens.

Fresh from an afternoon's Expo
86 marathon, we tested a Crostini
Al Ginepro Con Pollo ($4.25) and
the Seafood Antipasto ($5.25), one
of the evening's half dozen
blackboard specials,

The Crostini featured strips of
chicken breast and small slices of
melba toast covered in a juniper
berry and fried chicken-liver mix-
ture. Both were surrounded with a

c.

1 PLUS 2

OB WK
ESPLANADE

The two appetizers were accom-
panied with basket-loads of Cafe
Roma's excellent homemade

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Just 1% blocks west
of the SeaBus,
on your way to
or from Expo.

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7 days a week. Free parking

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