22 - Wednesday, April 5,

1989 - North Shore News

A MEETING of Sambuca czars... Queens Cross co-owners Dave Raht
(left) and Ron Slinger (right) made a special presentation recently to
Count Franco Luxardo, whose family produces the anise-flavored
liqueur. The popular North Shore neighborhood pub has one of its
Sambuca drink recipes featured on Sambuca bottle labels. The
presentation plaque features a News photo.

NEWS photo Cindy Bellamy

International gourmets
will host food festival

SODDEN LOCALS: please behold some light and dry selec-
tions of restaurant news for your consumption while the
rain drips from hat brims and umbrellas. The regular res-
taurant review will appear in next week’s column, at which
time the sun is sure to be causing steam to rise from all your

belongings.

THE QUEENS CROSS
NEIGHBORHOOD PUB, 2989
LONSDALE AVENUE, NORTH.
VANCOUVER, 980-7715 ,

Count Franco Luxardo, head of
the Italian family that has for gen-
erations produced the interna-
tionally popular Sambuca liqueur
for fun and profit, recently visited
the locally popular Cross to
receive an official presentation
from pub owners Dave Raht and
Ron Slinger.

The count and the Cross, a West
Coast Sambuca mecca, have forg-
ed a strong relationship over the

ears based on mutal admiration
lor the medicinal powers of the
anise-flavored liqueur.

RENSHAW

table hopping .

Italian Coffee, a recipe combin-
ing Sambuca, Tia Maria, coffee,
whipped cream and grated lico-
rice, isa Queens Cross original,
whose qualities have earned it a
permanent place on the liqueur’s
list of recipes that comes on each
bottle,

And while you are sampling an
Italian, don’t forget the Cross’s
kitchen. It turns out some of the
best and most interesting pub food
on the North Shore: Enchilada
Santa Fe, for example, features
breast of chicken in a mild chili
sauce wrapped in a tortilla and
topped with two cheeses ($6.95);
or fill up on an order of Mrs.
Carter's Meatloaf ($5.95), a
neighborhood favorite that origi-
nates with chef Charles Carter’s
mother.

Elsewhere on the menu is a wide
range of Far East, Far West,
Southeast and Southwest grub.
VIVA '89, THE VANCCUVER
TRADE AND CONVENTION
CENTRE, 200-999 CANADA
PLACE, VANCOUVER, 641-1987

Held alongside the annual Van-
couver Playhouse International
Wine Festival, which will be into
its 11th annual, Viva ‘89 will
feature its own annual celebration
of food from around the world
” during its April 27 to 30 run.

On the grill, in addition to a
worldwide food selection, will be
a host of international foodophiles
and gourmets including television

* chef and cookbook author Jeff

Smith, aka The Frugal Gourmet.
Smith wilt perform some dining
demos and present recipes from
his upcoming cookbook The
Frugal Gourmet on Three Ancient
Cuisines.
A full menu selection of other

_ WHY PAY FU

gourmets, frugal and not so frugal,
will also attend throughout the
food festival.

Tickets are $7 at the door, but
will be available prior to opening
day for $4.50 at Canada Safeway
stores.

THE VANCOUVER PLAYHOUSE
1989 INTERNATIONAL WINE
FESTIVAL, ALSO AT THE VAN-
COUVER TRADE AND CON-
VENTION CENTRE, SEE ABOVE.
FOR TICKETS: 873-3311

Offered this year from April 26
to 30 at the always interesting, ab-

sorbing and educational festival of °

international viticulture will be
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