Timothy Renshaw
TABLE HOPPING

Pastameli of New York, 700-
2601 Westview Dr., North
Vancouver, 980-3555. Visa,
MasterCard and American
Express accepted. Cipen every-
day from 10 a.m. Take the kids
or call a babysitter? Take the
ids.

Menu for tonight:

° Glass .of. Sangiovese
Romagna Giacondi ($3.95)
Caesar Salad ($3.95)

® Minestrone Soup ($3.25) .
*Inferno pizza (medium, $13.95)

° Basic pizza (medium, $9 70)

ESTVIEW shopping .

centre, the best’
place on the North .
Shore to practise manoeu-
-vring your vehicle in close
urban quarters, ‘is steadily
- adding new depth to its gas-
tronomic personality. -

Not many years ago, shoppers
. would have been lucky to secure
some Chinese food or asimple
deli sandwich from the shopping
centre on the northwest corner of
the Upper Levels Highway and
Westview Drive.

. ‘Today, however, they’ve got
their choice of Chinese (from the
Silver Lake restaurant), Japanese
(Bara’s, right by the video shop,

. Steak and Salad Bar (Sizzler) and
pizza (Westview Pizza).

~ + As of mid-October, the dexter-
ous Westview driving folk had
pasta and more pizza added to
their shopping centre dinin
menu courtesy of Pastamell of
New York,

’. Pastameli of Robson Street
might be more accurate, that
heppest of hep Vancouver City
cruising strips being the birth

: place of the original Pastameli
"pasta deli back in 1983. .

_ ~~ The Pastameli empire-has
been built.on the solid founda-

tion of fresh Italian carbohydrates. °
‘topped with a liberal helping of ~

good quality homemade sauces.

It began as a take-out deli,

then evolved into an optional
‘take-out or eat-in diner and has

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l’s pizza an

continued to thrive as a ’90s fast
food, fast exit hybrid.

The Caulfeild wing of
Pastameli opened in the
Something Special shopping cen-
tre in 1987,

Its combination of simple
good quality Italian fast food and
warm informal New York style
pizzeria atmosphere has estab-
ished it as a popular neighbor-
hood eatery ina high-altitude,
high-income area that has been
far less welcoming to several
more serious restaurants.

The North Vancouver version
of Pastameli is less ambitious
than its Caulfeild cousin. Its
menu is smafler and its interior
more spartan but it still manages
to turn out the basic and appeal-
ing Pastameli goods,

The Westview Pastamell is fast-

food functional: a halt-dezen
solid wooden booths running
parallel to a serve-yourself
counter, manned by a youthful
staff.

Whereas the Caulfeild
Pastameli ventures into more
complex dishes such as Osso
Bucco, Veal Marsala and
Chicken Cacciatore, Westview
sticks to the ground-level blue-
collar crowd pleasers: cappucci-
nos and sandwiches ($2 to $6);
pasta ($7 to $9 for dishes ranging
from Spaghetti with Meat Sauce
to Veal Cannelloni); and pizza
($7 to $17).

Our Caesar salad was plugged

with fat homemade croutons, and

the Inferno pizza we sampled
packed a capicollo and jalapeno
wallop that immediately fired sal-
low urban complexions with a

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NEWS photo Nell Lucante

PIZZA, ANYONE? ... Scott Meli of the new Pastameli of New
York pasta and pizza deli in North Vanccuver’z Westview
Shopping Centre presents an extra-large pizza.

STAURANT
Merry Christmas &
Happy New Year

4 RESTAURANT
awards
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vibrant incandescent glow.

It also sent us scurrying fora
tumbler of some chilled malted
beverage, which is available on
tap ($2.95 for Molson Canadian)
and which, along with glasses of
red and white Giacondi, consti-
tutes the Westview Pastameli’s
entire selection of ferrnented bev-
erages.

But, of course, diners are not
here to sniff corks or nase the
vapors of exclusive cognacs.

practice

They are here to revitalize
weary city souls with some hot
and hearty Italian food served
quick ancl to the point.

Pastameli delivers that combi-
nation with a minimum of
unwanted extras.

It's not fancy and it’s not for-
mal, but the new North
Vancouver Pastameli offers
pizza, pasta and parking practice:
an unbeatable Westview shop-
ping centre combination.

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