ROMANCE JS back with a
capital 8 in Kitsilano
thanks to that never-say-dic
West Van entrepreneur,
Sam Yehia.

JOY TELLS ALL

Buena Vista is the new ‘‘in’’
’ place in Kits that Sammy has,
brought to fruition.

Sam has had a long string of
successful operations including the
_ New York Cafe, he ran the Inter-

‘ national Plaza’s Plazazz when
they were featuring jazz, he had

Sami’s Restaurant on Cornwall

and then leased it out to a consor-
ctium of stockbrokers to become
«: Senor. Frog’s and he still has Doll

& Penny's restaurant in the West
End.

Buena Vista is a Latin Bodego
with a tapas-style menu, daily
fresh sheets and wonderful
sangria, Plus sexy Latin rhythms
for dancing!

It’s directly across from Kits
Beach and would be just perfect
for patio dining, though Sammy
always seems to be in the dog-
house with city hall...

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The summit was a very busy
time for every journalist and .
reporter in town as well as Food
& Beverage director Edel Forristat
and her hard-working crew down
at summit central, the Vancouver
Trade and Convention Centre.

Real estate consultant Brian
Calder put the Britannia cruise
together on Friday along with
wonderful food by North Van’s
Julie Burke and her Everything
Done Right Caterers, free riineral
water, T-shirts and lots of enter-
tainment.

The Brava Quartet of the Sweet
Adelines performed beautifully, as
did Lance Hifrrison and his Dix-
ieland Band.

Over at Michael Kaile’s Water-
front Centre Hotel, Prime
Minister Mulroney and his wife,
Mila, hosted an intimate dinner in
the Royal Suite on Friday night
with special guests, the Hons.
Barbara McDougall and Don

AMERICAN PRODUCER Ray Cullin and Angelica Butler at a din-

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‘Convention Centre’s food and
“beverage. director, Edel For-

=; ristal, was kept very busy dur-

‘ing the Summit.

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grand opening of his new. Kit-
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WEST VAN’S Diana Becker (second from left) and her team made 500 tast-minute funches for

Summit media folk, impressing PM Brian Mulroney. Team members from left are Connie O’Brien, .
Christine Donaghy and Ann Merling. :

Mazankowski.

In another part of the same
hotel, Crash Test Duminies were
really living it up...

Lisa Williams, the new PR at
Mark Andrew’s Hyatt Regency,
was enjoying the summit doings.

U.S. President Clinton and his
entourage were staying at the
largest hotel in town and Lisa was
invited to ride in the press van
with reporters from the Chicago
Tribune, Newsweek, Time maga-
zine, USA Today and the ABC
News crew to cover President
Clinton’s early-morning jog
around Stanley Park.

But the real excitement for Lisa
was in organizing a dessert and
coffee party in President Clinton’s
suite following his dinner at Brent
Davies’ Seasons In the Park res-
taurant.’

He’d invited some very VIP
guests to his private affair,

Hollywood’s Richard Dreyfuss

’ attended, as did Sharon Stone,

super-model Cindy Crawford and
her ultra-casual husband, Richard
Gere.

Since Bill Clinton doesn't drink,
his people supplied a new mineral
water called — wait forit!—
**Absolutely American’!

{s that to counter our Clearly
Canadian?

Absolutely American, I’m told,
will be launched officially in the
next few weeks.

I also enjoyed’a delightful din-
ner with a number of interesting

_ Summit guests on Friday evening

at the poshy Five Sails Restaurant
in the Pan Pacific Hotel.

The dinner was hosted by PR
man Tony Butler and his petite
wife, Angelica. ,

We were joined by NBC’s ‘West
Coast Nightly News with. Tom

. Brokaw producer Ray Cuillin, who

was in from Burbank along with
Ray’s senior producer, Kathy
Riggins, who was in from Los
Angeles...

Another pretty ecstatic person
was Dubrulles’ French Culinary

_ School’s Diana Becker of West

Van.

She and her team had provided
all of the box lunches for the 500
media folk, covering the leaders’
meeting at Norman Mackenzie .
House at UBC.

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gins, with BCTV’s Tony Parsons at the Five Sails Restaurant in Poe
the Pacific Hotel.

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the lunches and Diana and her and her team and posed for

people pulled it off well. photos with them. ;
The PM was so impressed with : ; . :

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