26 - Wednesday, June 28, 1989 - North Shore News

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AS A CHANGE of pace,
‘Table Hopping staff recently
visited two ‘Big City’ res-
taurants that appear to be at
the head of the Vancouver
area dining table.

Both have attracted much
media attention, most of it
positive. So in the interests
of promoting gastronomic
imagination and culinary
talent, behold part one of
quick. Table Hopping sket-
‘ches of The Raintree and
Bishop’s. The Bishap’s

sketch will appear in next
week’s column.

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A STILL life of West Coast cuisine, featuring West Coast scallops,
prawas and crab alongside a herb-fried trout on a bed of kelp, is pres-
ented by The Raintree, The Vancouver restaurant features first-rate food

table hopping

THE RAINTREE, 1630 ALBERNI
STREET, VANCOUVER, 688-5570.
VISA, MASTERCARD AND
AMERICAN EXPRESS ACCEPTED.
WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE.
OPEN EVERY DAY FOR DINNER,
MONDAY TO FRIDAY FOR
LUNCH.

It serves a cuisine as clean and
vibrant as the Northwest Coast it
so proudly champions.

And The aintree is beginning to
educate Lower Mainland residents

of the great culinary potential that

surrounds us.

Restaurant ownership has spread
its clean and bright personality
well beyond Raintree’s kitchen.
The interior of the former Mother
Tucker's food experience is now
clean and bright with blue, tur-
quoise and soft pastels. Patrons
can also absorb a goad view of the
North Shore through The Rain-
tree’s northside floor-to-ceiling
windows.

The restaurant presents, in starr-
ing roles, the finest in Northwest
food and drink — Avalon dairy
products, Okanagan produce, B.C.
coast fish, Washington rack of
lamb and beer from such local
breweries as the North Shore’s
Horseshoe Bay Rrewing Ca. Ltd.

its wine list is made up almost
exclusively from California,
Oregon, Washington and B.C.
selections, and, for the practising
oenologist, many of those wines
are served by the glass.

Also available in a great variety
are martinis. Martiniophiles will be
twirling swizzle sticks like

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made from West Coast ingredients.

rangerettes over The Raintree’s
impressive martini roster — almost
three dozen selections, including
such bizarre combinations as
pepper vodka with jalapeno pep-
per and fresh oysters, and vodka
with cranberry and grapefruit
juice. Most are $4.95.

Ah, but here’s the waiter.

Dinner:

Appetizers: Grilled veal and
herb sausage ($4.95) fresh from
the Robson public market and
served with a subdued apple-pear
chutney. This is a wonderful varia-
tion on the all-teo-often monotone
appetizing theme. The sausages
are elegant with a slight spicy kick
that does not leave you burping
garlic for the next three days.

Entrees: Wild Spring Salmon

($14.75). It came wrapped in pale
green savoy cabbage and served
with a sweet sorrel cream sauce
that was visually enhanced with
yellow, red and green peppers.
Delicious and extremely moist.
The Raintree illustrates the late
Truman Capote’s gastronomically
astute observation — that quality
of vegetables separates the upper
from lower dining classes — by
providing each table with a
wonderfully colorful, fresh and
bright central dish of vegetables
igenous to the Northwest
Coast. The dish is refilled at no
cost and passed around the table,
giving vegetable consumption at

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