The Bridge House Restaurant, |
3650 Capilano Rd., North Van-
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TABLE HOPPING

RCTIC WINDS and
knee-high snow
A drifts call for hearty
soups, roaring fires and
stimulating conversations.

Or is that stimulating fires and
roaring conversations? As they say
on the sireet when faced with any
challenging decision: Whatever.

Buffeted by aforesaid January
winds, Table Hopping staff donn-
ed heavy-weather dining gear and
charted a course for the Bridge ,
House Restaurant — which was
formerly the Hobbit House, which
was formerly .the digs of Henri

. Aubeneau, which was still more’
formerly the matrimonial nest of
Elizabeth and Archibald “‘Mac”’

‘MacEachern.

That’s a whole fot of formeriys
‘for.one house, but its past adds
-greatly to the atmosphere of the

8ridge House. And the stately log
house, trimmed in white Christmas
fights and-surrounded in deep
January snow, is a picturesque
destination on a chill winter's eve.

That chill and the accompanying
snow banks played havoc with

‘Table Hopping’s traditional formal
evening attire, but once inside the
Bridge House, with its blazing liv-
ing roorn fire and the interna
familial warmth of Mac's old

‘ Capilano Suspension Bridge resi-
dence, chills and mukluks were
soon dispatched.

- Of course, building standards
were a little different back in

~“Mac’s day.

Our Bridge House window seat,
distant from the fireplace, pres-
ented us with a picture-postcard

~-view.of the restaurant's snow-
bound garden, but it also exposed

- us to uncomfortable drafts from

‘the Tudor windows.

. BRIDGE HOUSE HELLO... Lutz

NEWS photo Paul McGrath

Wolff, manager of the Bridge

House, offers a toast to patrons of the North Vancouver restau-

rant. .

Double glazing being a term for
dipping too deeply into the whisky
jug back in the roaring ‘20s.

Noting our discomfort, the con-
genial Bridge House staff moved
11s to a table adjacent to a heating -
duct. .

Suitably thawed, we ordereda
Tyrrell’s Long Flat Red ($19.90, for
a full-flavored wine made with a
combination of hermitage, malbec
and cabernet grapes} and waded
into the Bridge House menu,
which has been overhauled since
the last Table Hopping visit.

A Vegetarian section has been
added ($11.50 to $11.95 — the

. trio includes Vegetable Stuffed

Romaine Rolls and Grilled

- Vegetables with Wild Rice Cakes

and a Spicy Tomato Jam), but the
restaurant’s kitchen still focuses on
hearty red-meat dishes (Filet
Bridge House, $18.50; Loin of
Veal Forester, $16.95; Filet of Pork
Bridget, $14.95; Roasted Beef
Tenderloin Chateaubriand, $42)
and assorted seafood (Tiger
Prawns Capilano, $17.95) and
poultry (Duckling Elizabeth,
$16.95) entrees.

There is nothing particularly
flamboyant or daring about the
Bridge House menu, but the meals
are good value, and they are
skilfully prepared. :

An evening's special Minestrone
Soup ($3.50) had a soul-warming,
robust garlic chicken stock thick
with vegetables, garbanzo beans
and chunks of chicken.

Bolstering the above were fla-
vors of aiive oil, oregano and
parsley and fashings of ground

See Meals page 26

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