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THE following are
excerpts from Eat This:
Confessions of a
Professional Diner —a
novel-in-progress
chronicling high-calorie
adventures in the din-
ing trade.

Sensitive readers be
forewarned: salty lan-
guage and off-color
antics to follow:

“Unexpected interval of
sunshine in the February
gloom sparks necd for high
energy diversion.

Table Hopping bus fully
tuclled. Staff fully seathelted,
napkins on, teeth sharpened,
cork screws at the ready,
palates cleansed. Map on the
dash.

This is The End, my
friend.

Wot rot, Renshaw! Get on
with it.

Stick a sock in it, vou ar
the back af the bus; and
Arthur, if vou please, put it in
gear.

The End it is. Fittingly at
the southern end of Lonsdale
(No. 15 to be exact, 984-
4685), the bese place for the
Table Hopping bus to be
headed. Uphill is hard on the
aging machinery,

The beginning of The End
was back in fanuary 1995,
when Endmen Andrew chef Andy Butler.

Harris and Jodie Graham Out with The End, read-
moved their West End End crs?
to the North Shore — bring- Far from it.

ing with them a genuine slice More like a new begin-

of modern culinary bohemia. — ning. Butler has had the

The Living End, man! good sense to retain the

But the original Endmen quirky feel of the original.
have since moved on. It remains a place of intor-

Now operating the cate’s mal food, live music (or is
Black light switch is current thac live food and informal
End owner Jacquie Butler, music? check notes) and low

the wife of Chesa restaurant

“Best Szechuan
in the City”

CORA. COURT
SZECHUAN CUISINE

230 Lonsdate
N. Vancouver
987-3303

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« Meat & Seafood
Hot Pot

* Diced Chicken
with Chili & Garlic
Sauce

+ Chicken with 3
types of Mushroom

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Entrées served with
Hot & Sour Soup

or Wonton Soup and
Steamed Rice

FREE DISH

Spare Ribs or Boneless Pork

Choose from:
¢ Sweet & Sour
* Honey Garlic
* Dry Garlic & Spicy
With purchase of $25 or more.
Dine-in only. Valid only until April 6/98

wattage fighting. Creaky
wooden floors. Walls boldly
painted with dark colors. Art
tor sale affixed thereon.
Modern beatnik motif. Beer
bottle chandeliers and beer
bottle candle holders. Could
this be a theme?

And what the devil is that
on the soundtrack? The
Doors? Live? High volume,
low appeal. Unless, of course,
you have imbibed a moad-
altering substance.

It’s all part of the package.

As is the small stage built
atop the kitchen from which

NEWS photo Mike Wakefield

ENDZONE ... Jacquie Butler, the owner of The End, in her Lower Lonsdale cafe.

height blues and folk singers
can entertain the cate’s din-
ers.

And trom under the stage?

A small kitchen that
churns out a dead simple sin-
gle sheet selection of Appies,
Soups and Salads ($4 to $11
— nachos, humus, chicken
chimichanga, ete.), Pizza,
Pasta and Burgers ($7 to $10
~~ a quartet, a trio and a cou-
ple. Go for The End pizza. It
comes with chicken, roasted
garlic, black olives, bell pep-

See Savoring puge 33

Special This Week

Shore plate, crab cake,
oyster, salmon and shrimp

Rosemary roast lamb

Schnitzel, viennese style

$11.95
$11.95
$10.95

Breast of chicken, cordon bleu $10.95

Calves liver, glazed onions

$9.95

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