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-aboard a massive round plate that
-included small dishes of cheese,

Entertainment.

Exotic poblano sauce found at restaurant

From page 16

Prices do not run much beyond
$11 for entrees. The appetizer
selection ($4 to $6) has the man-
datory Nachos ($4.85) offering,
but also includes such less common
Mexican finger food as Fiautas
($4.75), a deep-fried chicken or
beef taco served with guacamole
and sour cream, or Enpanadas
($3.95), tortillas stuffed with
cheese, deep-fried and presented
with hot sauce.

My wife and I, members of the
North Shore’s unofficial Mexican
food fan club that has been
without local Mexican food repre-
sentation since Cisco’s closed,
ordered a Mole Poblano and a
beef Fajita (both $8.25) from the
main entree specialty section.

I settled in for the promised wait
with a bottle of Sol ($2.95), a good
Mexican beer in the real tall-neck-
ed bottle tradition of Corona,
while my wife waded into a special
Raspberry Margarita ($2.60), the
drink available in any
number of exotic flavors and sizes.

Entrees delivered to surrounding
tables received ovations that varied
in’enthusiasm depending on length
of customer wait.

Our Fajita, marinated and
came

chopped tomato, lettuce, hot

. pickled peppers, sour cream and
guacamole.

Though fried with an assortment
of onions and red and green pep-
pers, the meat was a trifle bland.

-Eut, combined with the stack of
- accompanying tortillas and other

accoutrements that can be used to
make hearty tubular sandwiches, it

“-made.a satisfying meal.
““ The Niole .came with orange- .

tinted rice and a generous portion
of creamy refried beans topped
with melted cheese.

Poblano sauce is peculiar to
Mexican cuisine and its discovery
has been credited to divine culinary

‘inspiration beamed down to the
“ convent of Santa Rosa in 16th-

century Puebla.

The original sauce is a blend of
29 ingredients, including cumin,
coriander, anise, chocolate and
chile, and takes a day to prepare.

The Fiesta’s thick, brown
Poblano sauce came served over a
breast of chicken.

It hada pleasant flavor, though
not as complex as some, and a
slightly spicy bite.

Fiesta Mexicana has, as does any
new restaurant, organizational
bugs to iron out of its system, but
it appears to have the right Mex-
ican blend of music and food
needed to make it a permanent fix-
ture on the North Shore, which
will be much to the relief of North
Shore Mexican food devotees.

Open from 11:30 a.m. Monday
to Saturday and from 4 p.m. to
10:30 p.m. Sunday.

TASTY MORSELS
WINDOWS, THE INTERNA-
TIONAL PLAZA HOTEL, 1999
MARINE DR,NORTH VAN-
COUVER, 980-7080.

The B.C. cuisine featured by
Plaza’s main restaurant was
beckoned east to Toronto and into
the kitchens of the posh Sutton
Place Hotel during the last week of
May.

Easterners, always curious about
the quaint grub consumed in the
Far West, sampled such B.C.
selections as Saltspring Island
Lamb, Aldergrove Pheasant with

. Oyster Mushrooms and Pacific

Red Snapper with Grain Mustard
Sauce and Sea Urchin Subric in the
hotel’s Sanssouci dining room.
Windows’ executive chef Bruce
Milligan accompanied his Tecipes
to the Sutton to make sure they
were not defiled with maple syrup,
Niagara Peninsula wines or other
eastern culinary staple. He_in-
structed the hotel’s head chef Niels
Kjeldsen in the finer points of

West Coast cuisine, which was
served to curious Ontarians for
junch and dinner.

TUGS PUB AT THE LONSDALE
QUAY HOTEL, 123 CARRIE
CATES COURT, 986-6111

The '50s-style pub was closed
from May 17 to 24 while the
Lonsdale Quay Hotel invested
$50,000 in a pub overhaul.

Included in renovations to the
neon-lit centre of waterfall

This Tuesday's Evening Special

Impozted North Sea Plaice

Sauteed in wine with
shrimp and mussels.

5895

* Open Daily from llam * Serving Lunch and Dinner ¢

2nd Flcor on the watertront
at Lonsdale Quay Market

987-3322

“Fine Italian Cuisine” |

Now Carmelo’s Ristorante

Italiano is open for LUNCH
RAVIOLI & Wild Mushroom Sauce 6°

TRENETTE AL PESTO
DAILY SPECIAL

(includes soup)

1428 Marine Dr.
fk West Vancouver, B.C.
: 922-4719

Greek Salad Roast Potatoes Garlic Bread

we SPECIAL $8.95

Belly Dancing Fri. & Sat. eve.

en 2422 MARINE DRIVE, WEST VANCOUVER
‘ Reservations, Ph. 922-5751
We cater to groups.

SEAFOOD & CONTINENTAL MENU

Daily
Sun.
Sunday Brunch

1362 Marine Drive

West Vancouver, B.C. V7T 1B5

11 am-10pm

9am - 8:30 pm

9am-3pm

925-1945
Licensed Premises

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expanded seating in the pub’s

new carpets, booths and a new dance floor.

‘Aa Exotic ‘Safari jato the
” Heart of Fine East African Indian Cuisine

Father's Day Open ipm
Special Buffet
Special Children's Meals
S OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK
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984-2775 |

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