Crossings Restaurant, 157
Chadwick Crt., North Van-
couver, 987-4610. Visa, Master-
card, American Express ac-
cepted. Take the kids or call a
babysitter? Call a babysitter.

ROSSINGS IS fast

approaching a fork

in the dining road
ahead, and it’s not from a
wayward table setting.

Timothy Renshaw
TABLE HOPPING

The restaurant opened in late
1987 with balloons, streamers, of-
ficial speeches and mayoral rib-
bon-cuttings.

Its full name was the Pacific
Orient Line Crossings Restaurant,
and it came outfitted with a full
sushi bar, an upstairs first-class
cruise-ship dining motif and a
lower-deck steerage-class light
snacks bistro and bar.

The vessel was proudly skip-
pered by Peter lacus, former part-
ner in Vancouver's Fresgo Inn.

Culinary voyages departed daily
from Crossings’ location at the en-
trance to the North Shore SeaBus
station.

And those voyages continue to-
day. But after almost five years of
plying the often stormy waters of
the local restaurant trade, Cross-
ings is in need of a refit.

The sushi bar, for example, was
lost at sea in one of Crossings’
earlier voyages.

The carpets leading to the first-
class dining deck are showing
some signs of wear, and the res-

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CAPTAIN CROSSINGS...Peter lacus readying his Crossings res-
taurant for new a new culinary course.

taurant’s menu is getting tired.

But lacus is not the type of skip-
per to abandon ship and leave his
passengers and crew to fight over
the remaining lifeboats.

He has, instead, chosen to chart
a new course.

And for all those who appreciate
the restaurant’s great harborside
location and who lament the
dearth of late-night cappuccino
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Vancouver, that new course wilt
sound extremely promising.
During a Table Hopping meal at
Crossings in late February, lacus,
decked out in kitchen whites,
outlined his plans to transform his
restaurant from a purveyor of
big-plate entrees to a split-level
bistro combining some of the
elements that have made Star-
bucks and the Bread Garden such

‘runaway successes in the ‘90s.

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