Wednesday, May 6, 1992 - North Shore News - 27

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MICHEL MAIS ouil...A seléction of French cuisine a ta Chez
Michel. The fine West Vancouver restaurant is now into its se-

cond decade.

W. Van’s Chez
Michel entices
with bistro fare

Chez Michel, Second Floor, 1373 Marine Dr., West Vancouver,
926-4913. Visa, Mastercard, American Express accepted. Open for
funch and dinner Tuesday to Saturday. Take the kids or call a

babysitter? Call a babysitter.

meatgrinder during their working weeks need a

T nes WHO have been through the mental

change of cranial furniture at weeks’ end.

How about a bottle of Bordeaux

and some good French cooking? A
. good start, non?

Add a view of the North Shore
harbor from a discreet second-
storey West Vancouver vantage
point and a host whose obliging
nature has established him as vir-
tually a French in-law to most of
his clientele, and the mental living
room is becoming extremely com-

The demons have been reduced
to hammering on the French doors
and howling through the keyhole
while you are led to your window
seat at Chez Michel.

Your hosts, mes amis, are the
gracious brothers Segur: Michel in
the dining room, Philippe in the
kitchen.

Chez Michel has, of course,
become a French dining fixture on
the North Shore. Its longevity
reflects its appeal and its ability to
maintain continuity through the
ups and downs of the restaurant
trade and through some major
Chez Michel personnet changes.

Two years ago, the restaurant
lost head chef Joseph Lassaga,
who had establishee the restau-
rant’s culinary reputation through
the 1980s. Lassaga was lured away
by the ownership of the short-lived
Sir Francis Caulfeild’s in the
Caulfeild shopping centre.

Timothy Renshaw
TABLE HOPPING

Last year, the restaurant lost
head waiter Christian Denaire,
Chez Michel's master of polished
and unobtrusive French service.

Denaire retired from the waiting
game, a calling that requires par-
ticipants to be pleasant and
subservient to all night after night,
and which is no piece of French
gateau, monsieur.

But Chez Michel has always
been Michel Segur’s restaurant.
His staff have added much to the
Chez Michel experience, but
Segur’s personality and gastro-
nomic philosophy have always
been integral to the restaurant's
success.

So the large kitchen shoes left by
Lassaga were filled ably by
Philippe, and the deft Gallic ser-
vice loafers hung up by Denaire
have been donned by a duo of

See Chez page 33

Parents ef Nerch Vancewves Band and Sisinas students

Will the music
continue in our
elementary schools
this September?

We have until Friday to decide.

ou recently received a letter

urging you to support emer-

gency funding for the North
Vancouver elementary schools band
and stings program.

We need your reply by this
Fridgy (May 8).

IF insufficient funds are re-
ceived, there will be no band and
strings program in North Vancouver
elementary schools this September.

That's a major loss to our
schools because 70% of grade five
students partidpated in the band and
strings program last year.

Few people agree with fee
payments in our public schools. But
the overwhelming majority of sec-
ondary and elementary music parents
canvassed have agreed to make this
one-time-only exception. That's be-
cause our multipie-award-winning
bands and strings groups provide life-
time skilis and treasured memories for
students.

A SPECIAL APPEAL
TO SECONDARY SCHOOL
PARENTS

Although thebandandstings
program has not been cut at the sec-
ondary level, elementary parents can-
not handle the full cost of saving the
program.

Itis vital thatsecondary school
parents also participate. (Remember,
the secondary schools’ strings pro-
gram was also threatened with elimi-
nation but now will continue to be
offered.)

In fact. this emergency fund-
ing program will not succeed without
total support from secondary school

And if the elementary school
program is cut, our present secondary
band and strings groups will be the
last of that calibre for a very long time.

if you haven’t returned your fee payment yet,
please write the cheque tonight
and deliver the envelope tomorrow.

pOVaNCay,
“9 *%

BAND GSIRINGS
GP

For more information: Mac D. Campbell, Chairman: 980-9740