Timothy Renshaw
TABLE HOPPING

L’Arte del Gelato, 1441 Marine
Dr., West Vancouver. 925-4133.
No credit cards accepted. Cash
only. Open from 12:30 p.m.
everyday. Take the kids or call a
babysitter? Take all the kids.

Menu for today

© Single Frage’. in a regular cone
($2.25)

# Single Cocco in a wattle cone
($2.75)

2 Single Stracciattella in a waffle
cone ($2.75)

NSTALMENT No. 125 in

Table Hopping’s 1994 surn-

mer dining series. This
week: beach desserts.

Tip No. 1: Sand does not mix
well with creme caramel, pecan
pie, Death By Chocolate or any
other sweet aprés entrée item.

Tip No. 2: Children combined
with sand in any proportions will
result in varying amounts of sand
ending up in anything edible with-
in a 50-metre radius.

Tip No. 3: When dining out
incorporates a takeout meal, pur-
chased perhaps at Capers’ excel-
lent delicatessen and consumed at
a nearby West Vancouver beach,
participants should plan on
searching out desseris at a location
far from any sand-covered beach-
like surfaces — L‘Arte del Gelato,
for example.

In this authentic Italian gelato
emporium, beach bums, Italian-
style bicycle racers, Table
Hoppers, summer dessert seekers
and other discerning diners can
digest any number of scoops of
real Italian gelato (ice-cream for
the chronically unilingual) from
the menu of grand gelatorian
Gianni Bombelli.

L’Arte has been in West
Vancouver for about three years
and its profile among ice-cream
aficionados continues to rise.

But it has not always been thus.
ice-cream, you see, is taken far
more seriously in Italy than it is in
Tiddlycove.

Or was.

Through L‘Arte, Bombelli has
spearheaded the education of the
gelato-illiterate folk of the North
Shore to the finer characteristics of
ice-cream Italian-style.

When he first opened L’Arte,
Bombelli says price was the over-
riding concern for local ice-cream
eaters.

His gelatos were more expen-
sive than those of competing ice-
cream parlors, ' where dollops of
commercial ice-cream heaped
upon cones sold on the strength of
heft alone. The subtleties of fine
gelatos were known to few north
of Burrard Inlet.

But Bombelli, who spent many
years in his native Italy selling ice-
cream-making machinery and oth-
enwise immersed in that country’s
gelato mystique before taking the
plunge in West Vancouver and
opening his own gelato parlor,
persevered.

Quality, he figured, would pre-
vail. Andi it has.

lian gelato
beats the summer heat

NEWS photo Paul McGrath

MONDO GELATO ... Michelle Quilici (front), Gianni Bombelli
(centre) and Ruben Vivar present a heap of italian ice cream at
West Varicouver’s L’Arie dei Gelato.

L’Arte’s gelatos (there are about
two dozen varieties ranging from
mango to fruitti di bosco to
tiramisu, marzapane, cioccolato
and pistacchio) are all made on
the premises using natural ingredi-
ents: eggs, egg yolks, cream, fresh
fruit and fresh fruit juices, milk and
dextrose.

They contain less fat (from 0%
for limone to 9% for hazelnut) and
Jess sugar than regular commercial
ice-creams.

They also contain no preserva-
tives and “no air,” which Bombelli

says is whipped into regulation
ice-cream in copious amounts.

Good and good for you, sayeth
Signoro Bombelli, especially for
bicycle racers and other athletic
folk.

But enough techno-gelato pat-
ter: into the ice-cream.

Regular cones at L “Arte are
$2.25 for a single and $3.25 for a
double scoop; Waffle cones are
$2.75 for single and $3.75 fora
double. A %-litre family pack goes

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