sreek From page 16 Lonsdale. Vavaris subsequently bought out the restaurant's other two partners and, in 1975, turned it into the thriving Delo’s pizza and pasta house. The operation brought him and his young family much pros- perity. He moved from Lower Lonsdale to the British Properties. He also moved uptown from his restaurant roots. It was one move too many. In the early 1980s he undertook what proved to be his financial downfall: the renovation of the . Emerald Park Lodge on east 3rd Street. _ After investing hundreds of thousands in restoring the old Hamersley house to Edwardian splendor, he got caugnt in the crash ‘of ‘83 and fost everything. _. +, But, as mentioned at the outset, this Vavaris chap has staying power. :'Ten years ago, he secured a lease for the old Coronation Block ground floor, better known as the birth place of the lucrative Keg and .. Cleaver restaurant chain. .. The result was Your Place or . Mine, which begat The Great Greek, which begat Nick's Place and which is about to begat the - - Coronation Bar and Grill nei ighbor- hood pub,’ . “; And it is none too soon for. - Nick's and Nick himself, Both are . wom and weary.’ .The push for a pub hicenice _ approval has taken Vavaris through city: hall rejections, controversial “Lower Lonsdale pub polls and assorted neighborhood protests. . But he and a team of three - _dewyers have persevered. -: So in late February or early " March, ‘with an agreement to maia-'° to go tain the heritage aspects of the Coronation Block completed, Vavaris will be given the green fight to sink another $500,000 into a badly needed renovation that should turn Nick's Place into a prosperous British-style neighbor- hood pub. The plan will not allow for any Greek bouzouki bar or tapas grill. It will not allow for much Greek at all. The building's heritage require- ments dictate that the Coronation Biock’s persona remain British. Vavaris, however, will be at the helm of the new British venture, and the change of cultural pace should inject new energy into the - Vavaris psyche. In the Coronation Block's base- ment, Vavaris plans to develop a small bistro that would be separate from the pub and would open onto the busy courtyard leading to the Lonsdale Quay. But until then Nick's Place remains a Greek taverna, and in the best traditions of close-out sales everywhere, the dining bargains will be many. Currently on the menu are such items as full Roast Lamb dinner for $10.95 and full Souviaki dinner for $8.95 — a final buoyant Mediterranean blowout to get the Greek cuisine out of his system before the Great Greek becomes a British publican. Or a Greek publican amid British decor. No matter the combination, the pleasure will be in the siring of another colorful cultural slice of Corfu for Lower Lonsdale. Another piece of the Great Greek to digest. Out of the nether world and back into the real world. 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