— Wednesday, September 10, 1997 — North Shore News

OTHER IND
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i. LAMB, BEEF or $622
& les CHICKEN CURRY eg. $8.99
S-10 pm 7 eek

900 W. 16th, North Van.

Ph: 985-8860 Fax: 986-5546

Lo-C

Carmelo's Ristorante
Italiano, 1448 Marine Dr.,
.| West Vancouver, 922-4719.
Visa, MasterCard and.
American Express accepted.
Open every night for din-

- fer. for lunch
Monday to Friday, Fully
licensed.

options? AE Take the

kids or call a babysitter?
Call a babysitter.

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: OPEN EVERYDAY FOR

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Casey Marshall

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truly italian food!

“All pasta created
on the premises
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DINING

Menu for tonight:

© Glas of Orvieto ($5.25)

e Insalata di Capracalda
($7.95)

* Socca Arrabiata pizza
($11.95)

© Della Casa pizza ($11.753

J.C.’s pizzeria is cook-
ing.

And rightly so.

He’s turning out perhaps
the best example of real brick

-oven pizza north of the Inlet.

Make that south too.

It’s fate August and J.C.
Lo-Cicero’s brick oven is’
going full throtde. Throwing
a lot of heat.

It’s a full house ona
bright summer’s evening and
more diners are milling
around the frone door await-

ing their turn. J.C. is dabbing :

his brow with a house ‘servi-
ette.and graciously greeting
the waver of clientele washing
up at his’ Marine Drive door.
of course, they are not all
here for pizzas and beer.
This, after all, is Carmelo’s

—-a place of fine Italian din-. -

ing West Vancouver-style.
One of the finest, for sure.
cand to bea tight fit'in
armelo’s.
a ate would be the
polite term.
But J.C.’s place has been

” renewed.

Earlier this year, the gra-
cious West Vancouver restau-
rateur moved heaven and
earth (read: the bureaucracy
at West Vancouver district
hall) and expanded the 40-
seater east into a former
Persian carpet shop so that he
could bring real Italian brick
oven cooked pizza to the dis-
cerning folk of West :
Vancouver and double the
size of his fine trattoria.

Those who have had the

good f fortune to sample th the.
results of J.C.’s pizzerian:
labors will applaud those -
efforts with suitable gusto.

More so if they. know the *
-_ officious hoops and barrels he. r
had to hurdle to bring such |.”

culinary enlightenment west
of Taylor Way. And the initial
learning curve involving the
best wood to burn in the:
oven itself was more painful ~
than expected.

Hey. I promised not to
mention the seven months to
win approval for Carmelo’s:
expansion and brick oven.

addition and the'subsequent -

interminable testing of said
oven. What's a year in a
restaurateur’s life anyway?
Only an eternity. Ah well, the
wheels of bureaucracy grind
exceedingly fine. Your tax
dollars hard at work.

Pizza aside, the Carmelo’s
expansion has given J.C.’s
restaurant a whole new per-
sona.

More expansive; more
interesting; more lively.

And the grand new brick
oven pizza, manned by J.C.’s

brother Roberto, adds anoth- .

. Festaurant to stimulate’ the

gastric juices: Especiall

thar i ine is all expert ;

orchestrated and executed.
Carmelo’s main menu is ~ :

highly recommended and has

been chronicled in previous : .

Table Hopping dispatches. ~.”
But tonight, we are ere.

‘for the pizza, ‘mi amore

And that is feast enough” _
for. anyone...

Thin crust. Experth
cooked crisp on the outside-*
and hot and moist on the
inside. Feather light. - -

Topped with fresh i ingre- :
dients in combinations that ©
reflect the high culinary plane
aspired to elsewhere in™ -
Carmelo’s by the Lo- Cicero
brothers.

Carmelo’s pizza selection -
($10 to $12) includes 15
variations, from Napolitana

Moneta :
on her new profession in
Real Estate with Royal LePage
926-6077

me amoré

1560 marine drive, @

‘west vancouver
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