West Van

- From page 30

You can only turn up the
Greek music so loud to
compensate for lack of
kitchen finesse.

Olympia Sasted for less
than a year before its princi-
pals departed for new dining

a adventures in lands

B- unknown.

“ Zorba (aka Peter
Kavouras) took over the
Olympia in. March and sunk
-$35,000 and five weeks into
repairing che renovation

‘ounds inflicted on the
Saffron.

Gone are the gaudy

reck appendages and the
crawling green vines applied
= to the restaurant’s walls by

‘the Olympians.

» Asimple interior of
white-wash, deep green and
chimney red tones sur-
rounds wood grain chairs
and tables and vases of fresh
‘flowers.

2) The restaurant’s entrance
now opens into the middle
of its dining room, not the
‘thin east-end corridor that
‘served as the restaurant’s
original entrance.

Tris a much- ‘improved
location.

But, then, Kavouras did
not have a tough act to fol-
low.

i:, He subsequently chris-
tened his restaurant Ariston
d opened it on April 6.

~The name, roughly trans-
lated from Greek, means

rfect, or 100%, or the

st, depending on your

cient Greek dictionary.

‘Kavouras is nothing if
not optimistic..

: Out. of the gate, his

rant has some good
ities, buc it is far from
up to its name.
¢ will cell whether it
me close.
ts Opening week it
still ironing out the
ean ke Us

APPETIZING ARISTON ...

NEWS photo Paul McGrath
A selection of cold and hot appetizer platters present-

ed at West Vancouver's Ariston Greek restaurant.

many wrinkles that come
with opening a new restau-
rant, regardless of how
many you have opened in
the past and how much
experience you might have.

Zorba’s operated for
three and a half years at its
530 Hornby St. locale

See Ariston page 32

Lunch Value $6.00, Dinner value $12.00

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