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28 — Wednesday, September 30, 1998 — North Shore News

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NEWS photo Brad Ledwidge

GAMBRINUS GUYS ... Owner Sandor Szendrei (left) and chef Claude Croteau in their new Gambrinus restau-
rant in North Vancouver's Queensbury area.

Nick’s Place is no longer Nick’s

From page 27

- Salmon and a trio of pastas

(penne, linguini, fertuccine)
with a choice of six sauccs.

A sampled appetizer plate
of Tiger Prawns presented
five thick prawns sauteed in
a garlic and white wine sauce
and accompanied with fresh
chopped tomatoes, large
chunks of Greek feta cheese
and herbs.

Add a squeeze of fresh
lemon and consume with
equal parts tresh bread ralls
and gusto.

Wash all of the above
down with a chilled glass of
Caliboro Sauvignon Blanc,
which, for a house white, is
not bad ae all.

Unfortunately, Gambrinus
thus far effers only a single
white and red (Caliboro mer-
lor) by the glass. Szendrei,

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* Monday to Thursday only, 2 p.m. to closing
© Horseshoe Bay location only

© Not valid with other promotional offers

With this coupen, buy the first entree, and receive
@ second entree of equal or lesser value -

however, promises to expand
his wine selection (currently
18 bottles — $18 to $30)
and his selection of wines by
the glass.

Martini fans will appreci-
ate the restaurant's list of 40-
odd martinis ($5 cach) rang-
ing from the Dean Martini to
Lucy in the Sky with
Diamonds.

Entrees sampled included
grilled duck breast finished in
a mildly tropical Jack Danicls
and mango sauce.

Tt was a full-plate affair.
Accompaniment included
lashings of mashed portato
and a good varicty of house
vegetables: slice of baked
acorn squash, pureed carrot,
grilled red pepper, a wheel of
steamed yellow zucchini,
sauteed green beans and a
melange of corn niblets and
chopped red peppers.

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Desserts are more than an
afterthought at Gambrinus.

Chocolate Mousse, creme
caramel, fresh sorbets, cob-
blers and more.

If you have room after
your entree, I suggest sam-
pling a swect.

Our peach and blueberry
cobbler featured a hefty por-
tion topped with a wallop of
vanilla ice cream.

Owner Szendrei provides
service that is at once atten-
tive and obsessively polite.

Call him the Count of
Courtesy. The regal lineage
continues.

All hail King Gambrinus.

: 909
Nick’s Place, 107
Esplanade, North
Vancouver, 986-6211.

Nort any more, I’m afraid.

Nick “the Great Greek”
Vavaris has run out of track

* California Maki
* BC. Roll

* Tekka Maki

* Salon Maki

* Kappa Moki

¢ Fato Maki © Sunomona
* Salmon € Goma ye
* Tana ® Gyoza

® Imitation Crab

* Red Snapper

* Tamago

in his drive to secure a neigh-
bourhood pub licence for his
Nick’s Place restaurant.

He will be evicted today
from his Esplanade location.

The once feisty, now
weary, Greck has run various
incarnations of his
Mediterrancan restaurant in
the old Keg and Cleaver loca-
tion since 1986.

He has spent the better
part of this decade battling
city hall over the neighbour-
heod pub licence issue.

But the battle is over.
Nick’s Place is set to be
replaced by something called
the Piece of Cake Emporium.

Vavaris’ plans for the
future are up in the air.

But at this poine they are
less than inspiring.

as the Great Greek says,
“Who's going | to tal :
you when you're broke?

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per person

* Salmon Teriyaki

* Special Scallop Cone * Chicken Karaage
# Spicy Tuna Cone
® Salmon Sashimi
@ Tana Sashimi

¢ Tha Karaage

® Agedashi Tofu

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. + Obst er Motoyaki

* Chicken Teriyaki
* Beef Teriyaki

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