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- “CR restaurant
2 Marine Bana Westvanco™™

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every friday in this week

- Chrisonas, Eve Menu

5pm-9pm

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* Holiday Ice Cream eggnog, candy cane sauce
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Coffee or Tea
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Chocolates

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Van's Zen

Zen Japanese Restaurant,
2232 Marine Dr., West
Vancouver, 925-0667; fax:
925-0668. Visa,
MasterCard, Visa, American
Express and Interac accept-
ed. Open Tuesday to
Sunday for dinner. Fully
licensed. Vegetarian
options? Many. Take the

‘kids or call a babysitter? Call.

a babysitter.

Menu for tonight:

® Glass of Jekel Gravelstone
Chardonnay ($8.75)

© Edamame ($3.75)

© Isobe Age ($6.25)

© Ebi Gyoza ($5.95)

¢ Seafood Butter Yaki
($7.50)

© Seawall Roll ($9.75)

© Zen Appetizer Sashimi
($9.95)

© Dynamite Roll ($6.25)
® B.C. Roll ($4.95)

FROM Dundarave’s
“own corner of cos-

mopolitan dining: the
other bookend in
downtown sophistica-
tion.

Zen and the art of
Japanese dining.

Its Scoozami neighbour
offers a slice of bistro chic
without the downtown com-
plications of parking, bridge
travel and unexpected urban
unpleasantries.

Zen, meanwhile, offers a
real North Shore slice of fine
Japanese dining.

And that marker, over the
past five years, has become
one of the most competitive
of any local restaurant catego-
rv.

Sushi bars have sprung up
in unlikely locales across the
North Shore.

But there are few that

deliver the entire restaurant
package of service, ambience
and food quality; fewer sill
that offer menus with much
to distinguish them from
their competition.

You've got your sushi,
your sashimi, your tempura,
your udon, your heated saki,
your Kirin beer by the quart.

At Zen you've got much
more. .

Ever since it was bought
by Angela Jamal and Jun
Park in September 1995
the West Vancouver ;
Japanese restaurant has
been much more than

another sushi bar where the
takeout trade is the equal
to the in-heuse trade.

Jamal lett the restauranc
in August, but Zen, with

> Park at the heim, remains a

destination Japanese dining
locale. Its interior combines
the elegance and clean lines
of ebony, glass and wood
grain.

Its ambience has down-
town sophistication but is
blessedly free of any down-
town pretension.

And head chef Nobu

* See Wide following page

NEWS photo Paul McGrath,

ZEN chef Keith Kamizato (left), owner Jun Park (centre) and Sian. Everett share an
table at the West Vancouver Japanese restaurant. - ;

Robbie Burns Nights

Thursday, Jan. 25 & Sat.. Jan. 27

Including:

Tastings of three single malt seotches
Highland Dancers ¢ Open Mike ¢ Bagpiper
Traditional three course dinner
Haggis supplied by the one and only Peter Black
Reserve now - limited seating left.

Holiday Closings - December 26, 27, 28

- sundried tomato boursin cheese demi auice, Yukon wh ipP
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Meringue Swan with Belgian chocolate :
OR

Trio of Chocolate *
chocolate ice cream, chocolate pate, chocolate fourless ca!

“30m.

1734 Marine Drive West Van © 922-2411