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RESTAURANT

1724. Marine Drive, West Vancouver

Table D’Héte 40% below menu price

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RESERVATIONS Tel: 922-2411

WITH THIS AD (FOOD ONLY)
Expires Feb 13, 1998

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NOW OPEN SUNDAYS

Lunch: Mon-Fri, 11:30am-2:30pm
Dinner: Evenings, 5pm-lipm

987-9910

1. Lonsdale Ave., North Van.

The Beach Side Cafe, 1362

Marine Dr., West

Vancouver, 925-1945. Visa,

MasterCard and American

Express accepted. Open

every day for lunch and din-

ner. Vegetarian options?

Some. Take the kids or call a

babysitter? Call a babysitter.
Menu for tomght:

© Glass of Fetzer Eagle Peak

Merlot ($7.95)

© Warm Smoked Goose salad

(S11.95)

© Special Sweet Potato soup

with ginger ($4.95)

© Porato-crusted Chilean Sea

bass ($21.95)

@ Sauteed Prawn ‘Tails

($23.95)

¢ Lemon Meringue Pic

($4.50)

NOT really beach
weather, I know.

But Beach Side weather?
That's anorher story.
Regardless of the climatic
conditions, Janet MeQiuire’s
fine West Vancouver restau-
rant is the best of company.

Perhaps even more so in
the Big Grim — that monot
one expanse of time when
January's damp giev soul
sceps into every psychological
weak spot immediately atter
the curtain falls on
December's festivities.

Inspiration is needed to
set the new vear offon an
optimistic foot.

Gastronomic inspiration.

Nothing Jike a good meal
and goblet of fine wine to
fuel the search for technicolor
hope in the grey wasteland.

To the Beach, then, diners,
with expectations high.

You won't be disappoint-
ed.

235 15th St.
West Vancouver

BEACH BRIGADE ...

NEWS photo Mike Wakefield

Beach Side Cafe owner (left to right) Janet McGuire, man-

ager/sommelier Mark Davidson and chef Carol Chow in the dining room of their
West Vancouver restaurant.

The Beach Side has consis-
tently been one of the North
Shore’s dest restaurants since
MeGuire took over the old
Twicker’s sandwich shop in
1987,

Bur resting on lurels is

Tel: 922-1117
Fax: 921-2443

“engaging and appealing. Plate presentation is four star”

Grilled Alaskan
Jumbo Scallops
Sor Dinner

Timothy Renshaw

Jambo Scallops with lemon-grass, steamed clams and
mussels, all in a tequila-sambuca infused tomato sauce.

Bring this ad for $5 off a minimum $20 purchase at
Infusion. I coupon per couple. Valid until Jan. 29/98.

not for Ms. MeGuire.

Two vears ago, she
expanded the Beach Side din-
ing room to 75 seats, added a
55-sear southern caposure
sundeck and installed a
downstairs wine cellar and
sampling room. It was
MeGuire’s third major Beacd
Side overhaul.

Her kitchen, with chet
Carol Chow presiding, con-
tinues to produce same of
the most imaginative and
artistically rurned- out West
Coast cuisine in the Pacific
Northwest.

And her acquisition in
1995 of Mark Davidson,
famed resident sommmetier at
the equally famed William
Teil in Vancouver, has
ensured the development of
not only the Beach Side’s din-
ing room, but alse its wine

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When you buy any
the price of the chicken 929.

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Tandoor will bee 5:46.99
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5-10 pm 7 days/week
900 W. 16th, North Van.
Ph: 985-8860 Fax: 986-5546

cellar.

Awards recognizing the
Reach Sitle’s efforts in all of
the above categories regularly
coll through its doors. Best
ots; ‘Fop 10s; applause and
great sodden critical
smooches trom all quarters,
local and international.

In 1996, tor example,
McGuire won the Bill
Tucson Restaurateur of the
Year award at the Restaurant
and Foodservices Association
of B.C. and the Yukon annual
awards dinner.

Such renown is richly
deserved, but the Beach is at
umes in danyer of being
taken for eranted.

Juste another stand-out
year, you know, just another
round of critival applause.

What else is new?

Well, great expectations
have a way of undermining
reality, paving the way for dis-
appointment,

And even though a Friday
night in early January spent
at the Beach Side found its
dining room sparsely attend-
ed -- suffering what was
doubtless a hangover from a
packed New Year's Eve cele-

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