20 — Wednesday. April 22, 1998 ~ North Shore News

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RESTAURANT

Open for

Thurs., Friday
and Saturday evenings

from noon

Serely Dicacr or Sunday)
921-8161

8995 Lawrence Way
5 niin. from Horseshoe Ba¥ oa Sea to Shy Hwy.

Guck

Bravo Cucina, 1209
Lonsdaic Avenue, Norti
Vancouver, 985-3606. Visa,
MasterCard and American
Express accepted. Open
Monday to Friday for
lunch. Open every night for
dinner. Fully licensed.
Vegetarian options? A few.
Take the kids or call a
babysitter? Call a babysitter.

Menu fox comght:

© Glass of Sumac Ridge
Merlot ($8.50)

¢ Steamed Mussels special
($9.95)

¢ Fettuccine con Gamberi
($14.95)

Special This Week

Shore plate, crab cake,
oyster, salmon and shrimp

7 Rosemary roast lamb
Schnitzel, Viennese style -

$11.98
$11.95
$10.95

Breast of chicken, Cordon Bleu $10.95

; Calves liver, glazed onions

$9.95

‘445 - 13th Street @ West Vancouver
13th & Marine @ Ambleside

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‘altering & Tecke Oil Services

Arailable.

at Viuace
‘Wit OU ROW ane lounge!

Enjoy the piano stylings of pianist
Michael Foster every Thursday, Friday
cand Saturday evenings.

_ Lounge open daily Monday - Friday and Saturday evenings.

Lunch: Monday - Friday, 11:30am - 2:30 pm
Dinner: Monday - Saturday, 5:00 pm - 11:00 pm

north ‘shore news

__ DINING

ila cultivates 5 quailty

ripping
yarns

« Capesante ¢ Gamberi a
Vino Bianco (17.95)
* Beef Tenderloin ($18.95)

PLAY it again, Sami.

It’s our song. Let's call it
ltalian Gastronomic Romance
-— the anthem for fins food
aficionados the world over.

Not all chefs can play the
tune with the same skill.
Done badly or merely by
rote, it can be full of sour
notes.

Played con spirito — the
Tealian way -- it ranks bigh in
the top 10 of world cuisines.

Sami Bentroudi is a play-
er. He’s got the chops, as
they say in the rock trade.

His elegant Bravo Cucina
is closing in on its second
birthday in the small
Lonsdale storefront that for-
merly housed Pierre’s French
bistro.

Almost past that vuinera-
ble formative restaurant start-
up stage, in which the mor-
taliry rate is appallingiy high,
it appears, trom all indica-
tions, to he well on its way to
a tong are inspired life.

Pur it down to
Bentroudi’s culinary virtuosi-

'

A skill tnat he honed dur-
ing the late 1980s and early
1990s at the excellent
Carmelo’s in West Vancouver.

Add to the above his eve
for detaii on the plate and
elsewhere. in his restaurant.

Brave’s dining room, for
exampie, has steadily
acquir ed more character and
substance since it originally
opened back in Mav 1996.

Out of the gate it was

BRAVO BENTROUD! ..

See Updated page 21. North Vancouver City restaurant.

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TABLE D'HOTE
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Friday, April 24
« Vancouver Morris ~
Men
¢ Vancouver Cloggers
* Live music

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Beef Dinner

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free o:ange [ulee, coffee or taa
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NEWS ‘photo Paul McGrath

. Bravo Cucina owner and head chet Sami Bentroudi in his

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Friday, May I

« Vancouver Morris Men

* Tiddley Cove Women’s
Morris and The
Vancouver Morris Men

THE GREEN MAN AND.

THE MAY QUEEN,
¢ Live music

* AThree Course Roast‘.
Lamb Dinner