NEWS photo Paul McGrath

CAKE KING ... Piece of Cake Dessert Emporium owner Greg Ward with books and baked goods at his new
Esplanade dessert bar and book store in Lower Lonsdaie.

Sushi and the sweet hereafter *

SOME travelling
miusic, maestro: a
trans-North Shore
dining adventure beck-
ons.

getic about the occasionally
erratic service flow.
But no matter. The food

w hipped out of the dining
room’s sushi bar by a pair of
unusually vocal sushi chets.

Completed orders are delivered was good quality
barked out by the sushi and came in abundant por-
bar’s head man. tions,

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First stop:

West Vancouver and the
newly opened Daihatsu
Japanese Restaurant (1479
Clyde Ave.; 913-8803;
open Monday to Friday
for lunch; open every
night for ‘dinner; Visa and
Mastercard accepted).

Yet another sushi and
sashimi house in the
Ambleside village area.

This one in an off
Marine Drive location
previously occupied by a
bicycle sales and service
operation.

No trace of two-wheeled
consciousness remains,

Instead there is a roomy

50-seater that boasts a stan-
dard sushi bar ringed with
stools and a wide open din-
ing room serviced by a
short-order kitchen that
whistles out tempuras, sliced
beef and other teriyakis,
udon and assorted hot noo-
dic dishes, and some ambi-
tious robata (salmon head
and belly; oyster motoyaki;
kabayaki and ika maruyaki).
The rest of the menu
(sushi, sashimi, et al) is

5 Serving World Famous Fish & Chips?
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Valid until

Table numbers preface
food items: “Table &.
Dynamite Roll. Table 3.
Sashimi assorred.”

A team of waitresses hops
to the barks that relate to
their tables, and dishes are
delivered in the sequence in
which they were ordered.

Difficult to tell whether
thar’s the planned system of
service or whether waitresses
just moved the dishes off
the sushi bar as quickly as
possible to avoid a sushi
chef tongue lashing.
Daihatsu had been in opera-
tion scant weeks when Table
Hopping visited.

Waitresses were apoio-

Apart from the wide
range of sushi and sashinsi
offered, Daihatsu provides
diners with some interesting
full dinner packages.

There are combination
platters such as the Daihatsu
Special ($34.95 gets you a
dinner for two), which pack-
ages maki sushi, sashimi,
barbecued fish, sushi and
oyster motoyaki. The order
includes openers of
sunomono and miso soup
and a simple dessert of ice
cream.

But there are also tempu-
ra, sliced beef, salmon and

See Dessert’s page 32

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