Cheers Restaurant, 125 East 2nd
$t., North Vancouver, 985-9192.
2 Misa; MasterCard and Amezican’
‘Express accepted. pen Monday
‘to Saturday from'114 a.m. Open
Sundays from 10 a.m, Take the
kid or cafl a babysitter? Take the
‘kids, ce

“Menu for tonight: "|

= @: Glass of Mommessin Export '

’ Red ($3.75)

@: Children’s Hamburger ($3: 99,

“includes soft drink and sundae)
-4,@° Cheers Buffet ($11.95)

@ Shrimps and. 6 oz. New York

__ Steak ($7.95) ‘

oN SEARCH of political
“answers, we head to
“Cheers —.traditional -
enue for. Socred breakfasts,
otary Club get-togethers,
NDP socialist planning
meetings. and other upstan-
ing.community events.
-ourse, most of aforesaid
“-functions take place on Cheers’
‘second floor, above the street-
level riff-raff.”. ~ - ;
ut Table Hoppin hopes to ab-
orb,some of the political savvy
‘that likely settles to the above floor
“and seeps through the ceiling to
he-main restaurant below.

‘ Before the’ night’s out, we could
be very. much in. the know. And if
e’re-not, ai least we will have

been very, muclrinto the chow, |
vhich remains ever-reasonable at

‘ou see, aren't all as.

gormless;as they-look. They know
jbargain ‘diner.when they see:

You needa full stomach to. .
deliver empty speeches. And, after
eight years in its East Second Street
local Cheers conti Wes 10 excel,

iV family eate

Timothy Renshaw

TABLE HOPPING

at the not-so-subtle art of filling
stomachs, whether they be these
ot political gasbags or just regular
folks.

The restaurant's food is far from
haute cuisine, but plates arrive
with little vacant white space and
lots of no-nonsense meat and

: potatoes.

Cheers isa place of nightly
specials, salad bars and buffets.

-Tuesday night it’s Two for Ore
Burgers; Wednesday is Wings
Night (21 cents each); Thursday
night: Prime Rib or New York
Steak with soup and salad bar (two
for $17.99).

Its regular menu offers the full
range of familiar modern culinary
Canadiana that will leave no mid-
‘dle-of-the-rocd palate dissatisfied
and no street-level appetite wan-
ting.

it has therefore become a regu-
lar haunt for young families, low-
rent office parties and economy-

; minded alderly diners.

“Two-fisted sandwich food (ham-
burgers, BLTs, beef dips, stuffed.

-croissants).shares equal menu
~ billing with pastas and other plain
~ but filling meat and fish- based en-

trees.
‘Entree prices range irom around
$6 up to $13, with a pair of high-

‘flyers (Steak and Lobster, $22.95;
‘Rock Lobster Tail, $15.95) filling ~ -

out the top end.
Cheers, however, is not the

_, place to wager large dining doilars

on the kitchen’s finesse.

The sampled buffet, for exam-
ple, presented a wide assortment
of meats, vegetables, pastas and
desserts, but most of the items that
were supposed to be hot were
tepid.

Some of the more interesting-
looking items, meanwhile, were
disanpointing.

Sushi rolls, for example,’ were
stuffed with lettuce and sprinkled
with fish roe, thereby rendering a

‘good idea flat and lifeless.

Cheers does better with the
basics.

The children’s hamburgers were
good dollar value. They cameona
full-sized sesame seed bun with a.
side of fries. Lettuce, tomato and
cheese was 95cents extra, but the
$3.99 price included a soft drink
anda farge i ice cream sundae.

The Shrimp and Steak entree
froin Cheers’ special dinner menu
came with rice and assorted boiled
vegetables.

it included cight mid-sized grill-
ed shrimps and a steak that was
grilled to medium-rare specifica-
tions.

Cheers has only a bare-bones
wine list (a dozen bottles, $13 to
$17), but offers an extensive
cocktail selection and a couple of
local beers on tap.

Service is provided by a young:
waiting staff that is for the most -

_ part pleasant and hard-working.

It is beginning to show some...
wear and tear and its food is less:
impressive than when it began,

but Cheers still offers a good dollar _
‘value in the extremely competitive

family dining division. :

. Substance, if nat style. Which
for hungry diners and disillusioned
voters is preferadle to the reverse,

‘Several issues addressed with public site

Fron: page 27°

“tight and surrounding water that
‘characterize the project's location.
“Finally, those who experienced the
regenerative energy of Virginia:
-Nietzy‘s enigmatic choreography
at Gallery Alpha’s Head-Hunter-
~ Simpson exhibit in the spring of
'92 will look forward to the dance
_ performance she has devised for”
-. the Versatile project. ;

. What do the artists wish to ac-
© complish with this undertaking?
“According to Simpson, “‘the op-

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portunity it affords the artists to

.. work on a grand scale in a’ public

setting is only part of the attraction
'— the status of public art on the

: North Shore is also of critical i im-

portance here. ”’

Of course, there are several
issues being addressed by this
undertaking, Hunter points out,

“not the least of which is the im-
portance of promoting and enabl-
ing local artists.

“The provision of financial

assistance in projects like this is

call

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