16 — Wednesday, February 7, 1996 — North Shore News

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* 125 E. 2nd St.
N. Vancouver

| 985-9192 Ni

STOP. THE PRESSES
Fhe Park Royal Hotel

is ‘introducitig a new gourmet lunch buffet in its cosy
fireside pub Monday to Friday.

‘TL ‘Impress. your clients oz indulge with your friends;
you've earned it!!! Outstanding selections of the hotel’s |
best from its four star kitchen.
_ Purchase one luncheon at the regular $117 value and
receive the second luncheon FIREE with this ad until |

March 1/96. _ : |
oh Join us on the banks of the beautiful Capilano River in |
|: West Van. a
SS)» SEE-YOU SOON!

Vibrant

Vigorous
Voluptuous
Vivaciously

Delicious

RISTORANTE
‘The best from Italy

60 Semisch (corner West Esplanade)
‘North Vancouver 984-0274

GREEK ODYSSEY ... Restauratour Nick Vavaris has his eye on ale. The owner of Nick's Place is -

hoping ta turn his Lower Lonsdale restaurant into a pub. Sogn.

lick’s new pub

Nick’s Place, 107 West Esplanade .
North Vancouver. 986-6211. Visa.
and MasterCard accepted. Open
every day for lunch and dinner.
Fully licensed. Take the kids or
call a babysitter? You could do
either. But you should do it
before Nick’s is no more.

Menu for tonight:

© Chilled ales.

¢ Gripping Greek tales

NICK’S PLACE is neither
here nor there. In the mind
of the local dining public it
has entered the nether world
of a restaurant in transition.
Bad news for Nick's and bad
news for its owner, Nick Vavaris,
because the nether world is not a
happening place to dine. But there

Timothy
Renshaw

is a bright light at the end of the
tunnel, a happy ending at the close
of this Greek culinary tragi-come-

Moruur innia Yanks our Foops Lre.
indian Culsine of Distinction |

in North Van

.50 Deep Cove & West Van
Specials expire Feb 14/96 -.

900 W. 16th, North Van (16th & Marine} * behind A&W © Spm-l0pm © Fax: 986-5546
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| The Best in

Chinese Dining,
Dim Sum at Kirin
KIRIN MANDARIN RESTAU ANT

LUNCH 11:00 - 2:30 DINNER 5:00 - 10:30
Free 1 hour parking for weekday lunch

Free valet parking weekday evenings & weekends all day

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' RESTAURANT
awards

’ After more than four. years
navigating tricky bureaucratic :
waters — beset on/ali-sides by hos
tile neighborhood natives and the*’
opposition of established neighbo
hood pubs, his testaurant wom and -
listing badly, boxed in by boarded
up buildings and ‘urban decay = :
the Great Greek appears to be sail-
ing into rich new service industry’
waters. - _ ;

The approval for his Coronati

_ Block neighborhood pub at the

southwest corner of Lonsdale end ©
Esplanade is at hand. . -. : “
A key question remains,
er: dees he and his tireless an
charming wife Lia still have th
energy needed to start all over’...
again in a mercilessly competitive
business? = 200i bots
Betting folk have their money.
on the Greek. if nothing else; he’
got staying power, wee ha
Vavaris, of cours¢, is no stran;
to North Shore diners."
He has made and lost at least:
one fortune in the local resta
trade. 0 ES
After arriving in Vancouver in
1959 from his native Corfu, Vavaris

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‘worked in various downtown‘

hotels. 00S

. He moved to North Vancouv
in 1971 and became a partner i
Dino's pizza and pasta house al

See GREEK page 17

~ Experience traditional dishes and fresh
exotic seafood at Vancouver's only’ “
“International award winning Chinese.”

Restaurant. Kirin on Alberni specializing
in exceptional Mandarin Chinese Cuisine
or Kiria on Camble for Cantonese °°
specialties. eS

Dim Sum
Taste the Essence
of Chinese Cookery
~ Colour, Fragrance,

KIRIN SEAFOOD.RESTAURANT iam
LUNCH 11:00 - 2:30 DINNER 5:00-=10:30°" |:
Free parking ali day in City Square Shopping Mall. -:
‘Taste and Shape PP areisenachrriel Beet

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