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most of the moming kitchen
- showtimes and concentrate on the
evening culinary prime time?

. After launching his elegant
‘Saffron Bistro in‘October 1993 as
‘primarily an early-morning and

afternoon deli-style restaurant,
Fakstorp soon wearied of the lim-
‘ited challenge of glorified short-
order cookery.

-. Dinner, afier all, is where they
“aeparate the men from the boys on
the four-starstining circuit.

‘And it is upon dinner that the

posing Dane set his sights.

-Fakstorp,-of course, is no
stranger to that four-star circuit.

The Paris-trained chef has
worked in ‘major hotels and
restaurants ail.over the world and
is the former executive chef at
Vancouver’ fine Seasons i in the

vned th three: weeks later
with an improved ‘wood-paneled
ii rm : (decorated with his

f operation to focus on
lunch ‘and dinner instead of break-

of, Danish valiaay culture on
West ‘Vancouver’ s Marine Drive

‘aff criginal ‘cafeteria-style .:

serve-yourself- by-shouting-at-the-

her: system of ordering. :
its-place is‘a full-service :
restaurant outfitted-with a small.
but interesting dinner menu (appe-
tizers $4 to.$8; entrees $9 to $17)

marily ‘on the Western :
Hemiisphere’s west coast (bottles:
from Chile, California, the Pacific

‘The menu is small but there is
) regulation’ meat-and-two-veg

approach here, my son. °
Dishes all bear the polished

- Saffron touch.

In place of standard boiled
potatoes sprinkled with parsiey
and a slab of grilled meat:
Venison Escalopes surrounding a
risotto and wild-rice pancake
topped with brilliant green
Chinese broccoli, the meat fin-
ished in a juniper berry and gor-
gonzola cheese cream sauce.

Or perhaps a Saffron Risotto
with prawns and scallops pesto.

_ Or how about Poached Black
Cod with grapefruit and chives?

Or Lamb Loin with fresh chili
chutney?

Preceded, might we suggest,
by a Warm Roasted Vegetable
Salad dressed in sage and gor-
gonzola. Or better still the now
famous Saffron Roasted Tomato
Soup — a thick fresh tomato base

~plugged with large Saffron crou-

tons.
All this prepared in a kitchen
that is ‘smaller than what diners

, would find in many West

Vancouver homes and powered
by an electric range, for Gad’s
sake.

Ah, well, ‘tis not the grill, but
the talent behind it. And the
Saffron is well stocked with the
latter.

A touch of Saffron in the night,
you say. Make it several nights.

Tasty Morsels:

Hearty congratulations to
Beach Side Cafe owner Janet
McGuire, who won the Bill

’ Tucson Restaurateur of the Year

award at last week’s Restaurant

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and Foodservices Association of
B.C, and the Yukon annual awards
dinner.

The charming Ms. McGuire is
a worthy choice.

As is the Vancouver Sun's
Murray McMillan, who won the
association’s Sandy Sanderson
Award, which recognizes excel-
lence in food writing.

The awards were given out as
part of Fab °96, the British
Columbia Food and Beverage
Conference.

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