Great Greek grub (ON :

From the original N. Shore Greek taverna

Pasparos Taverna, 132 West
3rd St., North Vancouver,
980-0331. Visa, MasterCard and
American Express accepted.
Open every day for dinner.
Open every day for lunch start-
ing in June. Take the kids or
call a babysitter? You could do
either.

Timothy Renshaw
TABLE HOPPING

TWAS the first Greek

restaurant on the North

Shore, and after almost
20 years, it remains one of
the best.

Pasparos arrived in 1974 as the
North Shore’s version of Orestes,
Aristedes Pasparakis’ great Van-
couver Greek restaurant.

It provided a vigorous oasis of
joyous Greek culture and social
intercourse along the barren 3rd
Street strip.

That strip remains as culturally
bankrupt today as it was 20 years
ago, perhaps with even less to of-
fer now. It would be difficult to
find a less attractive city intersec-
tion at 10 p.m. on a Friday night
than Lonsdale and 3rd Street i in its
current state.

’ But the great Greek oasis to the
west continues to thrive despite its
surroundings.

Pasparos was blessed from the
beginning with the Pasparakis’
spirit and joie de vivre. And it has
developed that most elusive of
restaurant characteristics: at-
mosphere.

Pasparos, on a good Friday
night, is crowded, smoky and
noisy as any § good Greek restau-
rant should bi

It is also fi led with the sounds of
laughter, the clink cf glasses, the
muffled moans of Greek music
and the smells of feta cheese,
onions, garlic, lemon and roasting
lamb.

It is a joyous jostle of food and
folks.

The restaurant is bigger than |
remember it, with three large

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cuisine, but adds a strong selection
of seafood.

seating sections now and a large
open fair-weather patio.

Its color scheme is classic Greek
Mediterranean blue and white.

Pasparakis, a compulsive found-
er of restaurants, sold Pasparos in
1978 to former Pasparos waiter
Gregory Roumanis, but he return-

ed in 1988 to overhaul the restau- _

rant’s menu and host a 15th anni-
versary customer appreciation
Greek fiesta at Pasparos.

The menu he brought with him
then is still largely intact.

It includes the souvlaki,
mousaka, lamb, beef and chicken
backbone of classic rural Greek

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