16 - Friday, November 27, 1987 - North Shore News

CAFE DU COIN

restaurant broadens walls, menu

AN ABUNDANCE of local fall restaurant news has
necessitated removal of the regular Table Hopping review to
the back burner. The regular restaurant review will appear

in next Friday’s column.
CAFE DU COIN, 1747 MARINE
DRIVE, WEST VANCOUVER,
922-2308

Formerly specializing in lunch
and early dinner service, this in-
creasingly popular. West. Van-
couver restaurant has recently ex-
panded from 35 to 65 seats.

Caesar ($3.75) and other salads,
Eggs Benedict and Florentine
($4.95) and homemade soups,
quiche and pasta dishes.
THE PARK ROYAL HOTEL, 440
CLYDE AVENUE, WEST VAN-
COUVER, 926-5511

This landmark hotel-restaurant

table
hopping

by Timothy Renshaw

Along with its broadening of
restaurant walls will be a broaden-
ing of restaurant service and menu
that will include a liquor licence
. and several lamb entrees, most
notable of which will be Cafe du
Coin’s roast and deboned leg of
lamb. Prices have yet to be finaliz-
ed, but all entrees will be under
$10.

Owners Ben Kaabar and An-
dreas Salvanos have already
established themselves in local res-
taurant circles with what readers.
report is an excellent selection of

located on the scenic banks of the
Capilano River is offering a special
Tudor Evening Getaway © for
romantic couples, harassed parents
and other lovelorn combinations.
Until Dec. 30, the hotel is offer-
ing a single night’s accommoda-
tion (with flowers and champagne
upon arrival), a. five-course
gourmet meal in the Tudor Dining
Room that includes a choice of
such entrees as Peppersteak Pari-
sienne, Pheasant Breast. with
Bavarian Mushrooms and Roast

Rack of Lamb Dijon, and a news-

_”_) Magnificent Waterfront View
2nd Floor at Lonsdale Quay Market 987-3322

- We Proudly Introduce Our New

BRUNCH MENU

Served Saturday, Sunday & Holidays
~~ from 10 am - 3 pm
Serving Dinner Daily

paper with coffee for the morning
after.
Package price is $125 far two.

VANCOUVER GASTRONOMIC,
A MENU GUIDE TO THE
FINER RESTAURANTS IN
VANCOUVER

The 12th edition of this in-
valuable reference. guide to the
menus of North Shore and Lower
Mainland restaurants, pubs and
bistros is now in local boos stores.

For restaurant enthusiasts, the’

book, which sells for $9.95, pro-
vides an illuminating preview
glance at the menus of over 150
restaurants and 45 pubs from
Whistler to the Fraser Valley. Price
and selection can be perused at
leisure before the pangs of hunger
cloud good sense with ravenous
passions in the restaurant hot seat.

Though restaurant prices are
notoriously fluid and subject to
constant change, the menus will
give diners a good idea of a restau-
rant’s price range and culinary
aspirations.

Included for the first time in the
Gastronomic is a_ section on
neighborhood pubs and the steadi-
ly improving food they offer.

The book’s various indices sepa-
fate restaurants into a host of
categories ranging from
alphabetical, area and cuisine to
whether a restaurant has such ex-
tras as dining and dancing or
waterfront or outdoor dining.

All-important area maps are also
included for those who dare to
venture beyond their own
neighborhoods.

and put up the holly,

Sixteen North Shore restaurants
and seven North Shore

neighborhood pubs are in the 1987

Gastronomic model.

The book is published by Rain-
coast Books, which is run by
North Vancouver’s Mark Stanton.
CAPILANO WEST CHINESE
RESTAURANT, 2396 MARINE
DRIVE, WEST VANCOUVER,
922-2922 :

This long-lived Dundarave-area
Chinese food restaurant reopened
Oct. 26. after undergoing a six-
week, $150,000 overhaul that has
added 50 seats to the restaurant's
original 90.

All the new seats have wisely
been added to the Capilano’s south
side to afford patrons more of the
Lower Mainland-renowned West
Vancouver harbor view.

FIESTA MEXICANA RESTAU-

An Exotic Safari into the

RANT, 200-1200 LONSDALE,
NORTH VANCOUVER, 985-8226:

Ownership of the North Shore’s
major centre of Mexican cuisine is
currently trying’ to inject some
salsa into the initially tentative Fi-
esta service Steps. 4

In that spirit, the restaurant has
just unveiled a Speedy Gonzales
lunch that features a selection of
more traditional Canadian-style
luncheon standbys such as ham
and cheese sandwiches and %-

‘pound hamburgers in a price range

($3.95 to $5.95) that can be ac-
commodated by most wallet sizes.

Emphasis at lunch, as is in-
dicated by the new moniker, is on
speed of service. :

Also available at similarly quick
rates of kitchen-to-table delivery is
Fiesta’s full range of good, tradi-
tional Mexican cuisine.

heart of Fine East African. indian Cuisine

TANTALIZE YOUR TASTE BUDS!

Dine in Casual Elegance °
ae / ort.

Take Home Some Excitement.

LICENSED ¢ PARTY ROOMS

“RESERVATIONS © TAKE, OUT

1344 Lonsdale Ave.,. NV.

9TH" is the season to be jolly,
We've deck the halls

Let’s raise our voices ‘hale and hearty,
O'Doul’s Hotel is the place to party!

Holiday parties at O’Doul’s are
something to sing about. Book your
Christmas and New Year’s celebra-"

tions now. Large or small, traditional
or trendy, O’Doul’s has a party plan
and menu to fit.

Call and reserve today.

ooul!’

RESTAURANT

The best is now better.

1300 Robson Street, Vancouver 684-8461
Open 7 days a week, 7am - 1am
Brunch Saturdays, Sundays & holidays
Free underground parking

This week’s entertainment

-) RAY GARAND»

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