NEWS photo Paul MeGrath

. BELLE AIRS...Adele Anderson (left) and Sabrina Tagliafierro present a welcoming order of steak
_ and prawns at the Belaire Bay Cafe on the North Vancouver waterfront.

Beck to Belaire Bay
Cafe for the basics

» The Belaire Bay Cafe, 1653
-.. Columbia St., North Vancouver,
- 989-5444, Visa, MasterCard and
American Express accepted.
...QOpen daily for breakfast, funch
~ and dinner. Take the kids or

“1 alla babysitter? You could do°

: either.

: IME TO blow away
. .the fancy uptown din-
ing frills.

“Time to head down te the

. waterfront to clear the cranial

~ passages with some stiff salt-air

breezes and to get back to kelp-

‘covered North Shore roots.

-_- . Time, me old heaities, to hit the
'.._Belaire Bay Cafe, which used to be
"ithe Anchor In, which used to be

+. the Anchor In Cafe, which used to

~__.be a shoe shop, which used to be.

. a seaside bunkhouse:

The-name changes, but the :
location just west of the Second |
Narrows Bridge remains the same:
an invigorating waterfront vantage
point from which to contemplate
the North Shore’s great harbor
heritage.

Pull up ‘on a late Friday after-
noon into the Belaire’s gravel and
dust parking lot with clouds rolling
in from the nerthwest and the
smells of industrial sea air will fil!
your lungs and the sights of a
thousand nautical dreams will fill

“your soul.

Jimmy Buffet would heartily ap-
prove.

The surroundings thankfully
don’t change much over the years,
but the restaurant has.

many more.
_ There are also a host of ap-'
petizers ($3.50 to $7.95) and lots
of chilled lager on tap.
The Belaire’s wine list is concise
{a dozen bottles, $16 to $22) and
features.a handful of reasonably
‘interesting varieties by the glass.
Apint of Warsteiner lager goes
for $4.50, and you might want to
Timothy Renshaw chase that with a glass of Wyn-
dham Estate Cabernet Sauvignon
TABLE HOPPING "Bin 444 ($4.25).
Accompany either with a Caesar
Salad ($3.75 small; $4.75 large;
Caesar Prawns, $6.95; Chicken
The Belaire boasts what must be — Caesar, $6.75), which delivers lots
the highest advertising signon the _ of sweet, fresh Romaine lettuce
North Shore, fixed strategically beneath a good creamy Caesar
atop a crane level with the west dressing and shavings of fresh
side of the Second Narrows Bridge Parmesan cheese.
(Steak and Prawns: $9.95) — talk Entrees are big.
about haute cuisine. Finesse does nat play a large
It also has a big outdoor part in main meal delivery: a

’ sundeck outfitted with whitedeck house special BBQ Ribs ($9.95)

chairs and sun umbrellas. presented a big side of pork

And the restaurant's interior has _slathered in a sweet honey
been overhauled and cleaned up barbecue sauce decorated with
since the days of the Anchor In slices of orange and lime and ac-
Cafe when diners had to pick their | companied with a large baked
way through abandoned ~ potato and sticks of carrot and
warehouses and past rusting boat zucchini.
parts to partake of an eccentric Asampled Tiger Prawns and
South African-style cuisine. Fettuccine ($12.95) included a

German food followed South half-dozen prawns atop a big bed
African, but the Belaire’s menu of pasta smothered in a cream
covers more familiar Canadien ter- _ sauce heavily spiked with garlic.
ritory. Aslab of hot-buttered garlic

eatures a low-priced selection _ toast was also aboard the plate.

of chicken, ribs, pasta, seafood — For full four-masted appetites
and steak entrees ($9 to $13): only, Billy me boy. :
Chicken Cordon Bieu ($11.95); You could round out your meal
Beef ribs ($11.95); Prawns Belaire with a Bourbon Pecan Pie ora
style ($10.95); Fettuccine Alfredo Sacher Cake, but | could do little
($8.95); Filet Mignon ($12.95); and = more than round out the bill.

| Chef's Deluxe Combination:

© Deep Fried Oysters e Dry Garlic Ginger Beef

| ° Spicy Fish Fillet ® Hot & Sour Shrimp a
| @ Pork Chops in Tangy Orange Sauce ;

© Min. $20 order w/ocupon
© Dine-In-Onaly « Excl. Beverages

CORAL COURT SZECHUAN CUISINE
230 LONSDALE, N. VANCOUVER 987-3303

Wednesday, September 30, 1992 — North Shore News — 28

NVC art display supports
Kids Trust Fund program

A NEW print by one of the Kids Trust Fund, which
Canada’s finest artists, Gathie supports art enrichment for
Falk, along with other work by — Nerth Vancouver schools.
8.C. artists Bill Reid, Robert Prints of the work will be
Bateman, Gordon Smith, Joe available for purchase.
Fafard and Jack Shadbolt, will Sponsored by North Van-
be on display at North Van- couver Community Arts Coun-
couver City Hall from Oct. cil, viewing hours are 8:30 a.m.
15 to Nov. 18. to 4:30 p.m., Monday to Friday.
The artwork, shown in con- The public is invited to attend
junction with work by students the opening reception on Oct.
of School District #44, is part of 15 from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m.

One complimentary
dinner entree when.
a second dinner
entree of equal or
greater value is_
purchased.

a 95
BREAKFAST —s_— Day Special — § 3

2 eags, granary toast, panties, becon & fresh frat

LUNCH spect — festwing a new $ 595

kind of heaith burger with salad/ sandwich with soup

DINNER — Use this coupon and fry a new Korean BBQ dish or
one of our standard entrees.

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Steamed Prawns ene :

“glazed with light

garlic sauce , - a. a | | |
specs $0195

hollandaise sauce

: ; . ie Offer ends
Shrimp Curry oct. 31/929
as spicy as you like it, : oe
mild, medium, hot,
served over rice —

 SeaMates

Seafood Restaurant
SF Closed Monday / Lunch Tues. - Fri. / Dinner ‘Tues. - Sun.

998 Marine Drive, North Vancouver
(across from the Avalon Hotel) 980-12 133