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NAPKIN- UP diners.
Today a new Table
Hopping service that
will be featured spo-
radically in this space
for the time-chal-
lenged ‘90s diner: Eat
and Run — quick bites
on the endless dining
trail,

What's that? Too much
time used already? Cut to
the chase?

Yo.

E.and R destination No.
1:

The Village Bistro, 3135
Edgemont Blvd., North
Vancouver, 980-5555.
Open Tuesday to Sunday
for. dinner; open ‘Tuesday
to Friday for lunch. Closed
Menday. Visa and Master-
Card accepted. — Fully
licensed. Vegetarian op-

tions? Some. Take the kids

or cali a babysitter? Cali a

babysitter,

To the latest version of
this well-patronized -

/ Edgemont Village restaurant

onan éarly spring Friday”:
evening not long after it
reopened with original

Village Bistro Boy and
expert chef Steve. Myddleton

“at the helm:

“= AS reported in previous
Table Hopping dispatches,
Middleton left the Bistro
with fellow Bistro Boys Joe.

: Perri and Shawn. Berger. i in’

north shore news

DINING
fe at refurbisi

Everything from bread to
pasta is made on the premis-
es.

Menu, garcon:

Appetizers ($16 to

tered.

But the warm intimacy of
the place remains.

And the food is ail
Myddleton: rich, innovative
and delicious.

May 1998 when they head-
ed west to open the
Ambleside Bistro.
Myddleten helped launch
the West Vancouver version
of the Biscro last June with
suitable Bistro Boy style.
But after six months he
and the rest of the original
Bistro Boys parted company.
Meanwhile at the Village
Bistro, Alberto and Maria
Sabatucci, who had been
managing the restaurant
since May 1998, departed in
January to open a restaurant
of their own. (See Caruso
May 26 Table Hoppin
Re-enter Mr. M eon
and rejoice Bistro fans. Now -
there are nwo Bistros, and
cach has enough elements of
the original to satisfy
- patrons in both locations.
Myddlcton’s refurbished
- Edgemont bistro runs pretty
close to the original.
Its interioz has been
», updated: there are 2 few
seats around the bar; the
ceiling’s sky-blue zones
: backdrop cumulus clouds;
seating is a little less clut-

Boneless T Zep Sirloin Steak
New Zealand, Family Pack

Pringle Potato chips
assorted varieties |

$458.

Open perhaps with Oven
Roasted Elephant Garlic. It
comes with 2 sumptuous
gorgonzola sauce and a
round of butter-fried toast.
Arich and filling beginning.

Elsewhere in the appetiz-
ers: Tuna Carpaccio;
Dungeness Crab Cakes;
Butterfly Prawns; Baked

See Service page 27

Canning Time! ~

Rogers’ Granulated Sugar

170-200 or

Prices effective July 7-July 10,1899
(while supplies last - we reserve the right to fimit quantities.) .

dfel as sHI~A Restaurant You Can't

. LAS North Vancouver -°

Like the sequel to a great
movie Goodfellas, the
- restaurant is definitely worth
. duplicating. The first
Goodfellas is located ini the :
West End at Albemi and
Bute. Known for serving ele-
gant lunches and exquisite
dinners, this well
established
restaurant
lends itself to
expansion.
Now open on
the Noxth
Shore in the
location previ-
ously known
as Vivace,
Goodfellas 11 is
showing signs
of becoming a° .
permanent land- *
‘ muirk. Goodfellas u brings

Spacious garden patio

Private ps Party room

224 West Espianc
at Sernisch Ave. .

‘spirit moves you.

Owners Bob Constabaris
and David Koonar have a
partnership that fosters
success. They own several

930-5878
Free Parking
Open : 7 days a week e Lunch « Brunch ° Dinner

dance floor if the ©

_testaurants between them ~
and one of their claims to
fame is their staff. Some of.

‘their employees have been
with them for 17 years. ;
Not many. restaurants can..
say that.

Executive chef Joseph
Lassaga oversees both
restaurants ensuring consis-
tency in food preparation

and stocking both kitchens
with only the freshest ingre-
dients available.“

David Koonar says, “We

have several customers that
frequent our downtown loca-
tion bui as North Shore resi- ..
dents they prefer tc go cut

for dinner on this side of the *
bridge. They are glad we

have opened a location on |
Esplanade. It's important to
us to offer menu items with

* the same savoir faire that.

we've become known for.”
Goodfellas I is open 7 days

a week, it serves dinner
every night, lunch Monday . -

“to Friday and brunch.
: Saturdays and Sundays. .. :

Evenings of live j jazz pogin

items include =". -
. Szechwan Prawn, Penne; :
Breast of Duck with: :

“Wildberry and Amaretto ”

Sauce, Smoked Chicken
Penne and it's Pizza with.

“Smoked Duck Sausage. ;

Dinners range in price from
$15.95 to $22.95 and lunch :
from $9.00 to $12.00.°- ~..
Finally...a fresh approach to
an evening out with fine”
dining, wonderful live jazz, ~-
adance floor, free parking ..
and it's all just down the

street. Bravo! |