Saluting salmon a North Shore tradition From page 18 Deb Connors will feature on their restaurants’ menus special salmon creations from their kitchens and from the kitchens of the other restaurant participants all this month. It would make for salmon : enchanted evening. (Bad pun cour- tesy of elder relative of Table Hopping department who believes such low humor is not featured enough in current Table Hopping columns). . Hristos Greek Taverna, 1301 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver. Lucky 13th strikes again. _Hristos, the latest in a long line of _testaurants to take up the challenge of surviving on the northwest cor- : ner of this busy North Vancouver intersection, has closed. The Greek taverna did not get “ off to a quick start in the locale when it opened May 2, 1994. it ’ had ‘neither the food nor the atmos- phere needed to be a lasting tenant, especially in the awkward North’ Vancouver City location. ». Next up: Nando's (990-1530), ‘the operators of which have erect-. - ed a.window display that promises _“Wings'of Change” and a taste-of Portugal. Why not? Every other taste has had a crack at the place. v Set to open in early November. The Hot Bread Hot Kabab, 71 . " Lonsdale. North Vancouver. 985- : 4444., « Gads! Gran’s Café is gone.’ Another. piece of North Shore his- _ tory bites the dust... In its place: Ali Khandan’s dou- ble hot kabab ‘house. " Scheduled to open this. week,’ the Hot Bread will feature the . “ Persian dishes of Jalal Pouresad, - former chef at the Caspian Persian : restaurant in West Vancouver. _ Entrees (Kababs, Halin, Dy 8 ERIE LSet EM TES NEWS photo Brad Ledwidge SALMON CELEBRATION ... Mary Hall (left) and Daryl Wilton of West Varicouver’s Granite Cafe present a special salmon dish at the Salmon House on the Hill's festive Salmon Month launch Party. and more) will range in price from $5 to $14, Seating will be traditional Persian-style: shoeless upon Persian rugs, of which Khandan i is a former saleschap. Pouresad’s departure was apparently too much for the . Caspian — the restaurant that replaced the long-departed ; Ambleside Inn in July 1994. Table ‘ Hopping has been unabie to get past its answering machine for weeks, . ' . Pepiias Mexican Re: estaurant, , 180 West Esplanade, North - Vancouver. More departures. “Pepitas, a long-time occupant of the building that once housed the Harvest, Mr. - Munchie’s and other eateries, is no ‘French ploni : nuked ; John Moore | WINE SPOTS * 1 DON’ 'T usually editorialize in. this space, but lve had a few soberi ing experiences this week, ; Wine drinkers, normally a happy, hypocritically hedonistic lot who'll knock back: Chilean or South-African wines by the bucket (never. mind the depressed - economies :or repressive regimes | that guarantee low prices) are get- ting religion. over the French gov- . “ernment's perverse and pointless decision to continue nuclear testing in the South Pactfie, ! **. "Twice this week guests have put “a hand over their glasses and said, 1s that French wine?" ~ else.” “Well, yes, It's a-rather good ~- Pouilly- -Fuisse,” or scmesuch, the host has replied, only to be told, “Please bring me something else. Anything else, as jong as it’s not French.” “But..but... There is “Fine. Mineral water, then... as * Jong as it’s not Perrier.” A ‘young. corporate lawyer con- fessed, “f have a cellar full of French wines. Pve padlocked it. I's killing me, but 1 can’t serve it and J] won’t drink it until they stop this senseless arrogance’ South Pacific.” Arrogance it may be; quite senseless. Of course the French know their nuclear toys work; what they're but not doing is demonstrating to a re-uni-. ‘fied Germany — a neighbor who has invaded France three times ina little over a century —~ that they are prepared to use them in defiance of world opinion, To boycott or not to boycott? One bright spot is that given.the , -price of better French wines. hav- ing a social conscience comes cheap, ‘ nothing in the ' more. Its replacement i is rumored to be a new dining venture called Explorers. Let's hope they have - equipped themselves with a good- compass and full survival gear. The dining trade is not for the | faint of heart. 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