26 ~ North Shore News - Wednesday, January : 2. 2000

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East Indian items added to b

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ter knowledge of the Tusk
products served. Requesting a
chardonnay and being asked
red or white? doesn’t cut it.

Bur the Tusk’s food is well
prepared and reasonably
priced. And there’s much
more than regulation West
Coast boilerplate offered.

D'Souza, formerly of the
Chelsea Hotel in Toronto,
took over the lease of the
restaurant/neighbourhood
pub combination at the begin-
ning of October.

The Tusk’s manager for
the past five years, he has also
jured chet Ashley Page back to
the restaurant.

Page manned the Tusk’s
ovens from 1994 to 1996
before departing to pursue

culinary opportunities in
Kelowna.

s returned with
renewed inspiration.

Page’s new Tusk menu fea-
tures, among other items, a
quartet of East Indian dishes
(North Indian Chicken, Lamb
and Lenul curries and Butter
Chicken — all $11.95) that
brings the rich flavours of the
Asian subcontinent west af
Tavlor Way.

And it’s more than a token
stab ar Indian exotica.

Page's kitchen turns out a
good rendition of what is a
complex cookery.

A sampled Butter Chicken,
for example, arrived aboard a
large silver tray accompanied
with a small buffet of Indian
accoutrements: bowls of
pureed [entils and vogurt: a

generous mound of light
Basmati rice beneath a crisp
A-frame papadum,; a whole
wheat Indian fat bread chap-
adi.
Grilled chopped chicken
breast and chick potato quar-
ters were prepared in a rich
tomato butter sauce made
slightly spicy with curry and
hot peppers.

For SEL95 it made for a
delicious bargain.

More traditional North
American fare is executed with
similar finesse.

Elsewhere on Page’s menu
you'll find pasta and pizza
($10.25 will get you such
items as Smoked Salmon
Linguine, Fettuccini California
and Southwestern Pizza);
steak and seafood ($8.50 to
$14 for evervthing from Fish

AND DELIVER

YOUR LAUNDRY
985-9503

Loais of laundry - $5.50

and Chips to Migonettes of
Beet}; and assorted miscellany
such as quesadillas and stir-
fries.

Under informal finger food
headings, burgers and other
sandwich-style offerings
abound ($6 to $10 — focac-
cia, clubhouses, chicken burg-
ers, veggies, and beef dips).

Try the Salmon Focaccia.
You'll get. a good stab of
salmon that’s been marinated
in olive oil, whire wine, herbs
and garlic laid between thick
focaccia bread and topped
with a herbed mayonnaise.

Add slices of fresh tomato,
some lettuce leaves or any
other topping you can think
of and you've got a good
light, informal meal.

Nicely presented; retresh-
ingly affordable and full value
for your dining dollar. Any
other dollar for that matter.

The Tusk’s wine list ($20
to $26) is bone simple: [4
bottles all told, but all are
available by the glass and half
litre.

It has a secluded courtyard
for summer dining and a roar-
ing blaze for winter.

And, of course, the match-

NEWS photo Paul McGrath

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i Feather duvet -$11.00-
thetic/Catton comforter - $9.50
. ‘Sleeping bags - $9.50
aather/Down pillows - $7.
nthetic/Cotton pillows - $5.

-Bleuses - $4.00 .
a Skirts - $5.60. .
Suit. Jackets - $5.56

$8.00
Winter Coat - $10.50"
Down Jacket - $12.00

A generous serving of Mambo Kings barhecued
chicken and ribs combination served at the Black
Tusk Bistro adjacent to Park Royal's south mall.

less entertainment of watching

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Five

Years ...

PAKING

Jin: selis about 225 dozen bagels every day.
About 40 per cent of that number is sald to
his wholeztle customers including most of
the Starbucks on the lower mainland,
UBC, and at list of independent sores,
Along with the 16 different kinds of bagels
hot front the oven, you can ako enjoy
Montreal smoked meat (Chinois) from
Mantreal.

When it comes to bagels you can’ go wrong
at § Love Bagels Inc. They are authentic
and nothing tastes quite as good as the real
thing.

I Love Bagels Inc. celebrates five years.

fim Mocre and his family moved from Montreal to the North Shore five
years ago. He opensd ' Love Bagel Inc. at 12th & Lonsdule and started
making Montreal baget:. His shog was the first one in the area and the
only one that makes authentic Jewish bagels.

Head baker is Carlos Rodrigues, formerly of Fairmont Bagel shop in
Montreal. Shinder Bhardwaj, wha relocated frem Monereal ta work with
Jin, has years of experience with St, Viateur Bagel Shop in Montreal.

Speciality babers tagether with an authentic recipe dating back ta the 30s
and the particular process of hand-roiling the daugh before it is baked in
a wood fired oven creates a delicious produce.

PLAIN GREAM CHEESE is0 »

Value $2.25. Limit one per customer.
with purchase of

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12th & Lonsdale, still serving the same award-winning Mexican cuisine. Only Better.

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