24 - Wednesday, July 21, 1993 ~ North Shore News

sundeck vista inspirin

From page 23
with a color photo collage of gar-
rulous patrons and smiling hosts.

Roma, you see, deals in abun-
dance and exuberance.

Its wine list, for example, runs to
over 250 selections ($17 to $340,
for an Amerone Classico Superior
Bertani 1962), most of which are
Italian. Eight interesting wines are
offered by the glass ($5 to $7), and
the list includes special sections of
Grappa ($4 to $9 per glass) and
other aperitif and after-dinner
refresnment.

Cafe Roma's menu is equally
daunting: three long pages dense

“with Appetizers (cold and hot,
$6.50 to $9); Soups and Salads
($4.50 to $8); Fish ($17 to $19);
Grilled Meats ($15 to $19); Veal
and Chicken ($17.50); Pasta (a full
page, $12 to $13); and Combina-

‘tion Platters ($15 to $35).

It is a diversity that reflects the
Corsi enthusiasm for good food,
and it is a diversity that can be
sampled in small or large doses.

The Corsis have provided entic-

‘ing sampler options with Roma's
various pasta, meat- and fish-feast
combo plates. -

The restaurant's additional Food
and Wine Menu Degustazione .
also lists a quartet of dishes that
can be ordered together ($30 per
person) with wine suggestions for
each course.

But much joy can be extracted
from simply working various small
corners of the menu.

Table Hopping, for example, did
not progress beyond the Appetizer

section during its recent Friday

night graduation celebration.

Of course, kindergarten gradu-
ates are not ‘usually willing com-
panions in dining adventures, but

: small folk fike interesting plates
and colorful presentations as much
as do the graduates of higher

learning institutions,

We began with Chianti Fur ‘i for
the senior celebrators and St.isley
Temples for the junior celebratees.

The chianti, a sterling blend of
such noble Italian grapes as
‘Sangiovese and Malvasia del chi-
anti, had a good soft touch. Good
company, too, for the complimen-
tary slab of Roma's thick and
chewy pizza bread.

The plate of Calamari Fritti was
piled high with fried calamari
rings, topped with sprigs of parsley
‘and accompanied by pots of spicy
marinara dip.

Legumi Al Crostino added the
traditional Italian appetizer built
upon crostini -- toasted Italian
bread.

The Roma version came topped
with marinated red and yellow belt

‘ peppers, pan-fried eggplant, sun-

dried tomatoes and red onions, all
baked with smoked Mozzarella
cheese.

Elsewhere on the table: Raviolo
Aperto, a big square of black pasta

topped with a herbed salmon and
shrimp filling and finished with a
square of green pasta and rings of
red onion; Carpaccio Sottobosco,
argula leaves beneath fine slices of
raw beef topped with thick shav- ©
ings of fresh Parmesan cheese,
capers and white truffle oil; Pro-
sciutto e Carciofi, more fine slices,
this time Italy’s delicate air-dried
ham accompanied with marinated
artichoke hearts and a colorful
garnish of red and yellow bell
peppers encased in endive.

The Zabaglione finale combined
the richness of Mascarpone cream
cheese with wild Saskatchewan
blueberries.

We enjoyed all of the above on
Roma's spacious sundeck, which
looks out over the green harbor-
side oasis of Waterfront Park —-
host to informal cricket matches,
train shuntings and Japanese
gardens, .

It is a good place to celebrate
graduations of all description:

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‘# 70% of sun damage occurs during incidental
— laniing without trying-suchas. .

walking down the street, riding a bicycle, or
driving in a car; .

° UVB (Known as the buming rays) areat their.

trongest between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m,;" “-.

° studies show that UVB rays can cause ‘wrinkles,
discolouration, sagging and skin cancer;

* UVA rays — the aging rays—do their damage all
‘ day long from sunrise to sunset;

2 UVA rays are nat blocked by glass enclosures

‘Until Tuesda ry,
July 31.