62 - Friday, February 14, 1986 — North Shore News

WORKING CLASS SENSIBILITIES

Andrea’s got the beef

WHEN THE carnivore within roar

> to be sated, take the

caveman club and loin cloth down to North Vancouver’s

Andrea’s Restaurant.

A hankering for red meat cannot
be dispatched with pale substitutes
from other food groups, no matter
their fleeting dietary vogue.

table
hopping

SN

by Timoth y
Renshaw

Bean sprouts, stir fry, fish, curry
— back to the commune if you
please, sir.

Bring on the steak, red wine and
baked potatoes.

For those sniffing the breeze like
latter-day Mr. Hydes, Andrea Ar-
soniadis has your steak, be it
sirloin, New York or Filet Mignon.

After 14 years in the meat pack-
ing business, Arsoniadis is a
master judge of cowflesh.

PRIDE AND JOY

His meat locker is his pride and
joy, his viewing gallery for slabs of
beef, aged like good wines, 14
days, 18 days and, aha! 28 days:
“Look at that, beautiful right?’

Righto, Andrea. Righto.

Arsoniadis opened his restaurant
14 months ago, taking over the
schmaltz and gastronomic som-
nolence of Little Billy’s Pizza,
Steak and Lobster emporins

For the exuberant @ -*:,, .. was
a dramatic change c! .aree: pace.

Following his years in the meat
trade he took a year off and visited
restaurants in Europe and North
America, picking up ideas, deter-
mined that he would take a swing
at operating a restaurant.

He took a running leap into the
16th Street location, like a
gastronomic Rocky Balboa, short
on experience, but with hands
bloodied and enthusiasm boiling
over.

THE BASICS

Andrea’s reflects its namesake’s
working class sensibilities. It goes
for the basics in both food and
price.

Menu is decked out like a
Kingsway used car salesman: toud
colors alongside a family
photograph album of entrees all
dressed up in their finest parsley
and onion-ring outfits.

Selection takes a _ roundhouse
swing at everything from generic
Italian -- pizza with 37 standard
toppings from $6.95 for a small
Shrimp and Mushroom to $14.95
for a large Salami, Pepperoni,
Bacon, Mushrooms, Shrimps,
Olives, Onions, Green Peppers ~~
to middle class American —
Barbecued Spareribs ($11.95) — to
street-level Greek — Paidakia
Skaras with Greek Salad and rice
($11.95).

But Andrea’s has become syn-
onymous with bargain basement
red meat, on

Order steak and Arsoniadis, a
jovial cross between Mr. Magoo

and Zorba the Greek, will
with a satisfied smile.

As Manager, maitre d’ and ca-
shier, he wanders with infectious
extroversion around his 140-seat
domain Jike a father round his ex-
tended household, clapping hai:ds,
extelling the virtues of his food.

STEAK SPECIALITY

From our position next to one of
the restaurant’s bizarre three
dimensional wall murals, complete
with rock wall, stuffed ducks and
pastoral setting rendered in oils,
my wife and 1 growled for ‘Steak,
and hold the rabbit food."*

1 tested the evening special
eight-ounce New York ($8.95),

it arrived with the blissfully
understated accompaniment of
sauteed mushrooms, foil-wrapped
baked potato and sprigs of parsley.

To plug any gaps in the car-
bohydrate offense, two chunks of
garlic bread the size of paving
stones were delivered.

nod

aahi

Ste

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for a meal at

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4209 Lonsdale,
Open 1

Roast Beef or Chicken
Kiev served with side
salad, mashed potatoes
and fresh vegetables.

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Valid 430-830 pm. only Open Lunch & Dinner.

Reservations 987-8812, 1301 Lonsdale, North Van.

ats, Espresso Bar, Ho!

unday Brunch

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be at New Life Christian Centre,
2800 Mountain Highway tram
Thursday, February 20th to
Sunday, February 23rd at 7:00
p.m. He ministers the word of
God. healing and miracles.

Across the table, my wife was
sharpening utensils for an assault
on Sirloia Steak and Prawns ($14).

Both meals were a considerable
undertaking.

“But what about the steaks?"
Arsoniadis nodded.

“Yes.” we said, ‘very good.
Nicely cooked. Tender. Full of
flavor. Bull’s eye for the carnivo-
rous craving.”

“Twenty-cight days.”’ he beam-
ed. *‘The best.”*

FIRST-RATE

Indeed, and though the prawns lof
were somewhat pedestrian, the “
meat was first-rate and she meals
substantial.

The atmosphere was a casual
reflection of the owner's outgoing
persona, complete with live piano
music and the occasional vocal
outburst from Arsoniadis.

Andrea's, 153 West 16th Street,
is open every day from 11 a.m. un-
til Arsoniadis decides to close.

A good place to unwind with the
minimum of pre-dinner prepura-
on. Casual, economical food for
the full-figure appetite.

New Life
Christian Centre

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