King’s Fare, 2nd Floor, 235-15th

St., West Vancouver, 925-2553.

Visa and MasterCard accepted.

Open every day for dinner. Open

for lunch Thursday to Saturday.

Take the kids or call a babysitter?
_ Take the kids.

Timothy Renshaw
TABLE HOPPING

Menu for tonight:

@ Pint of Canterbury ale $3.25

© Caesar Salad $3.95

@ Children’s Special $4.95

@ Combination Fish and Chips
$9.95 ;

@ Kiddies’ Chicken Nuggets $4.95

N A solemn Canada Day

ceremony, Table Hopp-

ing staff journey to see
the King.

Not the one with the gyrating
pelvis or the recently deposed
Brian the Blarney Spinner, but the
king with the big chunks of deep-
fried fish and chips.

For that is the brand of royalty to
which plebeian Table Hopping
foik are drawn.

And the good King’s Fare on the
second floor of this Bellevue
Avenue building has remained an
honest and good-quality purveyor
of sturdy British-style food for the
_past two years.

its loyal subjects worship at the
altar of simple food piled high on
plates and washed down with a

_ pint or perhaps, on hot nights, a
hog's head of bitter-sweet ale.

* They appreciate those plates ail
the more when they are priced
below $10 and don’t come cam-
‘ouflaged in frilly green garnishes
or hoity-toity cuisine minceur.

No, me chip Jovin’ lads, this is a
‘real monarch of the people.

Especially those with kids and a
limited budget or those with kids
with a limited tolerance for fancy
menus.

King’s Fare was rightly being
lauded for the quality of its fish
and chips long before it opened its
West Vancouver outlet in June
1991,

- ” The operation began in Van-
couver‘s Marpole area a dozen
years ago. Since then it has estab-
lished a sizable clientele, many of
whom approach fish and chips
with the kind of reverence others
reserve for fine wines.

King’s secret resides in its con-

--sistency and its focus, which is

. deep-fried fish and potatoes.

*: That focus was widened some-

’ what last year, when King’s Fare

Gallery exhibits
innovative work

THE SEYMOUR Art Gallery's
Design for Living exhibit opens
next week in Deep Cove.

The month-long show will be
chock-full of innovative creations
by’ local: glassman Lawrence
Ruskin, multi-media artist Barbara
Cohen, furniture craftsman Francis
Lemieux, Karen Firus, textile artist
Barbara Head and others.

The point of the show is to
demonstrate that art need not only
be two-dimensional or confined to
walls. On display will be furniture,
sculpture, glass and other media.

The show runs Aug. 5-Sept. 5,

NEWS photo Mike Wakotield
FIT FOR KINGS... A schooner of ale and a platter of fish and

chips at West Vancouver’s King's Fare restaurant.

added a handful of entrees and
appetizers that had nothing to do
with deep-frying: Pan-Fried Garlic
Prawns ($6.95); Cioppioni, a
seafood and tomato stew ($11.95);
a stirfry of prawns, scallops and
vegetables ($11.95); Seafood Pasta
($10.95); salmon or halibut char-
broiled or poached ($11.95).

The new menu items were ob-
viously a tip of the cook's gros
bonnet to cuisines nouveau.
Deep-frying, after ail, is frowned
upon by medical types and other
culinary killjoys.

Table Hopping momentarily
considered sampling the New
Fare, but several platters of the
King’s teal fare whistled by our
table trailing the fine aromas of
fish, potatoes, cooking oils and
vinegars.

LUNCHES
for $5.95
or less

And we were putty in the King’s’

deep-frying hands.

Of course, we started sensibly
with a King’s Fare Caesar salad,
which was simply prepared with a
garlic-heavy dressing and a gener-
ous dusting of Parmesan cheese.

A pair of fish and chip combina-
tion plates followed.

They included the traditional
stack of french fries accompanied
with a chunk of cod and a slab of
halibut, both deep-fried in the
King’s light, crisp batter and both
fresh, firm and full of juice.

Douse the above heavily with
malted vinegar, splash on a side of
ketchup, toss, for a moment, cau-
tion to the wind and enjoy one of
England's great contributions to
world cookery.

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