32 - Wednesday, November 15, 1989 - North Shore News

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Woodbine Inn a home away fr

THE NEW WOODSINE INN,
3043 WOODBINE DRIVE,
NORTH VANCOUVER, 985-8115
GR 985-7812. VISA, MASTER-
CARD, AMERICAN EXPRESS AC-
CEPTED. WHEELCHAIR AC-
CESSIBLE. OPEN MONDAY TO
SATURDAY FROM 11:38 A.M.
AND FROM 4:30 P.M. SUNDAY.

E NEW Woodbine
inn is much the sarne
as the old Woodbine

Inn: an unpretentious
purveyor of basic Chinese
food and extraordinary
neighborliness.

Prior to his deaih in July 1987,
Haroid Chu invested his personal
warmth and profound restaurant

TIMOTHY
RENSHAW2

table hopping

knowledge in the old Woodbine.

The result was a place a lot of
people calied home, which is an
achievement by any measure
because a lot of people don’t even
call home home.

It is te Mr. Chu‘s eternal credit
and to the credit of the Wood-
bine’s new ownership, who took
over in July from the original new
Woodbine owners, that the res-
taurant remains a place with the
casual appeal of your own living
room.

The new Woodbine’s interior
has been upgraded since my first
visit from the original combination
of woodgrain walls and oddball
interior knick-knacks accumulated
by Mr. Chu and reflective of his
personality.

Its walls and tablecloths are now
soft pink, and its wall hangings are
restricted to subdued paintings.

And the new Woadbine Inn’s
menu has a far more professional
look to it than its predecessor.

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INVITING families and other Woodbine inn {ans to sample the restaurart’s new look and new menu are owner David Tong and assistant man-

ager Linda Chang. The New Woodbine Inn remains 2 good neighborhood dining locale for Chinese-style food.

There is still the advertised Ca-
nadian-Chinese cussine, which,
like a roadside hazard sign on the
gastronomic highway, screams:
Warning, greasy food and other
slumgullion ahead; sensitive
stomachs use a!ternate route.

However, the Chinese selectior.
sampled by the family Table Hop-

ping team on a recent Saturday
night were rudimentary but show-
ed reasonable skill and attention
to culinary detail.

The new Woorlbine’s menu in-

cludes such interesting-sounding .

entries >- “pareriiz: with Spicy Salt
Imperial Pork Chops
Lettuce Wraps ($10.95)

"4525;
Wu. 45d,

($8.50),

Hedy Klassen owner |

f of the Muffin Break
(307 Marine Drive) is
pleased to
nounce the appoint-
ment of Heather
Smith as __ store |
manager. Heather
invites her many
friends and former |

customers to come in f

and enjoy our muf-
fins and coffee.

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and various curried and otherwise
spicy dishes.

Service, as is the Woodbine Inn
trademark, came with smiles and
courtesy — no extra charge.

Children, as always, are wel-
come.

Mine were immediately treated
to a simple soda and grenadine

concaction by maitre d’ and res-
taurant owner David Tong.

The mix matched the Wood-
bine’s tablecloths — indication of
astute restaurant thinking and
awareness of wee folk enthusiasm
for spilling liquids.

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