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Wednesday, December 1S. 1990 -- North Shore News - 31

Cafe breakfasts pricier but still a good deal

From page 30

Especially when they arrive with
a full family contingent, and
especially when the younger
members of that contingent are
still suffering the ill effects of a
morning cartoon jag.

And most upscale restaurants
that serve breakfast are still recov-
ering from the night before at 9
a.m.

So the possibilities for culinary
catastrophies abound. Which is
probably why most restaurants
don’t serve breakfast.

But I'll bet a lot of folk would
applaud the efforts of more restau-
rants to enter the breakfast arena
with their best gastronomic gladia-
tors.

Breakfast can be such a civilized
meal. For one thing, restaurant
breakfasts are something mest
people indulge in only while they
are en vacation: for another it is
such a nice time of the day to be
waited on.

Cafe Boulevard is one of the few
independent, full-service restau-
rants on the North Shore to offer a
breakfast menu that is more than
the traditional two-eggs-any-style
and schooners-of-coffee fare.

Table Hopping last sampled the
restaurant's wares early last year,
soon after it opened.

The Boulevard changed hands

Bue to our tremendous Pre-G.ST. New Car
inventoried with trade-ins. They
Hurry, sale ends December

to purchase.

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1990 CHRYSLER ACCLAIM 1987 JEEP CHEROKEE 1989 TOYOTA TERCE

2.5 E.FJ. engine, auto, air cond., tilt,
cruise, tinted glass, p/steering, child-proof
safety locks, electric rear defrost, balance
of yr. warranty. Payments based over 60
mo. TP. $17,340 plus tax.

You BUY for $339 per month
or LEASE for $289 per month olus tax

Ptymouth GA Voyager, AFF. V6, loaded
Plymouth Cott 200. auto, 4 door
Plymouth Relant. auto, pis, 4 door
Ptymouth Retant, clean — 2 door
Pymmeuth Sundance, auto, pis, 4 door

Cheyslet Daytona, auto, pfs, 2 door

V6. canopy. auton, club cab, Sunroot
LE, full load —~ as new

Forerunner, 5 sod., V6, SAS, 4 doce,
mm, aula, aw, cassette

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during the surimer, and while the
initial enthusiasm has waned and
the initial robust energy of the
food presented appears to have
been exhausted, the restaurant still
has a lot to offer the discerning
breakfast diner.

The Boulevard’s current morn-
ing menu is simpler than its origi-
nal version. For some the change
means a loss of pre-noon flam-
bovance; for others it will mean a
dispatching of marning pretension.

Prices are higher than they were,
but breakfast menu selection re-
mains interesting.

An English Grill (now $7.95;
$6.25 back in ’89) continues to be
a breakfast to be reckoned with:
two eggs (any way you like ‘em)}
served with ham, bacon, twa
sausages, grilled tomatoes, pan-
fried potatoes and fresh
mushrooms.

The meal also comes with four
pieces of granary bread toast, a
dish of strawberry jam and a gar-
nish of honeydew and cantalouve
melon.

It's an all-day breakfast for most
people.

And for the more adven-
turesome, the Boulevard still offers
such breakfast entrees as Bratwurst
($7.95) which comes with two
eggs, sauerkraut, pan-fried
potatoes and toast, and Eggs

Laredo Model, fully equipped.
#907103
WAS $13,985

pre-Gsir. Price >t 7,780

pach Con, auto,
1984 Crysler New

ols, pr. auto, clean

Mazatlan ($7.95; $6.25 in early
"B9), which presents poached eggs
Mexican-style.

The selection comes with eggs
beneath a mild red tomato salsa,
lashings of sour cream and a half
avocado crown.

It’s colorful, lively, and very
gocd.

A sampled French Toast ($6.50
now: $4.95 way back when) in-
cluded four slices of sourdough
bread topped with slices of banana
and accompanied with a dish of
maple syrup.

The bread slices were smalier
and thinner than those served on
last year’s Table Hopping visit, but
the plate had a colortul presenta-
tion and the toast was consumed
with much enthusiasm.

The interior of Cafe Boulevard
retains the myriad black and white
ar.d color photos of movie and
television stars installed by its orig-
inal owners, and the restaurant has
been around long enough now to
have cultivated a regular clientele
and a good neighborly at-
mosphere,

But elsewhere some signs of
wear are showing and some of the
restaurant’s original polish has
faded:

Crockery bears the chips and
scratches of a thousand breakfasts,
lunches and dinners.

Sales Prometion, we are over-
are now fully senviced and ready for you

Automatic, only 71,000 kms.
Nice clean car.

WAS 23,035

Pre-GST. Price $2,857

Chrysler New Yorker, tull cad, clean
Peugeot 505 Turto leather, loaded. aut. serviced
Toyota SRS Tercei, 5 spd, amvim cassette
Plymoutt. Caravelle, Aft,
‘Chiryster Lebaron, tull toad, 2.
1805 Chrysler 5th Ave, V8, sear drive
Plymouth Relat, 4 dr, aut, clean
3 GOO,
ker, auto, leather
_ Chrysler New Yorker, auta, pis, good clean car
Crysler Sth Avenve, full load, clean
Chryster New Yorker, auto, pis good, clean
Dodge Anes. auto, 2.2. 4 dow
1983 Auies, new engine. auto, ciean, ait

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Ford LID. ovginal kms, good cond

Renauit Athance, 5 speed, stereo, clean

1982 Chiyster Filth Ave. loaded, owner, clean
1981 Dodge Anes, auto, 3 door

Doage Omni, aula, o's. one owner

1960 Toyota Tercel, avia, 2 over

1927 Volvo 245 OL. avsto, 4 door,

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Cappuccinos, once served
layered in elegant glass mugs,
were served on our visit, in less-
appealing regular white coffee
mugs.

But Cafe Boulevard still serves a
breakfast that is better than most
on the North Shore. So if you feel
the urge to escape from the kitch-
en Saturday morning, but yuu
don’t fee! like fleeing from the
home frying pan into the diner
grease pit, head up to Edgemont
Village.

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