Timothy Renshaw
TABLE HOPPING

O-Tooz the Energie Bar, 1517
Bellevue Ave., West Vancouver.
926-0258. Cash only. Open from
7 a.m. to 9 p.m. Menday to
Friday. Open from 8 a.m. to 9
p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Take
the kids or call a babysitter?
Take the kids.

TTENTION DINERS:

drop that drurnstick;

hands off the gravy
bowl. It's time to tone up the
gastronomic system.

Time to get Energieized. Time
for O-tooz and its carotene-
fueled apple-cheeked serving
folk and low-fat philosophies.

This positive purveyor of
“healthy food, not health food”
opened in mid- -May in the bright
Bellevue Avenue storefront occu-
pied briefly by the less-than-
inspired Cafe Ambles, into which
few folk ambled, mainly because
there was little to recommend
that cappuccino bar's patronage
beyond its being another caffeine

pu

Though blessed with a prime
Bellevue location, Cafe Ambles
missed the bistro bys entirely by
failing to offer anything interest-
ing to eat. And regardless of what
press teports might have you

lieve, the health-conscious and
sober folk of the ‘90s like to eat.

They just prefer to eat some-
thing that promises to do them
some good and perhaps be invig-
orating and non-artery-clogging
and even do the rest of the world
some good at the same time.

O-tooz doesn’t profess to offer
all of the above with each order,
but it comes close.

its menu exudes positive
thinking, reduced calories,
increased fibre and cruciferous
crusading.

It reflects an admirable
approach to dining that bursts
with a gleeful healthful glow. But
it thankfully resists the temptation
to descend into food snobbism
and fanaticism.

This then is a place of food
that is fun and that will make you
feel good about digesting. tts
name is taken from the chemical
symbol for oxygen, which most
of us do better with a lot of.

Excerpts from the restaurant’s
O-tooz News, for instance,

SEPARATE ADMISSION FEATURES

RENAISSANCE MAN
6:50 pm

THE HAWK
9:05

NEWS photo Ailke Wakefield

O-TOOZ FOR yooz ... A healthful selection of Ratatouille,
Italian Gerden Wrap and a special Tropical Fruit and Organic
Greens Salad presented at O-tooz Energie Bar in West

Vancouver.

include discussion of:

* Vegetarians: At O-tooz they
recognize that a lot of diners are
moving away from heavy meat-
based dishes and into the realm
of “semi-vegetarians,” who might
like to down an O-tooz Bali
Chicken Wrap ($4.95) in a whole
wheat tortilla, served with brown
Basmati rice, non-fat yogurt and
toasted sesame seeds. All of
which is high in complex “carbs”
and B vitamins, in case you were
counting carbs or anything else
vital to your well-being.

* Things that are Low in Fat:

such as the O-tooz Genoa Rice
Pot ($4.65), which is served with
Spinach Basil Pesto on brown
Basmati and Manitcba wild rice
and also happens to provide only
- 8% of its calories from fat and
has a fot of soluble fibre for help-
ing you cut cholesterol.
eEnergie: who cares if it's spelled
wrong, it comes dairy-free in O-

SEPARATE ADMISSION FEATURES

LITTLE BUDDHA
7:00 pm

WHEN A MAN LOVES & WOMAN
9:10 pm :

tooz Energie Shakes ($2.35 fora
10 oz. blast; $3.50 for a 16-
ouncer) and Low-Fat Smoothies.
*Eating it Raw: as in an O-tooz
Roadrunner raw juice extrava-
ganza (same price as the above
smoothie) featuring a whopping
six-pack of raw juices (pineapple,
orange, apple, celery, beet and
carrot) in one glass.

¢Topping up on Fibre: with a
host of O-tooz menu items
(Super Grain Hot Cereal, oatmeal
with raisins, apples, cinnamon
and apple juice: smai! $2.25;
large $3.25) or Moosejaw Muesli
(small $2.50; large $3.50).
*Cruciferousness: as contained
in such Warrior Foods as cab-
bage, cauliflower and broccoli
anid more specifically Dr. Duke’s
Salad (smal! $2.95; large $3.95
for a cruciferous collection of
cabbage, bell peppers, cauli-

See Cavalcade page 37

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SEPARATE ADMISSION FEATURES

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7:10pm

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9:15 pm

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