THE THAILL of the Grill...
Seafood and Grill In West Vancouver.

The thril

West Vancouver Seafood and Grill, 2168 Marine Dr., West Van-
couver. 922-3312. Visa, MasterCard, American Express accepted.
Open every day for dinner. Open Monday to Saturday for lunch.
Open Sunday for brunch. Take the kids or call a babysitter? Call

a babysitter.

OOL ATLANTIC airs have been replaced by warm
Indian Ocean breezes at the West Vancouver

Seafood and Grill.

The restaurant’s multi-hued
green walls have given way to
shades of taupe and rose.

And with that interior warmth
_ has come anew and more inter-

esting menu.

The Grillreplaced Chesa

‘ Seafood and Grillin 1990 when
Gary ard Diana Chalk, along with
Gail Schmidt, bought the restau-
rant they were managing.

The trio’s management had
brought a certain neighborly grace
to the restaurant’s persona; the
trio’s purchase of the Grill allowed
them to bring their enlightened
culinary philosophy to their
clientele and to the good folk of
West Vancouver.

That approach is elementary but
all too rare in the restaurant trade:
prepare all your restaurant’s food
on the premises with pure, fresh
ingredients.

The philosophy is seeded in the
‘Grill owners’ desire to maintain
product quality from start to finish
and nourished in their confidence
in the skills of the Grill’s kitchen
staff. Those skills are considerable.

Saturdays only
on 10 selected items
on our 29 item Dim

Timothy Renshaw

TABLE HOPPING

Virtually everything served at the
Griffis made in its kitchen, from
the selection of herb, white and.
wholewheat breads presented be-
fore meals through to the selection
of enticing desserts.

So at the Grill, you get Grill
cooking, not Grill surroundings
with some Grill cooking and some
imported cooking.

And Grill cooking is well worth
sampling; there is something for
each of the senses in a Gril/ meal.

The restaurant's menu is that of
a good West Coast seafood house,
with a tight focus on fish and
shellfish presented with a good

Live Crab
cooked

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NEWS Photo Cindy Goodman

4. steaming bowl of Cioppine decorates a tabie at the West Vancouver

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balance of simplicity and flam-
boyance.

Chef Mark Scott wisely allows
the flavors of the seafood to speak
for themselves, adding his imagi-
native culinary support where
necessary.

Entree prices are reasonable (39
to $15), and while the restaurant's
wine list is comparatively pricey
(bottles range from $20 up to $40),
all the Grill’s wines are available
by the glass — a most enlightened
approach to wine marketing.

Gary Chalk has advised that the
restaurant’s wine will be changed
soon, but the Grill will continue to
provide its patrons with the option
of sampling all offerings by the
glass as part of its philosophy of
tailoring what it serves to the
needs of its clientele.

On a recent Friday night, Table
Hopping sampled a Pedroncelli
Pinot Noir ($23), a well-made wine
from California’s Sonoma Valley.

We followed with a Warm Tiger
Prawn Salad ($6.95) and Home-
made Gravedlox ($6.25).

Both were quality openers.

The Tiger Prawn Salad included

See Fare page 38

Wednesday, April 29, 1992 — North Shore News ~ 34

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