20 - Wednesday, March 21, 1996 - North Shore News

" phote Cindy Goodman

A RACK of ribs guaranteed to stick to the ribs...Lisa and Sean Bjornson
of Torchy’s restaurant in Edgemont Village offer good, simple food in a
good, simple neig::borhood restaurant.

Torchy’s an antidote
to the fancy, phoney

Torchy’s, 1050 West Queens,
North Vancouver, 987-7444. Visa,
Mastercard, American Express
accepted. Wheelchair accessible.
Open Monday to Satruday for
lunch and dinner. Open for din-
ner Sunday.

FTER a working week

spent sampling com-

plex sauces, studying
the life of Auguste Escoffier
and leafing through the New
York Times collection of ad-
jectives for food critics, |
sometimes get the urge to
get my head out of the gas-
tronomic clouds.

Torchy’s is a good place to
make that return to ground level.
The restaurant was opened in

1987 by the nephew and niece of .

the original Torchy Pechet, and it

TIMOTHY
RENSHAW!

table hopping

has been mining a rich vein of
neighborliness and solid basic Ca-
nadian cuisine ever since.

It remains family-run and fami-
ly-patronized.

Torchy’s food is also family-
honest: hamburgers ($5 to $6,
children’s $2.95); meat and
potatoes, fish and chips; steaks,
chicken and ribs (nothing over
$12.95).

Of course, the preceding is a

See Torchy’s
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