| Special This Week

Pacific Sole “Bellevue” . $9.95
Grilled Liver w/Glazed Onions $9.95
Savoury Roast Lamb $9.95

| West Coast Seafood Medley $9.95.

Roast Prime Rib Thursday, Friday ard Saturday evenings

TY Sar 445 - 13th Street ® Wost Vancouver
13th & Marine @ Ambieside

926- 8922

"February Specials

Dinner -
Ariston Greek Style
Spare Ribs
$12.95
Double Chicken Breast
Oreganato
89.95

Lunch
Chicken or Lamb Gyros
$6.95

Dolkmathes

Choice of meat or vegetarian
$6.95

All the above served with Greek Salad, rice,
roast potatoes, pita bread & tzatziki

Catering Service Available

Wes? Vancouver's Only Authentic Greek Restourons

a ze 1425 Marine Drive, West Vancouver
For Reservations Call: 925-0070

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RESTAURANT
a'734 Marine Drive, West Vancouver

SOUP OF ne DAY
FRESH SHRIMP COCKTAIL

served on chiffonade of butter lertuce

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GRILLED HALIBUT

served with saffron rice, red pepper beurre blanc

BROILED N.Y. STEAK

served with garlic whipped potatces,
peppercorn sauce

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HOMEMADE APPLE PIE

served warm
“THE MERINGUE SWAN"
Regular monu price $34

Bring in this ad to receive set menu for
$16.95

(Offer valid until February 12/99)

ATTENTION fellow
99ers, the 20th centu-
ry is fast heading into
the dustbin of history,
Before it’s gone there’s
still a whole lot of
digesting to do. That
includes the dining
trade.

Below tind a rw selection
of local dining n-ws items to
chew upon.

The regular Table
Hopping four-course review
will rerurn in the next
episode

Village Bistro, 3135
Edgemont Bivd., North
Vancouver, 980-5535.

Managerial changes have
again taken place at this once-
booming restaurant.

When the original Village
Bistro Boys rolled out of this
Edgemont Village gem last
year and headed for the more
lucrative hills of West
Vancouver, their compact
high energy diner could have
fallen into far less capable
hands.

Tt could have been
hijacked by misguided quick
buck artists and turned into a
slipshod short-order house of
pancakes or worse.

Instead it fell last May into
the warm and congenial
hands of Alberto and Maria

Sabatucci.

north shore news

% DINING

A tale of two N. shore bistros

= :
PHOTO Cectus Club Cate

CACTUS Club bossmen Scott Morison (left) and Richard Jaffray recently opened
their newest Cactus Club on West Broadway in Vancouver.

While the Bistro Boys fan
club scam ered west in hot
ursuit of Joc Verri, Shawn
erger and their new restau-
rant, the Sabatuccis set about
shoring up the bistro they
vacated.
Tt was a tough act to fol-
low.

They inherited a good
name and a good location.

But they added to it that
special passion for food and

mily that elevates good
Italian restaurants above most
others.

Alas, however, the
Sabatuccis left the Village
Bistro last weekend, bound
for a restaurant of their own
in the Vancouver area, which
is something they haven’t had

1448 WAanice Dr.
West Vnncouver
922-4719

since they !eft their long-lived
Valentino’s in Vancouver's
Dunbar area .

Immediately before taking
on the Village Bistro they ran
a business that manufactured
hand-made pasta.

The Village Bistro had
been one of the Sabatuccis’
pasta customers prior to their
taking over its management.

And they brought that
pasta expertise with them to
the Village. For example,
their tortelloni — special
jumbo tortellini hand-stuffed
with a peppery ground chick-
en and served in a rich toma-
to cream sauce topped with
fresh basil leaves — was first
class.

No word yet on who will

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Seafood
Canneioni
Served with
rice

Golden
Fried
Prawns
Served with
potato

mixed salad
Offer valid until February 13/99

take over the Bistro’s opera-
ton.
Stay tuned for Bistro
developments.
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As for the Bistro Boys and
their Ambleside Bistro
(Ambleside Ristro, 235 15th
St. West Vancouver, 922-
7678; fax: 922-7898): the
joine is jumpin’, a3 it has been
from the outset. _

On a recent Friday night,
the unflappable Joc Pern
presided over wave after wave
of Bistro clientele. “Table for

402” “Right this way.” No
such buzz at previous restau-
rant tenants in the second-
storey Bellevue and 15th

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Sole
Almondine
Served with

Shrimp Stuffed
Chicken Mornay
Served with rice

All entrees include soup p of

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} Seafood & Steak House

H Open 7 days from 5:30pm

12070 Marine Dr., N.Van.

980-2611 |

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