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Cordon Bleu Cafe, 250 East Ast St. North Vancouver, 987-0789. Visa and MasterCard accepted. Open Thursday, Friday and Saturday night for. dinner; open Monday to Friday for lunch. Vegetarian options? Few. Take the kids or call a babysitter? You could do either.

Menu for tonight:

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¢ Wild Mushroom in Porto Sauce ($5.95)

¢ Salmon marinated in Whisky ($13.50)

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© Profiteroles ($4.75)

A new chapter for Chef Page.

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tales than previous chapters, but it is no less satisfying. Indeed, for those who prefer fine foods with their happy endings, it will be a most enjoyable serving.

But first a foreword into the past: Gerard Page joins Michel Segur in the launch of Chez Michel restaurant in West Vancouver way back in 1979. The North Shore’s western- Most province gets its first authentic French bistro. And the Segur/Page partnership

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initiates what has become one of the longest serving and most consistently enjoyable French food sagas north of Burrard Inlet.

Page later departs Chez Michel to stoke the fine grills of La Belle Sole, another French-style restaurant in West Vancouver — this one in 3 sec- ond-storey location overlook- ing Bellevue Avenue that now houses Mark Sager’s Infiston restaurant.

La Belle, too, meets with much local success. But after six years of running the West Vancouver restaurant with two other partners, Page sells La Belle and embarks on assorted culinary adventures that include a stint at the Pan Pacific Hotel, a returr: to France and a stint at the Chef and Carpenter restaurant in

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In 1993, he returns to Chez Michel (passionate accor- dion music here; tearful reunion scene.) to again add. his deft kitchen touch to Segur’s now well-cstablished and highly regarded second- storey restaurant.

C’est finis, mon ami? Curtain down. Much applause. Mais, non.

Monsieur Page has aspira- tions well beyond Chez Michel’s kitchen. He is a high energy French chef. He oper- ates his own catering business; and he can sec himself in his own kitchen in his own restau- rant.

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