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Seafood restaurant celebrates birthday

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In concert with that homegrown theme, the restaurant produces all its own breads, pastries and fruit flans and smokes the salmon that makes up its wonderful hot-smok- ed Indian Candy ($5.95).

Windows also sheds light on some formerly dark Heritage Room corners.

The heavily-bound and odiously weighty Heritage Room menu has been replaced, with, egads sir!, Windows’ handwritten menu sheet.

The expensive entrce aristocracy has been quietly retired and replaced with lighter, less expen- sive meals that are short on pretense, but long on imagination and style.

Grill of local rabbit ($13.95), for instance, comes with apple spirals, braised leeks and baby carrots, while breasts taken from free- range chickens ($11.95) are oven- poached in a rhubarb-cranberry compote.

A quick perusal of the restau- rant’s appetizer list will yield no nachos, no chicken wings and, God forbid, no escargots.

Instead: Baby eggplant in- terleafed with hot-house tomatoes, garnished with Vancouver Island goat cheese and olive oil ($3.95); or Scallops and. Peppercorn sausage in saffron herb sauce ($5.50).

Windows also provides a special Taster’s Corner section replete with an ever-changing selection of sample plates for one ($5.95) or two ($7.25) or four ($10.25) curious nibblers.

Following Chow’s animated in- troduction to the restaurant, my wife and I sampled a Tartare of Yellow Fin Tuna ($6.95) and a

The Robson Street Irish strong- hold will celebrate its first St. Patrick’s Day since the restau- rant’s recent reconstruction with a suitably Irish wearing of the green.

The March things green and things Irish will be hurrahed at O’Doul’s with a Bit o’ Blarney Party that will include green beer, Irish entertainment and other Irish festivities such as hotel tours, traditional Irish cuisine and the custe.aary drowning of the shamrock.

Participants are advised to dig

out full green regalia for the cele- brations. SEA MATES SEAFOOD RES- TAURANT, 998 MARINE DRIVE, NORTH VANCOUVER, 980-1213

One of the North Shore’s favorite centres of good quality,

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bargain seafood is currently celebrating its 12th anniversary with a grand revival of such bargain standbys as Tiger Prawns ($10.95) and the Grilled Seafood Platter ($13.95), a whopping selec- tion of Alaska King Crab legs, Tiger Prawns, salmon, snapper and oysters.

Sea Mates waiter Mike Barnes recently illustrated another good reason for patronizing the restau- rant with his receipt of the coveted American Express Big Tip Award, handed out annually to the waiter exhibiting the best overall service and attitude credentials.

Barnes, who has worked at Sea Mates for eight years, was unable to attend the Feb. 25 American Express ceremonies at the Pan Pacific Hotel. His $100 cheque will be sent to him in the mail.

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. Blended with green onions it is a superb appetizer and is served with three endive leaves, each filled with separate portions of Japanese ginger slices, outspoken green wasabi horseradish and thin yellow pickled onion strips.

.The salad, presented beneath a walnut oi! dressing, was also very good,

-For main entrees, we chose the Roast Loin of Saltspring Lamb ($14.95) and the Confit of Aldergrove Duckling spiced with raspberry and honey sauce ($12.95).

Both dishes were presented with green snow peas and a pair of baby carrots.

The lamb, medium rare, was laid out in a fan. Unfortunately, the advertized mushroom sausage was missing. But the elegant quatro herb sauce, inspired with a Peachland fruit chutney, coaxed the best from the local lamb.

The duckling was first rate. Preserved in savory duck fat, it was-a refreshing change from a /a orange predictability.

The evening’s dessert selection featured an array of flans with marvellously dense, raisin-speckled

_ crusts.

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