16 - Wednesday, December 27, 1989 - North Shore News

No longer 130 Ibs

A NOSE for nosh....Table Hopping Timothy Renshaw dined his way through the 1980s. He shares the highlights of that gastronomic trip with readers in today’s column.

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RENSHAW NAMES DECADE’S BEST

DON’T know about you, but for me, dining through the 1980s was an extremely nourishing and broadening

experience.

My Table Hopping assignment began in the mid-’80s. | was 130 pounds.

Today, !'m still Table Hopping. But fam no longer 130 pounds.

And while my digestive tract has occasionally taken a pounding, my tastebuds have been afforded a crash course in gastronomy.

Overail, { am a richer person, calorie-wise if not money-wise, for the past five years.

In an attempt to spread those riches around, | have tried to in- clude here some of the highlights of my 1980s Table Hopping expe- rience.

The restaurants listed below share the elusive characteristics of quality, elegance, style and lon- gevity.

| have slso included a few good restaurants that, through various reasons peculiar to the service trade, are no longer with us, but for that time when they were, cast an inspiring light across the local dining landscape.

As is chronically the case with best-of lists, somebody's best selection will be left out.

This list is not meant as an in- dictment of those North Shore res- taurants not included here, but rather a tribute to those that are.

Risking, then, the wrath of the dining public and the restaurant trade behold in alphabetic order Table Hopping’s best of the 1980s: BISTRO PICCOLO, 770 MARINE DRIVE, WEST VANCOUVER, 926-0833

Hans Kaltenbach, chef and owner of this smail restaurant on the eastern edge of West Van- couver, has been entertaining a loyal but select clientele with his excellent European cuisine since

1985. The restaurant is unpretentious and its prices are reasonable. For Kaltenbach’s Sour Cream Cake, alone, the Bistrois worth a visit.

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CAFE ROMA, 60 SEMISCH, NORTH VANCOUVER, 984-0274 AND CORSI TRATTORIA, 1 LONSDALE, NORTH VAN- COUVER, 987-9910

This marvellous Italian one-two punch provides fans of Italy’s wide and wonderful cuisine with the option of a large and exuberant Italian restaurant and menu at Cafe Rome or a small and intimate restaurant and menu at Corsi Trat- toria.

And that punch is available within several blocks in the Lower Mainiand area.

Both restaurants are run by Marto and Antonio Corsi.

The brothers nave invested their culinary skills and dedication in presenting authentic examples of their native cuisine to the North Shore in both Roma and Trattoria formats. The pavofft is reaped by their patrons.

CAPERS, 2496 MARINE DRIVE, WEST VANCOUVER, 925-3316

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