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“LA Cucina chet Greg Tiberio Faedo's North Vancouver restaurant.

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La Cucina joins two-decade club

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La Cucina, 1509. Marine Dr., North Vancouver, 986- 1334. Visa, MasterCard and. American Express accepted. Open for dinner Monday to Saturday. Open for lunch Monday to Friday. Fully _ licensed. Vegetarian options? A few. Take the kids or call a babysitter? Call a babysit- ter.

Menu for tonight:

© Glass of Col di Sasso ($6.50)

© Tortellini In Brodo

© House special Buffalo Mozzarella salad ($10.95) © Grilled Sea Bass ($23.95) © Osso Bucco special ($21.95)

' ($4.75)

HIS restaurant quietly entered the Two

_ Decade Club last year.

Nothing to sneeze at, there. Exclusive membership, don’t you know.

On the North Shore few white-tablecloth restaurants qualify. -

Make that few white-. tablecloth restaurants any- where in the Lower Mainiand.

Restaurant lifespans at at

that end of the market aren't measured in years, lec alone decades. Mouths would be closer to reality.

Such is the fickleness of the business.

So what has Tiberio Faedo got that most other restaurant owners don’t?

Id suggest a strong sense of styie and consistency; and a sound northern Italian grounding in what makes a good meal and what makes a good restaurant experience.

All of those elements are at the core of La Cucina.

If the name springs not immediately to mind, you're excused.

It’s not the latest local dining room of the month.

fc Just remains one of the “~ best. .

The 1509 Marine Dr. location has been in the capable hands of Mr. Faedo ~ since 1979 — the year the former Cafe des Alpes, Park. -” Royal Hotel, Cannery waiter. took ownership of the bank- rupt Kyprios taverna from, the receiver.

Back then $2,000 got you. a well-worn building and a: handful of abandoned ° Kyprios chairs. Back when

- Greck tavernas were all the. rage.

So it was from spartan es beginnings that the restaura- | teur born near Venice into a family that included four sis. ters took on his own restau-

_ fant in Canada.

He’s never locked back.”

La Cucina is not a high-* profile affair. No need for. - that. Itj just carries on deliv.

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