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LIKE tag team wrestling, the buddy system in the stodge, and four slices of restaurant business is one of the time-tested ways veal beneath their respective

to survive the body slams of a brutal business. stage. for red meat centre

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| by Timothy Renshaw

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Partners Bistro, Lonsdale, was conceived on, and christened after,. that

restaurant’s nightly blackboard special list.

Both dishes were pres- ented with a visually pleasing array of carrot and cauli- flower for veg, white rice for

The Marsala was a pleas- ant semi-sweet, semi-savory veal experience; the Scallopini appeared to be satisfactory though there was a rumbling from across

concept. On its walls hang an assortment of black and white photographs depicting immortal partnerships from past eras that have carried their respective - halves through gauntlets as un- forgiving as those of Hollywood and the silver screen: Laurel and Hardy, Bogart and Bacall, the Three Stooges.

The Lonsdale bistro features the slightly less wacky team of Collin Wade and the appropriately named Graham Kitchen. The two joined forces to slug out a culinary name for themselves in the 35-seat Lonsdale loca- tion (formerly Rita’s lunch bar) four months ago. After an opening few frames of tentative restaurant chaos from their own Bing Crosby and Bob Hope-inspired pro- duction ‘Road to Solvency in the Restaurant Racket,” Wade and Kitchen have established a solid luncheon business.

Armed with an above average chef who specializes in simple Italian cuisine, an informal yet uptempo at- mosphere, and arniable ser- vice spearheaded by the at- tentive and good-humored Wade, Partners has all the ammunition needed to cut a good sized swathe into even- ing dining.

The menu is simple; its prices humble. Overall culi-

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We began with a palatable half litre of beaujolais ($8.25) from the -bistro’s four red and four white bargain-basement wine selection (all bottles are available. in half litre por- tions) and ordered a side order of Caesar Salad ($2.95) and a full order of Partners’ Antipasto ($5.95), all the while guffawing over the endlessly amusing part- nership of marriage.

The Caesar. was a good easy-on-the-garlic, heavy- on-the-crouton rendition of the Roman classic; the an- tipasto plate was an excellent and liberal assortment of Fontina and Swiss cheese, marinated mushrooms, pro- sciutto, salami, ham, and black olives — for the bistro beatnick and the waistline watchdog, almost a meal in itself with a basket of Part- ners homemade Italian bread.

‘Passing over the crepe sec- tion (three choices all $5.95) and the speciality pasta bar (seven in all, linguini to lasagna, half orders $4.95, full orders $6.95), we tackled instead a pair of veal dishes: a Scallopini ($8.95) from Partners’ speciality section; a Marsala ($8.95) from the

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