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Anatoli’s gets even bigger

50 SEATS TO BE ADDED

UST EATEN, right? No room !eft for a full restaurant review? In the interests of watching waistlines and headlines Table Hopping staff has rustled up a mess ‘o smaller restaurant items for your consumption. The full-course restaurant review will appear in the next

Table Hopping column.

ANATOLI SOUVLAKI, 162-5 LONSDALE AVENUE, NORTH VANCOUVER, 985-7345

Another major renovation of this enduringly popular Lower Lons- dale Greek restaurant is scheduled to be completed this week and

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will add approximately 50 seats to the current 95.

A growing clientele forced Anatolito expand three years ago to fill the back section of what was an adjacent clock shop.

The latest expansion will add the front end of the clock shop to Anatoli, thereby doubling the res- taurant’s street-side window seating space.

An upper floor mezzanine area will contain 35 seats and a fireplace. It will be available for special functions.

The new main-floor indoor courtyard dining area will be used primarily as a holding lounge facil- ity for the restaurant's clientele.

And for those who find parking in Lower Lonsdale a trial of nerves and patience, especially on an empty stomach, Anatoli has reserved five parking spots during the day at Versatile’s parking lot

on the northeast corner of Lons- dale and Esplanade.

After 6 p.m. the entire parking lot is oper for Lower Lonsdale patrons.

THE NEW WOODBINE INN, 3043 WOODBINE, NORTH VANCOUVER, 985-8115.

The Woodbine has always been a good neighborhood restaurant, serving generous portions of neighborly goad spirits and basic but respectable quality Chinese- Canadian cuisine.

And now the restaurant’s management has decided to add a new musical twist to the Wood- bine’s appeal by featuring live jazz every Friday and Saturday night.

Providing the be-bop wili be Stan ‘‘Cuddies” Johnston and his quartet — a g90d chance to mix noodles with Cuddles.

YIP’S WOK, 230 LONSDALE AVENUE, NORTH VANCOUVER, 987-3303

Anew Chinese food restaurant in the Lower Lonsdale area, Yip’s offers a fairly standard selection of traditional Chinese-Canadian grub: Chow Meins, Chop Sueys, Sweet and Sours, etc.

But within the regulation ap- pears the odd curry and Szechuan dish.

Prices lock reasonable.

THE LONSDALE QUAY HOTEL, 123 CARRIE CATES COURT, NORTH VANCOUVER, 986-6111.

Though the smallest of the 20 hotels competing in the Blue Plate Special fundraiser for the Van- couver Children’s Hospital, the Quay finished first overall, serving a total of 734 dishes and raising $2,276 for the hospital.

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cent expansion at the popular Lower Lonsdale Greek restaurant with carpenter Costas Silvitis. Work on Anatoli’s new indoor courtyard din- ing area is expected to be completed this week.

The fundraiser, which had hotels selling weekly Blue Plate specials made up from recipes supplied by the participants, began in March.

The specials sold for $8.75, and $3 from each dish went to the Children’s Hospital.

In all, the competing hotels cooked up $17,250 worth of Blue Plate lunches and brunches.

THE SEVENTH ANNUAL B.C. WINE COMPETITION AWARDS DINNER.

The excellent five-course meal was prepared by Raintree Restau- rant chef Rebecca Dawson; the 99 wines sampled by the competi- tion’s judges were prepared by wineries from all over B.C.

The combination provided another successful showcase of B.C.'s food and wine talents, which are surely a match for those anywhere in the world.

Hosted June 15 by the PNE at its Dogwood Pavilion restaurant, the awards dinner featured such delightful courses as Home-Smok- ed Rabbit and Chicken Sausage with a Sweet Pepper Chutney and roasted Wild Spring Salmon wrapped in Nori and presented with basil butter sauce.

Accompanying wines of note included a crisp 1988 Gray Monk Cellars Pinot Gris and an excellent 1988 Chateau St. Clair Gewurz-

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traminer, The former won a bronze medal and the iatter won a silver medal at the event.

Mission Hill Vineyards’ 1989 Private Reserve Botrytis Affected Optima dessert wine, another silver-medal winner, was also sur- prisingly good.

it was served with a britliant- colored plate of Optima Maserated Strawberries with puff pastry and delivered luscious soft peach fla- ve

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In all, 33 medals were bestowed on B.C. wineries at the dinner.

Best of Show honors went to the 1989 johannisberg Dry Riesling from Gehringer Bros. estate winery and the 1987 White Riesling Icewine from Hainle Vineyards estate winery, both of which were gold medal winners.

Other gold meda! winners in- cluded Gray Monk Cellars’ 1985 Ehrenfelser Auslese, Gehringer Bros. 1989 Pinot Auxerrois, 1.G Bright & Co.’s 1988 Vaseaux Cellars Pinot Blanc and Cartier Wines and Beverages’ 1985 Reserve Selection Chancellor.

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