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ROSSINGS IS fast

approaching a fork

in the dining road ahead, and it’s not from a wayward table setting.

Timothy Renshaw TABLE HOPPING

The restaurant opened in late 1987 with balloons, streamers, of- ficial speeches and mayoral rib- bon-cuttings.

Its full name was the Pacific Orient Line Crossings Restaurant, and it came outfitted with a full sushi bar, an upstairs first-class cruise-ship dining motif and a lower-deck steerage-class light snacks bistro and bar.

The vessel was proudly skip- pered by Peter lacus, former part- ner in Vancouver's Fresgo Inn.

Culinary voyages departed daily from Crossings’ location at the en- trance to the North Shore SeaBus station.

And those voyages continue to- day. But after almost five years of plying the often stormy waters of the local restaurant trade, Cross- ings is in need of a refit.

The sushi bar, for example, was lost at sea in one of Crossings’ earlier voyages.

The carpets leading to the first- class dining deck are showing some signs of wear, and the res-

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CAPTAIN CROSSINGS...Peter lacus readying his Crossings res- taurant for new a new culinary course.

taurant’s menu is getting tired.

But lacus is not the type of skip- per to abandon ship and leave his passengers and crew to fight over the remaining lifeboats.

He has, instead, chosen to chart a new course.

And for all those who appreciate the restaurant’s great harborside location and who lament the dearth of late-night cappuccino and light-meal locales in North

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Vancouver, that new course wilt sound extremely promising. During a Table Hopping meal at Crossings in late February, lacus, decked out in kitchen whites, outlined his plans to transform his restaurant from a purveyor of big-plate entrees to a split-level bistro combining some of the elements that have made Star- bucks and the Bread Garden such

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