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You can only turn up the Greek music so loud to compensate for lack of kitchen finesse.

Olympia Sasted for less than a year before its princi- pals departed for new dining

a adventures in lands

B- unknown.

“ Zorba (aka Peter Kavouras) took over the Olympia in. March and sunk -$35,000 and five weeks into repairing che renovation

‘ounds inflicted on the Saffron.

Gone are the gaudy

reck appendages and the crawling green vines applied = to the restaurant’s walls by

‘the Olympians.

» Asimple interior of white-wash, deep green and chimney red tones sur- rounds wood grain chairs and tables and vases of fresh ‘flowers.

2) The restaurant’s entrance now opens into the middle of its dining room, not the ‘thin east-end corridor that ‘served as the restaurant’s original entrance.

Tris a much- ‘improved location.

But, then, Kavouras did not have a tough act to fol- low.

i:, He subsequently chris- tened his restaurant Ariston d opened it on April 6.

~The name, roughly trans- lated from Greek, means

rfect, or 100%, or the

st, depending on your

cient Greek dictionary.

‘Kavouras is nothing if not optimistic..

: Out. of the gate, his

rant has some good ities, buc it is far from up to its name. ¢ will cell whether it me close. ts Opening week it still ironing out the ean ke Us

APPETIZING ARISTON ...

NEWS photo Paul McGrath A selection of cold and hot appetizer platters present-

ed at West Vancouver's Ariston Greek restaurant.

many wrinkles that come with opening a new restau- rant, regardless of how many you have opened in the past and how much experience you might have.

Zorba’s operated for three and a half years at its 530 Hornby St. locale

See Ariston page 32

Lunch Value $6.00, Dinner value $12.00

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