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A boisterous oyster bar

Ya Ya‘’s Oyster Bar, 6418 Bay St., Horseshoe Bay, 921-8848. Open every day from 11:30 a.m. Visa and Mastercard ac- cepted. Take the kids or call a babysitter? Call a babysitter.

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Timothy Renshaw TABLE HOPPING

ITH THE gentle

breezes of sum-

mer building on the horizon, it is time for Table Hopping to load up the old VW microbus and check out some of the resorts of the Greater North Shore area.

Horseshoe Bay is a good place to start. It has good resort bloodlines, being a renowned fish- ing hole and summer retreat be- fore it began hosting ferry trans- portation in the early 1920s.

Little wonder then that its popu- lation is booming and its commer- cial vitality is growing.

And Horseshoe Bay’s resort per- sona is developing along with its physical growth.

On hot summer days, with fer- ties regularly disgorging their cargoes, Horseshoe Bay becomes the North Shore's Sausalito.

Places like Ya Ya’s have helped showcase the area’s great natural

- bayside attributes from the per- colating Bay Street strip and, in the process, helped develop a vigor- ous area personality.

Run by Chilean-born Alex Von Kleist, Ya Ya’s is a raucous neighborhood watering hole and informal dining room.

Its big open central bar pumps out a good assortment of ales, stouts and lagers; its kitchen pro- duces a good basic selection of seafood and meat dishes bearing American, Mediterranean and Latin American influences.

The restaurant's wine list is small, but extremely diner-friendly in that ali bottles are also offered by the naif litre.

Chilean wines are featured. Tocornal Cabernet-Merlot, the house red, is a good value at $12.95 per litre.

Ya Y2’s clientele, as with an port town, is a colorful mob o seadogs, landlubbers, tourists, homeboys, artistes, blue collars, white collars and native Bay folk.

The restaurant's internal per- sonality ebbs and flows with the arrival and departure of ferries

Luneh and Dinner From Tuesday to Saturday

NEWS pheto Mike Wakefield

YA YA you say?...A spread of fish and chips and oysters and chips with a schconer of ale beckons from a table at Ya Ya's

Oyster Bar in Horseshoe Bay.

bound for Vancouver Island, the Sunshine Coast and Bowen Island.

That mood of arrival and depar- ture adds a sense of urgency to the conversation and activity within Ya Ya’s.

A window seat provides a street-side view of the endlessly entertaining Horseshoe Bay human parade.

The restaurant's menu has been updated since Table Hopping’s last visit. It includes more entrees ($10 to $16) and hamburgers ($6.25 to $7.50). But Ya Ya‘s kitchen focus remains seafoed and shellfish.

There are eight oyster variations, from a half-dozen Raw on the Halfshell ($6.25) through to such oysterian exotica as Oysters Lisbon ($7.95) and Oysiers Bombay ($7.95).

For something to set the mouth ablaze, sample an Oysters Fuego ($7.95): six oysters on the half shell gently baked beneath a red South American hot sauce that combines a full-contact pepper bite offset with a slightly sweet backdrop.

Very entertaining.

Next up: Portuguese Chicken ($9.95). The dish is outfitted with corkscrew french fries and thick boiled carrot spears and broccoli topped with Parmesan cheese.

The half chicken is roasted in a Mediterranean oil, lemon and herb combination that is piquant, but somewhat salty.

This is a big entree that requires a big huager.

An evening's special Por- tuyzuese-style Calamari ($8.95) was also sampled.

The selection featured whole squid pan-fried in olive oil and garlic and was very good.

Service at Ya Ya‘s is informal but efficient.

Entertainment is courtesy of the steady flow of Horseshoe Bay reg- ulars, Bowen Islanders, Vancouver Islanders, drifters and wharf rats that are drawn to the smell of sea breezes and harbor traffic.

For a half-day vacation, consider Horseshoe Bay resort.

And while you’re there consider Ya Ya’s Oyster Bar for a half-dozen oysters and some good seaside dining.

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