Returning to the Nest!

The Grouse Nest, top of

Grouse Mountain, 6400 Nancy Greene Way, North Vancouver. 986-6378. Visa, MasterCard and American Express accepted. Open every night for dinner. Open for Sunday brunch. Take the kids or call a babysitter? Call a babysitter.

Timothy Renshaw TABLE HOPPING

HEN LOCALS

want to dine on

the panoramic glory of the North Shore and the rest of the Lower Mainland, they head for the hills.

Preferably for the top of those hills, where the view is 180 degrees; where the eagles soar, where the Grouse Nest resides and the deer and the antelope

jay. p For sheer topographical eleva- tion, the Nest is king of the North Shore hill; for culinary elevation, however, the Nest’s tood quality has hit as many valleys as peaks.

The challenge for the Nest’s kitchen has always been to com- pete with the restaurant's mat- chless view.

In the past, that view could always offset any kitchen medioc- rity; but today’s diner is a more demanding beast.

Dining dollars, battered and bloodied by such fiscal kidney punches as the GST, are being more carefully spent.

A big view alone will no ionger satisfy either tourists or hometown folks.

The current Grouse Nest incar- nation, happily, is in culinary as- cent.

Its menu shows flashes of in- spiration rarely found in a tourist

lestination restaurant.

The Nest’s appetizer selection, for example, features such items as Cuttlefish ($5.95) sauteed with saf- fron, herbs and green-lip mussels; Wild Mushrooms tossed in warm balsamic vinaigrette on baby Ir-:- tuces ($5.95); and Rabbit Sade‘se Medallions (36.95) with pie.acnio nuts and cranberry ginger

“chutney.

The Nest’s summer menu adds to the regular selection such items as Baked Chevre Cheese wrapped in proscuitto and radicchio on a

yellow pepper puree ($5.95) and Smoked Buffalo with kumquats and baby lettuces ($6.95).

A dozen main Grouse Nest courses ($15.95 to $22.50) range from Pacific Halibut Fillet ($16.95) through Local Pheasant with sherry shallot jus ($19.95) and on

A NICE NEST...Grouse Nest head chef Jay Lynn presents an

NEWS photo Mike field

evening's entree from the Grouse Mountain restaurant.

to Veal Loin Medallions ($21.50) with pinot noir and dried cherries.

The entree prices match the res- taurant’s elevation, in part to offset the cost of your Skyride trip to the Grouse Nest, which is regularly $13.95 for an adult fare, almost double the Skyride fare charged in Table Hopping’s 1986 trip to the Nest.

Of course, Nest patrons are given complimentary Skyride tick- ets.

The Skyride, on a clear night, remains as entrancing as ever. Like the Grouse Nest itself, the Skyride lays the grandeur of the Lower Mainland at your feet for con- templation of the good fortune

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