22 ~- Wednesday, January 23, 1991 - North Shore News

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Beach Club lacks spirit but has potential

The North Shore Beach Club, 1301 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver. 983-2582. Visa and Mastercard accepted. Open

Monday to Saturday. Wheelchair Accessible.

T HE NORTH Shore

Beach Club is in dire need of an intensive mernbership drive.

Maybe it’s the weather and maybe it’s the location, well above the high-tide mark, that is keeping evening club attendance to a sparse few. But whatever it is the Beach Club brains trust has got to find a solution before another res- taurant motif withers on the 13th and Lonsdale vine.

Previous occupants of the loca- tion have tried serving everything from French to Persian food to at- tract a regular dining clientele, but none have been successful for more than a few months.

The Beach Club started off on an enthusiastic note. Instead of mere- ly affixing a new awning to the front of the building, the club’s ownership hired the legendary Mad Antist to outfit the restaurant with a new coat of paint anda totally new external personality. Something wild. Something zany. Something beach-like. Something mad.

And that he has done.

The restaurant’s exterior is doll-

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Goodman BEACH BEAUX and Belles...Sandy (left) and Robert Denton, owners of the Beach Club restaurant, offer a plate of Grilled Salmon with roasted red pepper coulis for all prospective club members. The new North Vancouver restaurant specializes in light North American continenta! cuisine.

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ed up like a Robert Wyland whal- ing mural featuring blonde bomb- shells in place of whales.

The theme carries on inside with one entire wall of the Beach Club occupied by a single reclining bikini-clad bathing beauty.

Elsewhere is a splattering of blue and white colors in tie-dye motif. The art is reminiscent of those murals painted on the sides of ex- travagantly decorated American vans driven by the Dayton-boot-

table hopping

and-ZZ-Top set. But unfortunately, the decor was

more exciting than the atmosphere on a recent Table Hopping visit to the Beach Club.

Few Beach Boys and even fewer Beach Bunnies were to be found.

But that’s not to say that the res- taurant shouldn't be given a try. Because it is trying, Lord knows it is trying, to inject a little excite- ment into the moribund evening heart of mid-Lonsdale.

The restaurant featured live

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