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Pacific Sole “Bellevue” . $9.95 Grilled Liver w/Glazed Onions $9.95 Savoury Roast Lamb $9.95

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Roast Prime Rib Thursday, Friday ard Saturday evenings

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Dinner - Ariston Greek Style Spare Ribs $12.95 Double Chicken Breast Oreganato 89.95

Lunch Chicken or Lamb Gyros $6.95

Dolkmathes

Choice of meat or vegetarian $6.95

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ATTENTION fellow 99ers, the 20th centu- ry is fast heading into the dustbin of history, Before it’s gone there’s still a whole lot of digesting to do. That includes the dining trade.

Below tind a rw selection of local dining n-ws items to chew upon.

The regular Table Hopping four-course review will rerurn in the next episode

Village Bistro, 3135 Edgemont Bivd., North Vancouver, 980-5535.

Managerial changes have again taken place at this once- booming restaurant.

When the original Village Bistro Boys rolled out of this Edgemont Village gem last year and headed for the more lucrative hills of West Vancouver, their compact high energy diner could have fallen into far less capable hands.

Tt could have been hijacked by misguided quick buck artists and turned into a slipshod short-order house of pancakes or worse.

Instead it fell last May into the warm and congenial hands of Alberto and Maria

Sabatucci.

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A tale of two N. shore bistros

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CACTUS Club bossmen Scott Morison (left) and Richard Jaffray recently opened their newest Cactus Club on West Broadway in Vancouver.

While the Bistro Boys fan club scam ered west in hot ursuit of Joc Verri, Shawn erger and their new restau- rant, the Sabatuccis set about shoring up the bistro they vacated. Tt was a tough act to fol- low.

They inherited a good name and a good location.

But they added to it that special passion for food and

mily that elevates good Italian restaurants above most others.

Alas, however, the Sabatuccis left the Village Bistro last weekend, bound for a restaurant of their own in the Vancouver area, which is something they haven’t had

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since they !eft their long-lived Valentino’s in Vancouver's Dunbar area .

Immediately before taking on the Village Bistro they ran a business that manufactured hand-made pasta.

The Village Bistro had been one of the Sabatuccis’ pasta customers prior to their taking over its management.

And they brought that pasta expertise with them to the Village. For example, their tortelloni — special jumbo tortellini hand-stuffed with a peppery ground chick- en and served in a rich toma- to cream sauce topped with fresh basil leaves — was first class.

No word yet on who will

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Golden Fried Prawns Served with potato

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As for the Bistro Boys and their Ambleside Bistro (Ambleside Ristro, 235 15th St. West Vancouver, 922- 7678; fax: 922-7898): the joine is jumpin’, a3 it has been from the outset. _

On a recent Friday night, the unflappable Joc Pern presided over wave after wave of Bistro clientele. “Table for

402” “Right this way.” No such buzz at previous restau- rant tenants in the second- storey Bellevue and 15th

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