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Press, 12 July 1979, Page 13

[ Isn’t it great to go to a restaurant where warmth and friendliness meet you at the door? Oak panelling, deep red carpets, comfortable chairs, superb food, caring concerned staff. All that is yours when you dine at THE SHAKESPEARE. Their food really is rather special ... if you are going this week (and you can, Mondays through to Saturdays), do try the Calamari Coronation (yes, it is squid , . . cooked beautifully). Or another favourite. Midsummer Night’s Dream—pork fillet cooked oh so gently in a cheesy batter, spicy sauce. Or. perhaps—but no—you choose. The selection is magnificent Bv the way, a little bird told me that THE SHAKESPEARE mav be open for lunch soon. Here's hoping SHAKESPEARE GARDEN RESTAURANT. 184 Papanui Road. Phone 559-571. [neutral plusjl This shop brings out the worst in me. 1 want to go home and smash everything, just so I can start over again. With, for instance, some of the lovely glassware in stock this week. Glass cheese boards (plates?), oil and vinegar bottles, glass pillars for sale and pepper. Plain, pure, simple—Cascade glass from England. Love the Italian rock crystal too—heavy bottomed glasses, simple bowls and dishes, and teeny little violet vases. If you are looking for a bargain — NEUTRAL PLUS have a range of Japanese oven-to-table plain white bowls. A very useful shape and size, and a very low price. Also from Japan—the almost classic white paper shade. All sizes—from 12 inch to the very large 24 inch. NEUTRAL PLUS, Hardy Baird Court. ( Lounge jl Remember when you used to park your car opposite the hardware shop? Surprise, surprise, a very swish new coffee lounge has sprung up, and elegant cane chairs and tables have replaced the brick wall and cracked concrete, Merrilyn and Neville Walker announce—VEVEY. Excellent coffee (or tea), sandwiches, savouries, and The House Speciality—cream cakes—are now available. Interrupt your trundles With the shopping cart and stop for coffee. Or meet a friend. Or treat yourself. You reach this new and light and airy coffee lounge via the supermarket, or come straight into the Mall from Papanui Road. You will be warmly welcomed—and you are going to love those cream cakes. VEVEY, Shop 13, Merivale Mall. Papanui Road. ( OlivlaS ) The dress. The pure silk dress. That implies rather than states. That slips over the body. That is as soft as skin. That is the ultimate. OLIVIA is bored with clumpy tweeds and heavy woollens. She has escaped into the pure silk dress . . . and once you see them, so will you. Colours as pale as sand, soft pink, golden beige, cameo cream, porcelain green to enhance the softness of the fabric. There are five different styles in these silk dresses s . . and they all seem to flatter the figure . . . whatever the figure. A person could get married in a dress like this. Or be mother-of-the-bride in a dress like this. Or meet a member-of-the-Royal-Family in a dress like this. Or just simply feel beautiful in a dress like this. OLIVIA’S, 186 Papanui Road. Telephone 554-749. /’ % BUTCHERY* You know that problem of how much meat feeds how many people? ASHBY’S BUTCHERY will tell you, if you ask them. They aren’t too bad with the cooking hints either. If you are a leetle impecunious this week, pork prices, pork patties and Swiss Roll (meat loaf) will stretch out the budget. And if you are not—pork fillets perhaps? Or schnitzels for Escalope de Veau? Go on. They will tell you how to cook them it you’re not sure. And while you are into cordon bleu, ASHBY’S BUTCHERY have fresh chicken livers, and fresh brains. But my big rave of the week has to be their bacon. They cure it themselves! The old-fashioned way. And it tastes just like bacon used to taste. ASHBY’S BUTCHERY, 196 A Papanui Road. Telephone 557-674. |[ BOOKSHOP LTD J This bookshop is on the move. But they have settled for the time being in a new shop (next to Vevey). It is only a temporary resting place, as they will eventually move into the larger Mall. But for now, here they are with all the books, all the magazines, all the stationery, all the smiles they had before. A terrific selection of magazines. Belle, Pol, Vogue, Country Life, Burda ... all the latest glossies to keep you up with the rest of the world. Their range of children’s books is very good. Lots of Asterix paperbacks, and a full range of the Usbourne Series for Curious Young Minds (these are good). And of course, their speciality. Stationery. School stationery. Home stationery. And everything possible in commercial stationery. MERIVALE BOOKSHOP, LTD. Telephone 558-165. There are jeans and jeans and then there are Jag jeans. SIMON AND SARAH have the very popular Jag Jeans in again. They also have the Jag dungarees (with the trendy braces), and the smashing little Jag shirt dresses in fine cord. Pants are for sizes 2-12, and dresses for 4-8 year olds. To wear with Jag, some very neat (pardon the vernacular) tops. All colours, all sizes, by Tree, Taffi, Smart Kid. Lots of little things in this week too. Like sweet little bibs in tiny granny prints, braces (Jag, natch), pinnies in denim with big front pocket, cord souwesters lined with florals, and masses of madly French berets and caps. SIMON AND SARAH, 203 Papanui Road. Telephone 557-511. Khubla Khan would probably have decorated Xanadu with the lengths of hand painted or dyed silk from FANNY BUSS. They flow, they flicker, they gleam And you really can buy just the length. FANNY BUSS is using new silks—like crepe de chine. This is utterly soft, utterly gorgeous, and is made up into some electrifying clothes. Like a sexy little tube dress in Roman purple? Honan silk is another new fabric. Similar to tussore, slightly heavier, slightlv more texture. There is a kimino in Honan silk, dyed a pale azure, painted with shadowy jonquils. Or a palest grey painted tunic swirling over grey silk straight legged pants. And more, much more. FANNY BUSS, Leinster House, 158 Leinster Rd. Ph. 555-318. FOR INFORMATION ABOUT THIS COLUMN,