PAGE 8, WHITBY FREE PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 11, 1988 ~Tà YihI . busW1iess La Petite:, F amily -run restaurant off ers French cuisine Bv DERBIE LUCHUK La Petite fils that "something missing" in dining in Whitby. A small, rather unobtrusive building located on Dundas St. W. hides one of Wihitby's best kept secrets --a family-run restaurant offering French- continental cuisine and, surpxisingly, an informai environment. Owner and chef John Seferlis has had 25 years of experience in preparing French and continental cuisine at the Westbury Hotel in Toronto, Maxim's de Paris in Chicago, and a previous family-run restaurant. La- Petite is a "semi-retirement" venture for Seferlis and bis family helps te run the operation. If there is a problemn with the food or the atmosphere, the owner says he gets comments from his fanuily directly, unlike the large franchises where complaints run through a series of 'bureaucratic" channels with usually- no significant resuits. Tena 's Diner: By DERBIE LUCRUK Tena's Diner, located on Brock St. N. just north of the four corners, offers a 'down east," homey atmosphere with home cooking. "When there are several tables full of Newfoundlanders here, you cari have a really good time," says owner Tena Byvelds. Diners enijoying the home cooking are often drawn into the general conversation. Byvelds has been in the food The menu features several dishes prepared at the diner' table such as oysters Rockefeller, cherryjubilee, crepes suzette and steak Diane, and a large and varied assortmènt of seafood dishes and other dishes. "Anything can be mnade as long as you phone ahead," Sefferlis says, adding that with* advance notice, ho cari prepare dishes not on the menu. A cbild's menu is also available, priced from $5.95 te $6.95 per dinner; and there are several specials offered at any given time. "Why drive to Toronto (for French continental cooking) when you cari drive te a neighborhood place where you don't have to dress up formally?' Seferlis notes. 'We're looking for people who love good food, not stuffiness." La Petite is open seven days a week: Monday te Friday, il a.m. te 2:30 p.m. and 5 to il p.m; on Saturdays and Sundays, 4:30 to il p.m. Home cooking in. homey atmosphere business for a number of years, and has worked as a supervisor at Versa Foods Ltd., and operated her, own catering business on the side. From Newfoundand herself, she wanted te establish a diner with the good home cooking from the Atlantic provinces and that special atmosphere of fiendliness that seems a part of most establishments in the east. SEE PAGE il Ja pan Camera locates here Japan Camera 1 Hour Photo, a national chain of one-hour photefinishers, bas opened a location at the Kendalwood Park Plaza in Whitby. Owner-president of the Whitby location is Jim }-ayashi, who has worked for Japan Camera for 27 years. Assisting is wife Virginia. Hayashi was one of Japan Camera's flrst retail salespeople when the company began more tban 25 years ago. He eventually became national sales manager- and then marketing manager. Japan Camera was the flrst in North America to use new photofinishing equipment wbich handles 110, 126 and 35 mm process color print film. Photoflnishing is completed in one hour, reprints in 20 minutes and passport photos in five minutes. Also in the. Whitby location is a range of photographic equipment and accessories. JUDY GIBRENS, tourism elerk for the Region, hands out literature promoting Town of Whitby and a board member of Whitby at Marketplace '88 at the the Tourist Association of Durham Oshawa Centre on the weekend. Free Press photo New lingerie shop in Lanes BDEBIE LUCHUK "Women of ail ages want to feel pretty underneath it aIl,", says Audrey Jane McIntyre, owner of a new lingerie shop in Whitby. Audrey Jane Lingerie opened "officially" on May 1, and was the culmination of Mclntyre's 33 years experience in cosmnetics and making women beautiful. Located in Pearson Lanes on CUSTOM Mary St. W. in Whitby, the shop offers bathing suits, lounge outfits, teddies, camisoles, bras, matching panties and tap pants, slips and other undergarments, in a wide range of colors and sizes. Audrey Jane~s offers the Lily Ann, Linda, Ginzia and Natori lines of lingerie. In addition- to lingerie, Mclntyre camres a selection of French perf'umes that she says are not widely seen or known about around here. McIntyre felt there was a need for a special type of lingerie shop in the Whitby area , offering personalized service. As well as expert sales assistance, gift wrapping adds a further personalized touch. 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