Best Restaurant Deals During Dine Out Vancouver 2013

Best Restaurant Deals During Dine Out Vancouver 2013
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With 240 particpating Dine Out restaurants, it’s not easy to pick the best menus. But don’t worry about doing your homework. We’ve done it for you


January is the month we all start working on our resolutions. So by all means, stick to those kale-fueled rainy runs. But it may prove hard to be austere with Dine Out Vancouver Festival 2013, Canada’s largest restaurant festival, taking place January 18 - February 3.

What is Dine Out, and why are so many connoisseurs, gluttons and budget-minded diners excited? During Dine Out, Vancouver’s best restaurants offer three-course, prix fixe menus at deep discounts. There are three menu price tiers: $18, $28 or $38.

Here are the 8 best deals during Dine Out Vancouver. Act fast. Reservations are now open.

Best Restaurant Deals During Dine Out Vancouver 2013
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Diva at the Met, $38


Diva at the Met receives rave reviews for molecular-gastronomy-style West Coast cuisine by award-winning chef Hamid Salimian. The prix fixe Dine Out menu features Humboldt squid with Moroccan sausages, and sweet-savoury flourishes such as carmelized stilton cheesecake with rhubarb.

Best Restaurant Deals During Dine Out Vancouver 2013
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Wildebeest, $38


Everyone's buzzing about the newest coolster on the Gastown restaurant scene, Wildebeest, with chef David Gunawan at the helm. Take the basic locally sourced cuisine concept and add a focus on whole-animal cookery. The Dine Out menu is really approachable (no awful offal) with a hearty winter ham hock soup topped with parsely pistou, and homey Angus short ribs with rutabaga mash. 

Best Restaurant Deals During Dine Out Vancouver 2013
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Raincity Grill, $38


West End gem Raincity Grill started the 100-mile concept in Vancouver back in the good old days when "locavore" wasn't an annoying term. The quality of the cusine has stayed top notch outdoing many of the sweet, young restaurants of the moment. On the Dine Out dinner menu, we're loving the North Arm Farms beetroot salad with meringues and the seared scallops with bacon clouds. There's also a lunch menu.

Best Restaurant Deals During Dine Out Vancouver 2013
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L'Abattoir, $38


L'Abattoir, ranked one of Canada's best restaurants, is known for its fine French-influenced West Coast fare, as well as its creative plating. Dine Out menu standouts include steak tartare with slow cooked egg yolk and horseradish cream. We're also keen on the housemade cavatelli with pumpkin and brown butter sage.

Best Restaurant Deals During Dine Out Vancouver 2013
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Forage, $28


Newly opened Forage in the artsy Listel Hotel is making a name for itself by bringing a touch of the Main Street feel to downtown Van. As the name suggests, the chef is meticulous in his quest for the best local inputs. Dine Out menu pick: B.C. spot prawn and seafood chowder with soft-poached egg, smoked chicharrón and pork hock. It won the annual Chowder Chowdown.

Best Restaurant Deals During Dine Out Vancouver 2013
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Cork & Fin, $28


Of all the Vancouver seafood restaurants, fancy pants Cork & Fin in Gastown is offering the best Dine Out menu deal. Expect freshly shucked oysters and delights such as lobster and striped beetroot salad with pine nut brittle. As an added bonus: all three courses are savoury. Dessert is usually overrated.

Best Restaurant Deals During Dine Out 2013
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Best Restaurant Deals During Dine Out Vancouver 2013


Cozier than the well-loved Alibi Room, Bitter has stolen the Vancouver craft beer scene spotlight. In additon to its ususal gamut of clever beer snacks like brats and house made Scotch eggs, Bitter has added a slew of tempting comfort dishes to its Dine Out menu, including house-smoked pork loin with a creamy white bean and parsley stew.

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Wild Rice, $18


Wild Rice, known for modernizing Chinese cuisine and treating vegetarians right, is offering a deeply discounted three-course Dine Out dinner menu with highlights including sauteed local mushrooms with baby bok choy and hoisin macaroni finished with truffle oil.

Comments

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    • Anonymous
    • February 1, 2013 @ 10:35

    Dont go Cincin. It's bad.


    • Anonymous
    • February 1, 2013 @ 7:36

    I was very suprized and impressed with the American grille at the Marriott Vancouver Airport in Richmond. Everything on the Dine out Menu was not on there regular Menu and was bery creative and inspired. The Maui style short ribs were fantastic, as were both the beet salad and the Prawn appetizers. Really a good experience. $28 bucks but worth it! Sticky toffee pudding for dessert - Yumm!


    • Anonymous
    • January 14, 2013 @ 5:06

    Cork and Fin was a total disappointment last year - would not return.


    • Anonymous
    • January 14, 2013 @ 2:56

    My choice is The Tea House in Stanley Park's lunch deal for $18! Yummy!


    • Anonymous
    • January 12, 2013 @ 1:21

    looks good, if you live in vancouver, what about the rest of us?


    • Anonymous
    • January 11, 2013 @ 12:48

    I just compared the set Keg menu to their regular menu and it came out the same price. I don't see where the deep discount comes in and I would consider that false advertising.


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