Dine Out Vancouver is a winter food festival run by Destination Vancouver, the city's tourism agency. For about three weeks from mid or late January into February, restaurants across Metro Vancouver serve curated multi-course menus at fixed prices, and the festival adds ticketed culinary events, hotel offers and attraction discounts for visitors.
Menus are sold in a few fixed price tiers that the festival sets each season. Recent editions ran from about $20 to $70 per person, plus a small number of higher-priced tasting menus at top restaurants. The menu price covers the food, and drinks, tax and tip are added to the bill.
The festival reveals every participating restaurant and menu about a week before it starts, and reservations open the same day through the festival website. Any restaurant in Metro Vancouver can register, so menus are listed in Vancouver and in suburbs such as Burnaby, Richmond, Surrey and Coquitlam. Destination Vancouver advises booking early because popular tables fill quickly, and festival events are ticketed separately.