Written By Guest Writer Events / Places / Restaurants Feb 16, 2016 Dine Around Victoria Kicks Off with a Menu Launch on Feb 18 SHARE VIA: Facebook Twitter PinterestThe Greater Victoria Visitors & Convention Bureau (Tourism Victoria) and the BC Restaurant & Foodservices Association (BCRFA), Victoria Branch, are once again teaming up to organize the 13th Annual Dine Around & Stay in Town Victoria event from February 19 to March 6, 2016.Each year participating restaurants in Dine Around offer a three-course menu, with a minimum of two options per course, at a cost of either $20, $30, $40 or $50 per person, and participating accommodations offer room rates from $79, $99 or $129 per night. Both locals and visitors alike will delight in the wide range of culinary experiences and host of world-class accommodations to be had in the Greater Victoria area. This is an opportunity to visit old favourites or discover new ones.Be the first to sample some of the restaurants’ bites at the Menu Launch on Thursday, February 18 at the Victoria Conference Centre. More than 15 restaurants prepare bite-sized samples to showcase their Dine Around menus and serve liquid libations from many of B.C.’s finest craft breweries and 17 VQA wineries. Tickets for this event are $45 for the general public and available online, at Tourism Victoria’s Visitor Centre and Spinnakers Spirit Merchant stores.When: 5 p.m., Feb 18Where: Victoria Conference CentrePictured Above: Top Row (L to R): Ryan Harney (AURA Restaurant), Desiree Perrin (Church & State), Takumi Kitamura (The Pacific Restaurant), Travis Hansen (The Butchart Gardens)Bottom Row (L to R): Peter Debruyn (The Strathcona), Nathan Tymchuk and Steve Baert (Steamship Bar & Grill), Josh Poole (Pendray Restaurant)Photo credit: Leanna Rathkelly Photography SHARE VIA: Facebook Twitter Pinterest Written By: Guest Writer We get many people writing guest articles for us, as well as past contributors. This is the Guest ... Read More You may also like Awards / Drink People / Events / Wine Events / Wine News October 15, 2020 SOMM SMACKDOWN—Rumble at Aura Waterfront Restaurant Strange, interesting, and wonderful things can happen in odd times, and there is no stranger time than now, but something needed to be done to pay ... Read More Events / Food & Wine Pairing / Food Events / Places / Victoria February 25, 2020 Pacific Northwest Wine Dinner: Canoe Brewpub & Unsworth Vineyards Multi-award winning Unsworth Vineyards and Canoe’s Chef Kyle Dampsy joined forces on Wednesday, February 19, in Canoe’s upstairs Dining ... Read More Events October 30, 2019 Eat the Future Victoria’s food community came together this week at Boom + Batten restaurant for Eat the Future, a tasty event to raise money for future chefs ... Read More Causes / Chefs / Events / Victoria August 30, 2019 Mary Ploegsma—The Tattoo Series I It was an unforgettable afternoon. Mary Ploegsma served us David’s Tea’s vanilla chai with sweet local strawberries and chocolate biscuits. The ... Read More Causes / Chefs / Events / Food Heroes / Sustainability August 30, 2019 An Evening with Chef Ned Bell and Ocean Wise On August 20, 2019, Ocean Wise and Eagle Wing Whale and Wildlife Watching Tours teamed up to present the first in a series of speaker events in ... Read More Beer & Cider / Beer Dinners / Events / Food Events / Wineries & Breweries August 30, 2019 A Categorically Great Meal Saanich Brewery Category 12’s ‘Brewmaster’s Dinner’ Marries Wildcraft With Craft-Beer It was somewhere at the beginning of the ... Read More Comments are closed.
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