Visitors to Vancouver in the first few weeks of 2026 can take advantage of cut-price meals at many of the city’s most popular restaurants and other food outlets.
Dine Out Vancouver, Canada’s largest food and drink celebration, returns from January 21 and February 8, offering curated fixed-price menus at more than 400 establishments.
The offers are available across the city’s 22 distinct neighbourhoods, including Downtown, Gastown, Yaletown, Chinatown, Granville Island and South Granville, Kitsilano and Coal Harbour.
The event also sees food trucks gather outside the Vancouver Art Gallery, which offer everything from tacos to buns.
Running alongside Dine Out Vancouver are culinary events that span everything from sea foraging to dumpling fests to a walk around Chinatown with a dim sum tasting. And on February 5 Chowder Cup will see eight chefs battle it out in an all-out seafood chowder “brawl”.
A spokesperson for Destination Vancouver said the festival offers an affordable opportunity to explore the city’s vibrant culinary scene, adding: “Dine Out Vancouver continues to highlight our incredible culinary talent and the diverse food and cultural experiences that make Vancouver unique.
“Vancouver’s multicultural influences along with immediate access to fresh ingredients from our nearby oceans, rivers, valleys and fields, lend to our stature as one of the world’s greatest food hubs.”
The event started with an idea: in 2022 a group of food and wine enthusiasts got together with Destination Vancouver and pitched the idea of a fixed-price menu deal to get Vancouverites out and into restaurants during a normally slow time of the year.
Fifty-seven restaurants jumped on board and from that humble beginning Dine Out Vancouver has grown into Canada’s largest food and drink festival – and a major draw card for international visitors.
Today, it is a promotional umbrella that brings together hundreds of chefs, almost 400 restaurants, wineries, craft breweries, suppliers and more for a three-week season of dining, food-forward events and experiences designed to give culinary enthusiasts the opportunity to taste the best flavours of the city. Dine Out Vancouver Festival also includes special hotel offers.
Menus and prices typically debut closer to festival dates in early January, but last year prices ranged from around C$30pp up to about C$65pp for a three-course lunch or dinner menu, with many venues charging the same for both.
In previous years A limited number of higher-end experiences, including some Michelin-awarded restaurants, have offered ‘premium menus” starting at around C$100.
