Experience a feast for the senses as both Dine Out Vancouver Festival (January 21-February 8) and PuSh International Performing Arts Festival (January 22-February 8) begin this week, bringing the city world-class performing arts and a bounty of prix fixe menus.
To take advantage of both festivals to make your date nights special, here’s few PuSh Festival performances with nearby Dine Out locations that make pairing a meal and show easy;
Provence Marinaside X Le Beau Monde X Opus Hotel Vancouver
Overlooking the waters of False Creek, Provence Marinaside’s elevated Mediterranean dining offers a three-course $49 Lunch or Dinner menu with add-on wine pairings available with a regular pour for $36 for three wines or petit pour at $26 for three wines at Provence Marinaside, 1177 Marinaside Crescent
Around the corner, for three performances January 24 & 25, French company, L’École Parallèle Imaginaire present Le Beau Monde – a sci-fi theatre of tenderness and absurdity, built from the debris of our daily lives. The collective creation by actor Rémi Fortin, with polyphonic songs by Arthur Amard, resurrects our present as if it were already a ghost rising at Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre, 181 Roundhouse Mews
Just up the street, make a whole night of it with an overnight stay at Opus Hotel Vancouver, 322 Davie Street offering a Dine Out special promotion of a $250 Prepaid Mastercard with a 2-night stay or a $75 Prepaid Mastercard with a 1-night stay
Nuba – Gastown X Remember that time we met in the future?
Nuba at 207 West Hastings Street, offers a four-course $42 Dinner of sumptuous selections from its Afghan/Middle Eastern menus with gluten-Free and vegetarian options available.
Presented in association with Matriarchs Rising, Remember that time we met in the future? byLara Kramer (Turtle Island/Canada) moves through a world in transformation—where land, light, sound, and memory converge. January 25 & 26 at Alliance Française Vancouver, 6161 Cambie Street
Wildlight Kitchen + Bar X Split Tooth: Saputjiji
Make your way to UBC for MICHELIN-recommended Wildlight Kitchen + Bar, a celebration of West Coast culture and cuisine, with MICHELIN Young Chef award-winner Chef Warren Chow serving ethically sourced, seasonal ingredients for its $70 three-course dinner menu, at 107 – 5380 University Blvd
Make your way across campus to Chan Centre for Performing Arts at UBC, 6265 Crescent Rd, for a one-night only presentation of Split Tooth: Saputjiji a new performance of Tanya Tagaq’s, drawing from her acclaimed book Split Tooth and her new album Saputjiji, co-presented with Music on Main on February 8.
Pepino’s Spaghetti House X Everything Has Disappeared
At 631 Commercial Drive the celebrated “House that Spaghetti Built,” Pepino’s offers a $55 three-course dinner menu, paying homage to both Italian immigrant communities and the cuisines that developed around the East Van neighbourhood
Right next door, at The Cultch York Theatre the UNIT Productions & Mammalian Diving Reflex, in collaboration with The Chop Canada production of Everything Has Disappeared exposes the hidden architecture of the global economy: a system sustained by the labour, care, and migration of Filipino workers through digital interactive technology (and a touch of magic) Co-presented by LIVE! Biennale, playing January 29 – February 1 at York Theatre, 639 Commercial Drive,
Aquafarina X Orpheus
The MICHELIN-recommended downtown Italian hotspot offers a $70 three-course lunch or dinner menu, with reservations accepted for dinner at Aquafarina, 425 West Georgia Street
A block away, at Vancouver Playhouse, Orpheus, by Choreographer Alan Lake, reimagines the myth of descent as a visceral dance through darkness toward connection and renewal. Running January 30-31 on-stage at Vancouver Playhouse, 600 Hamilton Street, and until February 8, online.
Alimentaria Mexicana X TESTO X Granville Island Hotel
Granville Island’s Alimentaria Mexicana delivers a great selection of its comfortable, casual but so tasty Mexican/Latin American menu for a $39 four-course dinner at Alimentaria Mexicana, 1596 Johnston Street.
Co-presented with Here+Now Peformance Created in England and the frank theatre co, TESTO from Wet Mess (UK) celebrates transitions, testosterone and the edges of drag–a chaotic, heartfelt, and hilariously unhinged deep dive into the mess of becoming at Performance Works, 1218 Cartwright Stree, February 7 & 8.
Make it an island weekend with a stay at Granville Island Hotel, 1253 Johnson Street, offering a Dine Out special promotion of a $250 Prepaid Mastercard with a 2-night stay or a $75 Prepaid Mastercard with a 1-night stay
Let these choices guide your selection or browse the outstanding Dine Out Vancouver Festival menus with world-class performing arts on stage during PuSh International Performing Arts Festival to curate your own warm winter pairings of Arts & Cuisine.