Date nights are made easy with both Dine Out Vancouver Festival (January 22-February 9) and PuSh International Performing Arts Festival (January 23-February 9) beginning this week, offering a bounty of prix fixe menus and international performing arts throughout the city.
Here’s few PuSh performances with nearby Dine Out locations that make pairing a meal and show easy;
Provence Marinaside X The History of Korean Western Theatre
Start a date night with waterfront views and elevated Mediterranean dining from the 3-course $49 Lunch or Dinner menu with add-on pairings from the stellar wine cellar at Provence Marinaside, 1177 Marinaside Crescent
Just steps away, Jaha Koo returns for the third in his Hamartia Trilogy, following the works Lolling and Rolling, and Cuckoo with The History of Korean Western Theatre, which examines how the suppression of local culture under Western assimilation has shaped Korean theatre on January 23 & 24 at Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre, 181 Roundhouse Mews
The French Table Bistro X L’addition
3-course $49 Lunch, Dinner and Take Out menus offer plenty of opportunity to sample the wares of The French Table Bistro, 3916 Main Street
Set in a café, two men, a waiter and a customer, seem perfectly normal, until the customer orders a drink. The waiter pours and what follows is an unpredictable descent into chaos from the comedic duo of Tim Etchells/Bert & Nasi (UK/France) January 25 & 26 at Alliance Française Vancouver, 6161 Cambie Street
Aquafarina X BOGOTÁ
The downtown Italian restaurant offers a $65 3-course lunch or dinner menu, with reservations accepted for dinner at Aquafarina, 425 West Georgia Street
A block away, running January 31 & February 1, PuSh Festival and New Works Dance present BOGOTÁ, with nine-dancers performing a work inspired by Colombia’s political and spiritual heritage, at Vancouver Playhouse, 600 Hamilton Street
Alimentaria Mexicana X Transpofagic Manifesto
Granville Island’s Alimentaria delivers a great selection of its Mexican/Latin American menu for a $39 lunch or dinner at Alimentaria Mexicana, 1596 Johnston Street.
Brazillian human rights activist, Renata Carvalho’s Transpofagic Manifesto is a courageous and thought-provoking work that challenges commonly-held views around gender diversity presented with Latincouver, February 7 & 8 at Waterfront Theatre, 1412 Cartwright Street
1931 Gallery Bistro X Inner Sublimity
While the weather might not suit dining one of the best patios in the city, dine within the Vancouver Art Gallery for 1931 Gallery Bistro’s $55 dinner menu offers a selection of it’s globally inspired West Coast fusion menu
You couldn’t be closer to witnessing a performance of Inner Sublimity, which explores Eastern and Western philosophy through dance in a dynamic dialogue between traditions preserved across generations creatively adapted the spaces within the Vancouver Art Gallery, 750 Hornby Street wrapping up the Festival February 7, 8 & 9
Choose some of these, or mix and match any of the outstanding Dine Out Vancouver Festival menus with world-class performing arts on stage during PuSh International Performing Arts Festival to warm up the winter nights!