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Meet the Chef of Your Dreams

Friday, January 19, 2007

Here's the deal: from now until Sunday, February 4, you can eat at 156 of Vancouver's most mouth-watering restaurants at crazy cheap prices.

It's part of Dine Out Vancouver, an annual matchmaking event that will help you find the chef you're most compatible with. For $15, $25 or $35, you can order a three-course prix fixe meal designed to give you a sample of that restaurant's best concoctions. And this goes on for 17 nights! That's a lot of food to taste. But we're definitely not complaining. No, we're sitting here salivating, booking our reservations online - which you can do for about 50 of the restaurants at www.tourismvancouver.com - and waiting for dinnertime so we can go eat, eat, eat!

We're also pretty sure we're going to grab one of the great package deals available from a few of the hotels around town. Starting at $129, you get a meal for two and then a room for two that night. Swanky!

For more info and a complete list of the participating restaurants, head to: www.tourismvancouver.com/visitors/dining/dineout.php

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