It was the 2009 Dine Out Vancouver Media Preview two nights back. Every year we in the food media are invited on a “dine around” courtesy of Tourism Vancouver in advance of the real deal. We all met and started off at Yew in the Four Seasons where there was plenty of wine and lots of “How were your holidays?”. After a couple speeches from the TVan bigs, we split into teams of five to cruise around the city in our own souped up pimpmobiles. You should have seen these things. Word.

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My team was whisked to The New Bohemian for three courses, and then Cru for another three. It was a lot of suspenseful fun, as it is every year (they don’t tell you where you’re going), and we ended up back at Yew for more icewine and dessert at the end of the night. Good times.

Good luck during Dine Out everyone. I wish you all full rooms and 20%.

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Andrew Morrison is a west coast boy who studied history and classics at the Universities of Cape Town and Toronto after an adolescence spent riding skateboards and working in restaurants. He is the editor of Scout Magazine, the weekly food and restaurant columnist for the Westender newspaper, and a contributor to Vancouver and Western Living magazines.

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