Dine Around Freddy
Dine Around Freddy is a FROSTival Favourite
Dine Around Freddy is a FROSTival favourite and it is coming to Fredericton Capital Region from January 18 to February 4, 2024! Chefs at over 30 participating restaurants have curated special 3-course dining menus at a set discount price of $42 per person. It is a wonderful time to get out and try some new-to-you restaurants or revisit your favourites to see what’s new on their Dine Around Freddy menus. This is a limited time special event at local restaurants. Make your reservations and get ready to indulge in some delicious food.
Wolastoq Wharf
Wolastoq Wharf was my first Dine Around Freddy stop. This restaurant is best known for their incredible seafood - and it is their seafood that I crave. So I was very excited to see their famous Seafood Fettuccine as one of their entrée options on their Dine Around Freddy menu. My good friend Laurie and I both selected it that night and the portion size was so large, that we actually needed takeaway boxes. Talk about value!
Dine Around Freddy Gives You Choices
Everything was scrumptious during our Dine Around Freddy dinner at Wolastoq Wharf, from the delicious pear & brie soup, served with their signature freshly baked Bannock (with a side of butter & molasses), to our Seafood Fettuccine, followed by the decadent Chocolate Baileys Crème Brûlée’ dessert. Laurie and I were both drawn to this lineup, but there were other options, too, including a Spinach Salad with Bacon Dressing as a starter, Jambalaya for another entrée option, and a New York Style Cheesecake for dessert, which all sounded wonderfully delicious, too. Just maybe, I need to return with my hubby to enjoy those offerings, too. Three weeks of Dine Around Freddy gives you choices and lots of time to return to your favourite restaurant more than once, or visit several different restaurants. Each year, the local chefs change their Dine Around Freddy menus, too. That’s what makes this event so fun. The menus change every year, but what stays the same is knowing you will experience unique, mouth-watering meals prepared at your favourite local restaurants.
Dine Around Freddy Value Meals
Dine Around Freddy is truly the perfect time to check out new-to-you restaurants. Take this opportunity to check out several. It is possible to do it all with these Dine Around Freddy special menu value-priced offerings. You get more for less and there are over 30 participating restaurants. Date Night, Girls Night, I Don’t Want to Cook Night - there are plenty of reasons to get out and enjoy more of these fabulous chef-curated discounted meals. Cure your Winter Blues with a little Dine Around Freddy in your life.
MoCo Downtown
MoCo Downtown was my second Dine Around Freddy restaurant experience. Dining here is like a trip to Italy, but it is conveniently located in the heart of downtown Fredericton. This cozy restaurant specializes in savoury, flavourful dishes and if it is Italian that you are in the mood for, this is the place for you. When you enter MoCo Downtown, you sense you are in for a special experience, and you are! Beware, the aromas from the kitchen have you salivating before you even sit down to read the menu.
Moco Downtown is a Trip to Italy
My good friend Lucie and I selected different starters - she had the Tortellini en Brodo - which is a traditional first course for Christmas feasts in northern Italy. It is a meat stuffed pasta served in a rich chicken broth. I enjoyed the Passatelli en Brodo. Typically, it is found in Pesaro e Urbino and other regions of northern Italy, such as Emilia Romagna and Umbria. So when I say eating at MoCo Downtown is like a trip to Italy, I really mean it! This dish has parmesan bread dumplings served in a rich roasted winter vegetable broth. We both chose the Italian Beef Braciole as our entrées, for its thinly sliced beef, stuffed with prosciutto, breadcrumbs and herbs, all slowly simmered in Nonna C’’s tomato sauce until fork tender and served with parmesan mashed potatoes (yum) and winter vegetables. It was all done - just right. Talk about comfort food! There were other entrée options as well including a Pumpkin Ravioli (great for vegetarians), and an Arctic Char dish that had me very tempted, too. For dessert Lucie and I went in different directions again - she had the Espresso Brownie (chocoholics unite), and I enjoyed the White Russian Crème Brûlée.’ We shared bites and both were heavenly.
Dine Around Freddy Restaurants
Wolastoq Wharf and MoCo Downtown are two of over 30 great options for Dine Around Freddy. So get out there! There is no better time to treat yourself to these chef-curated, 3-course value meals. There is something for everyone out there. Remember this is a limited time offer, so don’t wait. Click on the Dine Around Freddy logo below for a full list of all participating restaurants and each one’s chef-curated Dine Around Freddy menu. Then pull out your calendar and make some reservations. Tell them the Maritimes Maven sent you!
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