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Hot Dining: 4 Rooms for a Cool Yule

On a chilly evening, ask for a seat close to the fireplace in Bacchus. Photo by KK Law

These local hotels pull out all the stops to celebrate the season.
1 The Wedgewood Hotel features one of the city’s most festive lounges, Bacchus (pictured), which sports a blazing hearth and modern French, West Coast–influenced cuisine such as AAA tenderloin of Alberta beef or herb-crusted filet of Queen Charlotte halibut.
2 Fairmont Hotel Vancouver gets all decked out with a dazzling lighted roof, tree-trimmed lobby, hot toddies and a Kris Kringle Christmas Day Buffet in Griffins.
3 Four Seasons Vancouver features a holiday brunch in dazzling Yew, and every year bakes a highly coveted stöllen.
4 In the Sutton Place Hotel, Fleuri highlights the holidays with deluxe buffets both savoury and saccharine, including the much-celebrated Chocoholic bar every Thursday, Friday and Saturday to satisfy even the sweetest tooth.—Tim Pawsey

Hot Entertainment: Snapshots of History

Glimpse into Vancouver's past with this coffee-table tome

In 1939, the Marine Building and the Hotel Vancouver protruded above the Vancouver skyline. Nowadays, the city is chock-a-block with highrises. Discover these differences—and many more—in the fascinating paired photos in Francis Mansbridge’s Vancouver Then and Now (Thunder Bay Press, $22.95), at local bookstores.—Sheri Radford