Ten years makes for one great restaurant festival! Eat your way through 17 days of culinary events, choose from hundreds of sensational restaurants and stay at a hotel at a fabulous rate. You're about to experience the tastiest 17 days of the year!

The culinary event of the year returns and some changes are being made!From January 20-29, 2012, you can enjoy three-course dinners for $30.12 or $20.12. Also, select restaurants will be offering two-course lunch menus for just $15.12. See below for a list of participating restaurants.

Get ready for one of the largest Chinese New Year celebrations in the country as Los Angeles Chinatown kicks off the Year of the Dragon in a big way. The weekend of January 28 & 29, 2012 will be full of fun activities for all ages beginning with the 113th Annual Golden Dragon Parade on Saturday, Jan. 28th. Enjoy hundreds of spectacular floats, decked out cars, dancers and bands as they parade down the heart of Chinatown.

Here is a chance for you to take a bite out of the big apple and other great treats from top NY restaurants. January 16th kicks of restaurant week in New York City and famed restaurants allows visitors to enjoy mouth watering meals from their menus for a fraction of the price.

Deal-seeking diners, get your reservation fingers ready: The winter edition of D.C. Restaurant Week has been announced for Jan. 9-15, 2012. More than 200 restaurants will offer three-course lunches for $20.12 and dinners for $35.12.

Toronto's Winterlicious is a great excuse to get out of the kitchen and into the dining rooms of 150 Toronto restaurants, including some of the best ethnic and international venues in the city.

Culver City's fabulous Martin Luther King Celebration this Saturday! Among the speakers, Freedom Riders Robert and Helen Singleton. (See LA Times article.) Keynote speaker: Dr. Mitchell Curry, friend of Dr. King and accomplished organizer. Two young student organizers will speak, including the current chair of UCLA's Afrikan Student Union. The film "Freedom Riders" is powerful, extraordinary! We'll have lots of music as well as very special programming for youth.

Toronto’s Winterlicious is a great excuse to get out of the kitchen and into the dining rooms of 150 Toronto restaurants, including some of the best ethnic and international venues in the city.

When: Jan 25th to February 7th The U.S.A.'s culinary capital will host its winter restaurant week. Over 260 restaurants will participate offering lunches under $25 and dinners under $35.

Website: http://www.nycgo.com/restaurantweek

The Sundance Film Festival always draws loads of celebrities, media, and film lovers from around the world. This year, the festival which takes place in Park City Utah from January 21-31st, will screen a  total of 112 feature films from 36 countries by 44 first-time filmmakers (including 24 in competition). With those kinds of numbers, audiences will have their fill of good old fashioned movie-making. However, one cannot live by movies alone, and popcorn and nachos will only go but so far, so MCCN has compiled a listing of some local restaurants in the area where festival-goers will find everything thing they need to nourish themselves for the next round of film watching. Here's our listing: