A to Z taste of San Diego

Jan. 15-20: About 100 San Diego County restaurants will offer special prix-fixe dinners for San Diego Restaurant Week. Restaurants from Adobe to Zocalo Grill will offer a selection of three appetizers, three entrees and three desserts for $30 per person. Other participants are El Bizcocho, whose chef, Gavin Kaysen, garnered San Diego magazine’s 2004 best chef award; Fresh Seafood Restaurant & Bar in La Jolla, whose Matthew Zappoli was called one of “five chefs to watch” by Bon Appetit magazine; and Mille Fleurs in Rancho Santa Fe, which earned a spot on Forbes.com’s recent tally of “most expensive restaurants in the U.S.”

www.sandiegorestaurantweek.com. Reservations encouraged. Beverages, tax and tip are extra.

Park City, Utah

Jan. 19-29: Beyond potential deals for 120 indie feature films, the annual arrival of the Sundance Film Festival means this ski town will turn into a cultural hub. Panels, lectures, musical performances and parties fill every venue in town. With its mission of showcasing work that embodies “creative risk-taking, diversity and aesthetic innovation,” the festival offers films that “will not be mistaken for typical mainstream fare,” says festival director Geoffrey Gilmore.

Individual event tickets, $10; online preregistration ($5) required by Jan. 5. Go to festival.sundance.org.

Breckenridge, Colo.

Jan. 24-29: The Budweiser International Snow Sculpture Championships return to Breckenridge for the 16th year, with 13 teams from 10 countries competing. Each year, four-person teams are assigned 12-foot-tall, 20-ton blocks of machine-made snow; they have five days to shape them into enormous sculptures that are whimsical, witty or political. Weather permitting, the works remain on view until Feb. 5.

Adjacent to Riverwalk Center, downtown Breckenridge; (970) 453-2913, www.gobreck.com.