Summerlicious is well represented north of St. Clair. Here are the 16 Toronto Life picks for Leaside, Davisville, Don Mills and Yonge and Eglinton. Read the rest of this entry »
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Summerlicious 2011: Toronto Life’s lunch and dinner picks north of St. Clair
Summerlicious 2011: Toronto Life’s best bets west of Bathurst
Let’s face it—Summerlicious is a downtown-centric festival. Still, here are eight Toronto Life recommendations west of Bathurst. Read the rest of this entry »
Summerlicious 2011: Toronto Life’s picks for Yorkville and the Annex
Some of Yorkville and the Annex’s best restaurants participate in Summerlicious each year. Here, 14 of Toronto Life’s favourites. Read the rest of this entry »
Get set for the onslaught: the 2011 Summerlicious restaurants have been announced
Now that we’ve had a few days in a row without rainfall, it seems only fitting that Summerlicious menus were announced today. The city’s prix fixe extravaganza runs from July 8 to 24, and economical epicures can start flooding restaurant voicemail boxes with reservation requests starting June 23 (or June 21 if you’ve got an Amex card).
The ground rules for this ninth edition of the festival are the same as last year’s, with lunch menus are available for $15, $20 and $25, and dinner for $25, $35 and $45. Once again, 150 restaurants are participating. Check out our 63 best bets »
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Get ready, everybody: Winterlicious 2011 starts today and we’ve got you covered
Sesame balls at Lai Toh Heen (Image: Benson Kua)
After 17 days of furious jockeying for reservations, Winterlicious—the city’s annual festival of prix-fixe menus, packed dining rooms and run-ragged servers—is finally underway. In case you don’t already have the next two weeks worth of dining planned out, take a look at our comprehensive coverage:
• The Best of Winterlicious 2011: Toronto Life’s 62 favourite restaurants
• 12 best bets for Winterlicious 2011: our chief critic goes through the menus so you don’t have to
• Alternalicious: a roundup of this year’s Winterlicious rebels
Winterlicious runs from today, January 28, to February 10.
Alternalicious: a roundup of this year’s Winterlicious rebels
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Few subjects are as divisive among Toronto diners and industry people as the merits of Summer- and Winterlicious. While the biannual culinary event may help restaurants fill empty tables during an otherwise slow season, as we’ve explored before, participation in the city-run festival can have its limitations (dining rooms filled with stingy tippers, owners bound by the city’s rules). As in previous years, a number of restaurants have decided to strike out on their own with prix fixe specials.
The Best of Winterlicious 2011: Toronto Life’s 62 favourite restaurants
(Image: Renée Suen, from the torontolife.com Flickr pool)
January is upon us, and for many hungry Torontonians, that means one thing: Winterlicious. The menus are less predictable than previous years—crème brûlée’s out, lentils du Puy are in—so even the ’Licious haters might have a reason to take advantage of the festival this year. We’ve already named the 12 menus that we think are the best bets, but that doesn’t begin to cover it. Here, find Toronto Life’s 62 favourite Winterlicious restaurants, complete with menus, reviews and reservation numbers.
Winterlicious runs from January 28 to February 10. Reservations are accepted from January 13 onward (January 11 for American Express users).
12 best bets for Winterlicious 2011: our chief critic goes through the menus so you don’t have to
A steak dinner at Noce (Image: Renée Suen)
Big-spending downtown Torontonians have taken in the past few years to whining about Winterlicious, but the two-week dining festival, running from January 28 through February 10, remains popular for a reason: it offers great value, particularly if you choose your reservations well. Here are a dozen of Toronto Life’s best bets. They’re older, more established places, generally, with kitchens that clearly care. And though we haven’t yet tasted the restaurants’ 2011 Winterlicious menus, they’re full of interesting, delicious-sounding picks.
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The Winterlicious 2011 menus are out, so let’s compare them to previous years
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By now, Torontonians are well-seasoned winterliciousers—and at Winterlicious 2011, we will be deftly dodging the wilted arugula and heading straight for the belly of the beast (preferably pork). Looking through the newly published list of restaurants and menus, there is plenty to be pleased about this January. Our popular “Best of Winterlicious” piece is coming out next week, but we thought we’d get a jump on things and take a look at how this year’s roster compares with last year’s ’Licous lists.
The 64 best bets at Summerlicious 2010
Dig in, bargain foodies: lunch at Canoe
The annual prix fixe extravaganza is upon us once more. Reservations start today for American Express cardholders and on June 24 for everyone else. We’ve looked over the 150 participating restaurants to figure out the 64 best bets.
Here, the festival’s top menus, reviews and recommendations »
Summerlicious 2010: the restaurants have been announced, so let’s pick them apart
The view from Toula: be a tourist in your own city (Image: Ian Muttoo)
First things first: there’s not much change under the Summerlicious sun. All of the old favourites are here (including Canoe and Bymark, which always sell out first). Seven Numbers, which by Winter/Summerlicious rules is allowed only one location, has swapped out its Danforth location for its Eglinton one. Winterlicious participant Conviction is out for the summer edition as the second season of Conviction Kitchen films in Vancouver. The new owners of Crush Wine Bar are apparently not feeling the ’licious love—nor is Moroco. And while The Citizen’s digs are alive and kicking under new ownership, its vaunted replacement, Ruby Watchco, is opting out.
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Get those dialling digits ready: Summerlicious restaurants have been announced
It’s the day every frugal foodie has been looking forward to since February: the Summerlicious restaurants have been announced. Reservations can be made starting June 24. One hundred and fifty restaurants are participating in the 2010 edition of the prix fixe extravaganza, which runs from July 9 to 25.
At first blush, Summerlicious 2010—the eighth edition—looks pretty similar to Winterlicious 2010. There have been no controversial price hikes. In fact, compared to last year’s Summerlicious, the cost of the most expensive lunch has come down by $5. This year, lunch is being served for $15, $20 or $25 and dinner for $25, $35 or $45.
See Toronto Life‘s picks for the 64 best bets at Summerlicious 2010 »
Backlash menus: some Toronto restaurants go rogue during Winterlicious by serving up their own prix fixe
(Photo by Alpha)
Summer- and Winterlicious are divisive topics among those in the restaurant biz: some enjoy the increased business, while others hate working within the city’s rules. This year, however, there seems to be a surge in non-Winterlicious events—or, as it’s known in the Twitterverse, Antilicious.
The Samovar Room, for example, is holding Vodkalicious, with a three-course vodka-inspired menu for $30. “It was simply too late to apply to be a part of it,” said Samovar’s Rumen Dimitroff, whose vodka bar opened in late August (the deadline for this year’s applicants is August 10). “Winterlicious is a great event, and I still wanted to do something special around the same time.”
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Winterlicious reservations start today
Today is the biggest pre-festival day for Winterlicious: reservations are now being taken at the 150 participating restaurants. Tables at the most renowned spots always go quickly, but there is more to this event than Canoe and Bymark. For the discerning diner, Toronto Life has picked the 69 best bets of Winterlicious and presents complete lunch and dinner menus, as well as our starred reviews.
The 69 best restaurants of Winterlicious
