
Elle M’a Dit is offering a $17 lunch and $24 dinner prix fixe (Image: Karolyne Ellacott)
One-hundred-and-eighty-one restaurant kitchens across the city are in full onslaught mode with Summerlicious now in day six—but of course, not everyone is on board with the annual foodie festival. Criticisms lobbed at the popular city-wide fête include hurried guests and hastily thrown together food as restaurants work overtime to deal with the influx of low-tipping and no-showing diners. This year, as in past years, a handful of restaurants have taken matters into their own hands, crafting rogue prix fixe menus outside the parameters of the official program.
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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, 