Winterlicious 2010

Get your taste buds ready for another season of Winterlicious in the city of Toronto. This will be the seventh year that Winterlicious has been in effect due to its popularity among Torontonians as it celebrates culture, creativity, and great food. This festival also includes more than just restaurants; there are free performances of fire installations, gravity-defying aerial dance performances, ice sculptures, and themed ice-skating parties down at Nathan Phillips Square.

Today, January the 14th, is when restaurants participating in Winterlicious will start to accept reservations for lunch and dinner.  These are the rules as follows for lunch and dinner prices that restaurants involved must abide by: $15 lunch and/or a $25 dinner, $20 lunch and/or $35 dinner, or $25 lunch and/or $45 dinner. A few popular restaurants that will be in the higher price brackets during Winterlicious are Canoe, Auberge de Pommier, Sassafraz, Nymark, and North 44; $25 lunch and/or $45 dinner. These restaurants will have good value, high-quality delivery, and good service making it well worth the money.

Winterlicious allows people who usually cannot afford to go out for a three-course meal the chance to experience some of Toronto’s best restaurants at affordable prices. However, there is a catch; many people experience rude servers and bad service because many people who go out for Winterlicious do not usually go out for dinner or go to that particular restaurant and are unfamiliar with tipping etiquette. This is where bad or rude service is rooted from at the cheaper Winterlicious restaurants. Nevertheless, do not let this deter you from experiencing this wonderful festival; it only happens twice a year and not all restaurants will be this way. Participating establishments are scattered all over the city so you can have the option of choosing a restaurant that is close by.

150 restaurants will be participating this year in Winterlicious and the festival will go from January 29th to February 11th. For a list of participation restaurants, click here.

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6 places are mentioned in this post!

1. Nathan Phillips Square
2. Canoe
3. Auberge du Pommier
   "An exquisite French restaurant constructed around the rustic vestiges of
4. Sassafraz
5. Nymark Medical Centre
6. North 44
   "Named after the city's latitude, North 44 is known to Toronto and

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