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Urban Planner: June 23, 2011

Today’s Urban Planner is all about indulging in food and drink: start off your day with healthy food at a farmers' market; spend your night tasting the city’s finest beers, wines, and chocolates; and don't forget to book your table at the upcoming Summerlicious.

Weekend Planner: July 10–11, 2010

This weekend: fine dining, a G20 protest, moustache mayhem, a screening of Annie, The Shakespearience Festival, and Everything Is Terrible!

Three Reasons to Give Summerlicious a Second Chance

Illustration by Brian McLachlan/Torontoist. It’s that time of year again—the time when those who love to hate average food start writing snobbish soliloquies about the pitfalls of Summerlicious. (We should know; we wrote one about Winterlicious last year.) Some say Summerlicious menus pale in comparison to the participating restaurants’ non-Summerlicious fare. Others claim that patrons [...]

Summerlicious-ish

While walking around the city recently, we couldn’t help but notice the abundance of non-Summerlicious restaurants advertising prix fixe promotions with names that reference the City’s program, but carefully avoid infringing on the trademark. It made us wonder just how difficult it is for restaurants to get accepted into the ‘liciouses, and how the City [...]

Summerlicious Times Are Here Again

It takes a licking, but it comes back for more. In its seventh year, the “–liciouses” (Summer and Winter) have come under a lot of fire from both sides of the table. Customers complain of miniscule portions and hasty service; waiters groan about small tips and overcrowding. In the end, we’ll all jump in because [...]