Calphalon’s Moroccan Inspired Slow Roasted Chicken. Winterlicious—it is back. New this year, in addition to the special menu fare, are several new culinary events meant to give us the chance to get more creative with our dining. And so, of course, we had to check some of them out. Calphalon Culinary Centre: Winterlicious Class Walking [...]

In today's Urban Planner, consume dramatic scenes and Winterlicious treats inspired by the '30s, '40s, and '50s; meet the artists behind some of Toronto's favourite back-alley murals; help local musicians raise funds for worthy charities; experience art and literary criticism in 3D; and check out rhymes by some of the GTA's best rap artists.

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 [...]

Urban Planner is Torontoist’s guide to what’s on in Toronto, published every weekday morning, and in a weekend edition Friday afternoons. If you have an event you’d like considered, email all of its details—as well as images, if you’ve got any—to events@torontoist.com. Namastey brings the sights and sounds of Bollywood to this year’s WinterCity Festival. [...]

Love it or loathe it; Winterlicious is back for its eighth year as part of the WinterCity Festival, and it’s the biggest it’s ever been. Not only are 150 of Toronto’s upscale restaurants offering three-course prix fixe menus at lunch and dinner for as little as fifteen dollars (lunch) and twenty-five dollars (dinner), but this [...]