Wouldn't your friends appreciate it more if you were present for dinner? Unless you are rewarding them, do you trust your friends and clients enough not to blow your credit limit in a swanky establishment such as this restaurant? Toronto was one of several Canadian cities featured in this late 1970s American Express campaign. All of the ads feature models who look too eager to serve cardmembers (check out Vancouver's entry). It's hard to...
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You may have already heard about the stellar line-up of bands going on for this year's Wintercity, but there's much more to this festival than an eclectic mix of tunes.
Now that New Years resolutions to lose those extra holiday pounds are firmly in place, the perfect excuse to break them and indulge is just around the corner -- Winterlicious.
Overheard at a King Street eatery, 10:00 PM Tuesday.
If you break out in hives just thinking about men in unitards and Cirque de Soleil, then the free entertainments, like the mythical circus show, Malaya, might not be your cuppa. But if you like food (and TOist contributors who write posts about Winterlicious whilst quoting MFDoom) then you'd do well to check out some of the restaurant menus you've long swooned over but never indulged in (the food on the menus that is, not the menus themeslves. please do not eat menus). In fact, you now have an excuse to go to Fred's Not Here. And report your findings back to Toist, who has never been there, but knows that Fred is indeed there, because he is certainly not here.

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