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Winterlicious Rides Again
Tue, 01/24/2012 - 11:11
In support of the annual feast of food that is Winterlicious, the City of Toronto has launched an interactive, Web-based tool to facilitate diners’ perusal and participation in the cold-weather culinary fest.
Each of the 175 participating Toronto restaurants (21 more than last year!) is alphabetically listed at http://wx.toronto.ca/inter/se/restaurants.nsf/Winterlicious, complete with a few words specifying what kind of eatery it is and its location. Symbols indicate whether the place serves local ingredients, offers vegetarian menu options, is accessible to wheelchairs and happens to be a member of the 10th-anniversary club.
Would-be patrons nominate the parameters of their search and generate a preferences list that reflects the type of food, neighbourhood and price range they seek....more
Rewriting Tuesdays
Thu, 12/22/2011 - 11:42
The movie theatres were the first to cotton on to the idea of Tuesday being the most dishwater-dull of all the days of the week. Now a slew of Toronto eateries are looking to inject their own kind-to-your-pocketbook-inspired mark on that full-of-grace day.
Tuesday Foodie is a spanking-new 52-week program, launching January 3, that gives cardholders a 30% break on the bill at a collection of local restaurants....more
Wine Tasting Challenge Satisfies
Fri, 12/09/2011 - 15:54
The Renaissance Project’s Wine Tasting Challenge was held in Toronto recently, and the eighth annual event attracted an enthusiastic crew of participants. That they were all in the right spirit goes without saying.
The Challenge, now recognized as one of the largest and most noted wine-tasting competitions in North America, has the dual mandate of encouraging future talent and highlighting Ontario’s professionals on the world stage.
The event is notable for lots of reasons, not the least of which is that it attracts the largest prize purse of its kind, anywhere. The $100,000-plus lot of goodies includes trips to Napa Valley, trips to Tuscany, a day with a master sommelier, cases of wines, private wine-and-cheese tasting parties, bursaries for wine education, stemware, celebrity-chef-hosted dinners, and, for the grand prize winner, a two-week foray to China....more
The Gladstone Contest: Other Reasons 1889 Rocked
Mon, 11/28/2011 - 09:45
The Gladstone Hotel prides itself on notable achievements across a number of fronts. And we’re talking about some pretty cool stuff here, not just manufactured superlatives, like the restaurant professing to serve the “world’s best hog maw” or the pub with the “city’s comfiest bar stools.”
Consider, for one, that the Gladstone’s Melody Bar was named among the top 10 bars in the world by the Condé Nast Traveler Readers’ Choice Awards. No small potatoes, that.
Nor is the one about the Gladstone being the oldest continuously operating hotel in the city. That’s a pretty nifty claim to fame to bandy about with your buds.
Or that it was one of the first 10 hotels in the province to be granted permission to allow its patrons to drink and play shuffleboard in a licensed alcoholic area, at one time even skirting the municipal imperative that all beverage rooms had to close between 6:30 p.m. and 8:00 p.m....more