Get ready, everybody: Winterlicious 2011 starts today and we’ve got you covered
Get ready, everybody: Winterlicious 2011 starts today and we’ve got you covered
After 17 days of furious jockeying for reservations, Winterlicious—the city’s annual festival of prix-fixe menus, packed dining rooms and run-ragged servers—is finally underway. In case you don’t already have the next two weeks worth of dining planned out, take a look at our comprehensive coverage:
• The Best of Winterlicious 2011: Toronto Life’s 62 favourite restaurants
• 12 best bets for Winterlicious 2011: our chief critic goes through the menus so you don’t have to
• Alternalicious: a roundup of this year’s Winterlicious rebels
Winterlicious runs from today, January 28, to February 10.
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After 17 days of furious jockeying for reservations, Winterlicious—the city’s annual festival of prix-fixe menus, packed dining rooms and run-ragged servers—is finally underway. In case you don’t already have the next two weeks worth of dining planned out, take a look at our comprehensive coverage:
• The Best of Winterlicious 2011: Toronto Life’s 62 favourite restaurants
• 12 best bets for Winterlicious 2011: our chief critic goes through the menus so you don’t have to
• Alternalicious: a roundup of this year’s Winterlicious rebels
Winterlicious runs from today, January 28, to February 10.){kind=link}
‘Winterlicious’ sounds ridiculous. It might as well be called ‘losericious’ (put a loser, with delicious). If the word ‘Winterlicious’ reads not all that good, chances is the programme itself is not good, either.
Go to London, U.K., you’ll find sophisticated restaurant deal websites, with better sounding names, such as ‘TopTable.com’, or, ‘LastMinute.com’; both sound more appealing than the tacky ‘Winterlicious’ banner.
As far as poetry goes, ‘Winterlicious’ reads and sounds disgusting, a hokey attempt at synthesizing the concepts of winter, with delicious… When was the last time you thought to yourself, “wow, what a delicious winter we’re having”, or, “this winter is so delicious”, and the answer is probably, never.
It should have been called ‘Winter Delicious’, or, better, ‘Delicious Winter’, but, maybe that makes too much sense? ‘Eat Snow’ would have been far more truthful, or, ‘Don’t Eat Yellow Snow’!
@ R.M.
(I can only assume that is short for “Rudimentary Man”)
Winterlicious may indeed be ridiculous, but you are an idiot. “Winterlicious reads not all that good”? “Chances is”? Come on now, my 5 year old has a better grasp of grammar than that!