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GTA: Summerlicious is Back from July 6-22 (Reservations Begin June 19 With AMEX; June 21 Without)
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The dates and restaurants for this year's Summerlicious event were announced this morning! It's the 10th year of the event, and there will be over 180 restaurants participating.
From July 6-22, participating restaurants will be offering 3-course meals at lunch and dinner for $15, $20, $25, $35 or $45. A list of participating restaurants and their menu offerings can be found here.
Book early, as this promotion is known to sell out. Reservations open June 21, unless you have an American Express Card, in which case you can start making your reservations on June 19.
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I would stay away from Sassafraz, but that's just my opinion. They're food and service is garbage.
Never did it before.
The reality is that Winterlicious and Summerlicious can really such if you pick the wrong place. I hate to be a downer but here's what most restaurants do:
-They know that a flood of people will be coming
-They pre-make a lot of the dishes since the Winterlicious/Summerlicious menu is very small and they know they'll get plenty of the same orders
-Instead of each dish getting some love, it becomes a production line
-Since it's a "deal" price, portions get smaller; so if you're used to going and getting a huge plate at a certain place and then go to the same place thinking it's a great price for a three-course meal, expect smaller portions and worse quality
-Service tends to degrade since the restaurants are a zoo
Also, with the prices for lunch/dinner, usually it's the same cost as ordering an entree and appetizer/dessert, so if you don't eat all three courses normally, it's not great value for you.
I've done Winterlicious at every type of restaurant - low end, mid-tier and high-end (I used to be a food critic). I personally only go to the high end stuff now because I trust that the quality won't be worse even though it's a diversion from the norm of what these restaurants normally do.
Also, I see paying $45 for a high end place like Scarpetta or Lee's as good value because high end places don't have huge portions to begin with (usually) and their entrees tend to cost $30-$40 anyways, so trying a $45 dinner gives you an affordable, reasonable window into what the restaurant is really about.
Cheaper places tend to abuse this and just give you crappier food and smaller portions under the pretense of a three-course "deal" price.
Furthermore, I would cross reference the Summerlicious menu with the regular menu and make sure that it's food that they normally serve. Some spots in Little Italy or Yorkville will create a new menu and just give you some common steak/chicken breast/salmon as the main to save money, along with a caesar/spring mix salad to start and a basic chocolate cake to dessert. Then they'll charge you $35/$45 as if you're getting something special (see: Bier Market).
My advice: use some of Joanne Kates recommendations (http://www.postcity.com/Post-City-Ma...-2011/Top-100/) if they are available and go to the places you normally wouldn't go to, such as the fine dining/hot spots in the city. Sure, you can go to Bar Italia for a *cough* reasonable $15 lunch or $25 dinner, but it's probably stuff you can cook at home and it's not great bang for your buck.
When you get to the restaurant you can pay with whatever card you want. You don't have to pay with the same Amex and you don't have to show it either.
One of my best friend's favourite restaurant! Good value for money
Peter Pan - not getting a spectacular value, but their pasta is pretty darn tasty... the owner is arrogant though
http://wx.toronto.ca/inter/se/restau...5?OpenDocument
However, I must object to your recommendations from Joanne Kates - she hasn't been relevant to the Toronto food scene for the last 15 yrs. The woman thinks every restaurant must be like Scarmouche (which in itself has not been relevant for 10 years].
Her top 100 list put forth every year is ambitious but really who has been to 100 different restaurants x 2 times (minimum # of visits prior to a professional critique of a restaurant) in one year? Even though it's her job - I highly doubt she has visited more than 300 restaurants a year which makes her reviews a bit worthless, as 1 in 3 of the restaurants would make the list.
Anyways - there are much better lists. Google is a great way to start - tons of amateur food blogs and Chowhound listing as well as Yelp (which I only glance at sparingly) to help people out.
Any idea if these restaurants allow you to order additional dishes to the prix fixe? Haven't been to one of these events a few years.
This year marks Summerlicious' 10th anniversary! To celebrate, American Express wants to give American Expressî Consumer and Small Business Cardmembers the opportunity to earn a $15 STATEMENT CREDITââ¬Â . All you have to do to be eligible for this offer is be one of the first 10,000 Cardmembers to register your American Express Card at https://register.amexnetwork.com/CA/summer2012/, spend $50 or more at 3 different Summerlicious restaurants of your choice (total spend of at least $150) with your registered Card from July 6 to 22, 2012 and you can receive a $15 AMERICAN EXPRESS STATEMENT CREDIT.
They normally asked for first 4 or last 4 as you mentioned. But i made a reservation today for Sassafraz for group of 8 and needed the whole number and expiry date due to the large group.
I'm a new AMEX holder, can i make a reservation online somewhere or do i have to call in to be able to book before it opens to everyone?
thank you.