Best Toronto restaurants for Winterlicious 2016

Winterlicious begins January 29 and lasts until February 11. With over 200 participating restaurants, you’ve got a lot of decisions to make. This year, three-course lunch menus are $18, $23 and $28 and dinner three-course meals are available for $25, $35 and $45 (taxes and gratuities extra).After pouring through all the menus, here are my top 5 picks for Winterlicious 2016:

Best Toronto restaurants for Winterlicious 2016
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Tutti Matti Restaurant

364 Adelaide St W, Toronto, ON M5V 1R7

Chef/owner Alida Solomon has been serving up traditional, authentic Tuscan cuisine, using only fresh ingredients from local farmers since 2002. Everything on the seasonal menu is made in house, including all pastas and desserts. The lunch ($23) and dinner ($35) menus share only a few of the same items – just soup of the day and desserts. Otherwise, the choices are wide ranging from Crostone (squash, ricotta, sautéed black kale) and Spezzatino (braised beef stew, turnips, rosemary polenta) for lunch, and Maremma Toscana (suckling Tamworth pig, tuna mayo, arugula, deep fried shallots, toasted country bread) and Guanciale di Vitello (braised veal cheeks, black pepper corns, parsnip puree) for dinner. Toronto is inundated with Italian restaurants. But nothing like this one.

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