Winterlicious is coming back and there are new restaurants this year in Toronto

Winterlicious is back yet again for another year of delicious deals on tasty multi-course prix fixe menus in Toronto, and this year there are some new restaurants to check out.

Year after year, Winterlicious brings lots of excitement to the city, but the options for restaurants to check out can stay mostly the same. This means it’s always extra special to see which shiny new restaurants are on the list for the coming festival.

Winterlicious is a Toronto-wide food event where restaurants across the city offer special prix-fixe menus at a range of set prices. Nearly 250 restaurants are serving three-course meals at price points of $20, $27, $34, $41, $48 and $55 for lunch, or $25, $35, $45, $55, $65 and $75 for dinner.

All kinds of popular restaurants across the city of Toronto will be participating in the festival this year, including favourites such as Pai, The Ace, Indian Street Food Co., Bar Neon, Auberge de Pommier, Pukka and Savor Thai.

Two returning restaurants located in Toronto’s historic Distillery District are Cluny Bistro and Pure Spirits. Cluny Bistro’s Winterlicious menu includes options like French onion soup, a Caesar salad, beef bourguignon, skate St. Jacques, gnocchi, and desserts including crème brûlée or a berry cheesecake eclair, available at both the $41 lunch and $55 dinner tiers.

Pure Spirits is serving lunch priced at $34 and dinner priced at $45, with options that include East Coast oysters, sea bass, seared salmon, maple crème brûlée and opera cake.

But on to the exciting stuff: two of the newest additions to the Winterlicious roster this year are Deauville Club and Notte.

Deauville Club is serving a $48 lunch menu starting with a choice between a Caesar salad, tomato salad, or field greens, and then for mains, a brie and mushroom burger, seared Cajun Chicken Piccola, spinach miso alfredo penne, or Salmon Provençal. For their $65 dinner menu, choose from Mediterranean kale salad or wild mushroom truffle arancini to start, and then for mains move on to Frenched chicken supreme, Pernod flambéed salmon, harissa winter curry or ricotta spinach bauletti.

Notte is serving a $55 dinner, featuring appetizers of truffle salad, tuna tonnato, or beef carpaccio, and options for mains that include squash and mushroom risotto, grilled branzino, cornish hen, or roasted porchetta. For desserts they’ve got tiramisu, a pistachio cannoli, or chocolate torta.

Of course, there are also a ton of other newer and older restaurants on the list of over 240 participating establishments offering all kinds of different menus catering to many different tastes, so check out the list to see which ones you want to try.

Reservations for Winterlicious are now open.

Winterlicious runs across the city of Toronto from Jan. 20 to Feb. 12.