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IL FORNELLO & Jamie Oliver Winner

October 5, 2012 by · Leave a Comment

Thank you to everyone who entered our September contest and congrats to our winner Carol Wood!! Carol will receive two tickets to Jamie Oliver at Massey Hall (for his upcoming show on Friday October 19th) alongside dinner for two at any IL FORNELLO Restaurant.

The entries we received, not only looked like they enjoyed their meal at IL FORNELLO, but we also received some fantastic photos. See below for a couple that we received & stay tuned for our next opportunity to win.

For more information on the Jamie Kennedy show or other upcoming events check roythompson.com and masseyhall.com.

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$100 IL FORNELLO Dinner & Mirvish Theatre Package

August 16, 2012 by · Leave a Comment

If you’ve been just too busy this summer to catch the wonderful Toronto productions of War Horse or Backbeat, now’s a great time to book your seats!

IL FORNELLO is proud to partner with Mirvish Productions for a Dinner Theatre Package that includes a Three Course Prix Fixe Dinner and a Top Tier Ticket to either War Horse or Backbeat for only $100. This is a great value for a night out in Toronto and the eligible seats for these hit shows are amazing! Actually, in many cases the face value of the ticket is more than the price for the full package.

Tickets are available online at Mirvish.com. Just enter the promo code ILFORNELLO‚ in the order process or you feel free to order by phone by calling 416 872 1212 or 1800 461 3333.

Click here to check out the Three Course Prix Fixe Dinner Menu (LINK)

ORDER PACKAGE NOW AT ONLINE

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The Beatles Are Back In Town!

July 12, 2012 by · Leave a Comment

Win a pair of tickets to Opening Night at the Royal Alexandra Theatre for Backbeat, the story of how the Beatles became‚ the Beatles.

If you haven’t checked out our Facebook page lately, you haven’t yet entered to win our latest Facebook contest running until July 25th. Easy to enter, just post your suggestion as to where you think we should open the next new IL FORNELLO Restaurant and you will automatically be entered to win two tickets to the July 29th premier of Backbeat and dinner for two at IL FORNELLO.

We look forward to hear what you think & good luck! Winner will be selected on July 25th. Prize must be accepted as awarded. No substitutions // prize has no cash value.

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Can’t wait for Summerlicous?

June 19, 2012 by · Leave a Comment

You don’t have to! IL FORNELLO, 214 King Street West and IL FORNELLO, Bayview Village are offering a delicious Two Course Prix Fixe Lunch for only $15 and IL FORNELLO, Bayview also has a Two Course Prix Fixe Dinner Menu priced at only $25. This is a great chance to indulge in some of our most popular menu items.

To view our menus, click here:

And to celebrate the Tenth Anniversary of Summerlicious, we are giving away Two Prix Fixe Lunches every week day (Monday to Friday) until July 5. To enter just ‘follow us’ on Twitter if you don’t already or, if you already follow us, just ReTweet our daily message about the Prix Fixe Lunch. It’s that easy

Each day you re-tweet you are automatically entered to win the Prix Fixe Lunch for Two at our King Street location that we give away that day. Good Luck and thanks for following us on Twitter @ilfornello.

Congrats to our first winner @FoodShootrSite and thanks everyone for your entries.

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Win Dinner for two & tickets to War Horse ($300 value)

June 5, 2012 by · Leave a Comment

Tell us your favourite dish at IL FORNELLO on our Facebook Page you are automatically entered to win tickets for two to War Horse in July and dinner for two at our King Street location! Prize is valued at more than $300.

We’ll announce the lucky winner at the end of June on Facebook. Good luck!

(The winner can select to attend a show and dinner on one of the following dates: July 10th, 11th, 17th, 18th, 24th or 25th.)
*Tickets valued at $220
**Dinner valued at up to $80 (does not include alcohol)

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IL FORNELLO Ajax Photo Gallery

May 20, 2012 by · Leave a Comment

Thanks to everyone who came out to our Grand Opening of IL FORNELLO Ajax on May17th! It was a great event and a great start for our newest location in Ajax. If you missed it, we took a couple photos! see below

If you have not yet visited our new location, please find hours & more details on our Ajax Page. We look forward to your first visit!

Also a special thanks to Arash Moallemi  for the amazing photography of the evening.

The IL FORNELLO Team

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Happy Mother’s Day!

May 10, 2012 by · Leave a Comment

We want to wish you a safe & happy Mother’s Day Weekend! It looks like we are going to have fantastic weather right across the GTA.

Why not get an early start and enjoy the great weather with your Mom on Saturday on one of our many patios. On the big day itself, we have delicious Mother’s Day Brunch Menus for Danforth, Yonge and The Beach beginning Sunday morning.

And at last we are just about ready to open the doors at our new Ajax location. Although we won’t be taking reservations for a while, we will be open for dinner beginning Friday, May 18 at 5 PM. Check out the latest progress below

Our Ajax Opening Schedule
Friday – Open at 5pm
Saturday – Open at 5pm
Sunday – Open at 5pm
Monday – Open at 5pm
Tuesday – Open starting at 11:30 for both lunch & dinner

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The latest from IL FORNELLO Ajax

May 1, 2012 by · 3 Comments

We are fully staffed and ALMOST ready to go in Ajax! Thanks to everyone who applied and congratulations to our new team.

We are scheduled to open at 5:00 PM, Friday May 18th.  We’re not taking reservations for now, but stop by to check us out sometime on the weekend.

Below is the latest sneak peak video of our progress.

If you want more information on our Ajax location please check our website.

Buon Appetito

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Ajax is almost there! Last chance for Job Fair

April 18, 2012 by · Leave a Comment

If you regularly drive by our new location on Kingston Road just west of Salem you’ll know that we are “this close” to opening.

And even if you haven’t been by lately, have a sneak peak inside. Click here

The comfortable, casual and contemporary dining room design with our imported wood-burning pizza oven from Italy as a focal point is going to be unlike anything Ajax has seen. And we guarantee the food will be great!

For updates and details on when we will officially open our doors, please sign up to our email list.

And…a last minute reminder to anyone who lives in the area and wants to apply for a position. Our job fair is on until 7pm today at 114 Dundas Street East Unit 200 with the Durham employment centre. Click here for full details

Until next time….

Buon Appetito

The IL FORNELLO team

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Ready, Set, Go…

April 5, 2012 by · Leave a Comment

We are pleased to announce that the details of our  Job Fair for our new Ajax location have been finalized and here they are:

Job Fair Details
Wednesday April 18th  11am to 7pm
114 Dundas Street East, Unit 200
Whitby, Ontario

The IL FORNELLO Job Fair is being held in partnership with the Durham Region Employment Centre.  We look forward to meeting those of you from Durham Region who have already expressed an interest in being a part of this great, new IL FORNELLO adventure!

Until next time…

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