French restaurants in Toronto
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Chabichau
The selection of cheeses and pâté (try the duck and pistachio) grab your eyes, but don't miss the sandwiches on homemade bread or daily specials such as pork-apple stew. Simple, hearty, awesome.
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Bloor Street Diner
Humbly named but actually pretty swanky, the recently updated Bloor Street Diner impresses with a Parisian-style patio, a distinguished wine list and a massive weekend brunch buffet (with live music). Hit the cafe section out the front in the mall for speedy take-out sandwiches.
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Global Cheese
WOW, have you ever seen such an amazing cheese shop? Crowds elbow for a spot near the counter where staff, hidden behind teetering stacks of cheese, distribute slivers of Greek feta, Canadian gouda, Argentine parmesan and Swiss emmenthal. Taste a few, order a wedge then hit the streets.
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Bistro 990
Ground zero for Toronto International Film Festival starlets bunking down at the Sutton Place Hotel, Bistro 990 feels a bit lost on a blustery reach of Bay St, but continues to serve fine French standards like duck in blackberry jus and rabbit fricassee. The wine selection is excellent, but unless you're Sean Penn, service can be surly.
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Celestin
Chef Pascal Ribreau's imaginative French cooking triumphs inside a converted 1920s bank, where tantalizing amuse-bouche (amusements for the mouth) precede artful mains of succulent duck confit, pan-seared giant prawns with smoked pepper compote or roasted Québec squab. Celestin's atmosphere induces serenity, with widely spaced tables and superb waitstaff who are on a first-name basis with the wines cellared in the old bank vault.
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Auberge du Pommier
A culinary college for Toronto's best chefs, graceful Auberge du Pommier is constructed from a pair of 19th-century woodcutters' cottages. Plates of roast lamb loin with olive tapenade and Provençal vegetables ($38), and butter-poached lobster glazed with citrus and tarragon ($40) look like they should be in a gallery (or at least a cookbook). Wine selections focus on French vintages, plus a few Niagara labels. It's a long hike from the city centre north of the intersection of Yonge St and York Mills Rd, opposite William Carson Cres.
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