Francobollo

Enjoyed my meal here! Good Ceasar salad and penne arriabata. Service is always great and a nice uptown restaurant to go.
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The interior is lovely, but that did not compensate for expensive, mediocre food. By chance I overheard someone from my fitness class discussing the restaurant who had recently eaten dinner there and who had the same experience and came to the same conclusion, not worth going back.

Welcome to your next uptown date night.
The sister restaurant to the fabulous Terra in Thornhill has two key things going for it… impressively designed décor and really good food.
Grilled sardines and beef carpaccio to start the meal were both on point. For mains, we chose snow crab risotto from the list of specials, and vitello al limone (lemon veal scaloppine) from the regular menu. Everything was delicious!
Now…having said that, I need to mention (simply because they have shared ownership) that Terra is still a better restaurant. It’s 5 stars while Franco is hovering somewhere just above a 4. For one thing, we dined at Franco with two other couples and were involved in animated conversation for most of the night, which caused the server to become clearly impatient when trying to communicate with us. Not sure if she was being rude, or us, or both. Either way, it’s her job to remain pleasant and our job to enjoy ourselves, capiche? :) Also, some of the food at Terra blew our hair back with its amazing-​ness. Franco was great but not yet at that level.
Still – recommended!

Great little restaurant located on Avenue Road. Beautiful and modern interior and very pleasant staff.
Menu has some unique items that you won’t usually find at other places. Tastes delicious and looks beautiful. I suggest to make a reservation as its small and gets packed pretty quick. Highly recommend to visit this place, especially good for a special occasion.

This is a brand new and excellent Italian restaurant. It is owned by the owners of Terra (another fine establishment) and Rustys (that bar in blue mountain). We had the pasta and it was freshly cooked. One of the best tiramisu in the city. All desserts are made in house (not imported) and the focaccia bread to start off was freshly baked!
Cauliflower soup was light and not creamy and the ambiance is a little loud but still a good new restaurant to check out birth of Bloor…