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| - Fran's has a cozy spot in Toronto's history, and I'm not here to take that away from them. This is the "historic" Fran's where a couple aunts and uncles of mine went on their first dates, where I first learned the glory of late night food, and where I later learned that late night food is all too often accompanied by obnoxious people.
This location in particular, is usually filled with obnoxious 19-year-old GTA-ers, out to celebrate someone's birthday, looking for food at 3 am when the clubs close. And that's fine, it's just not my cup of tea.
The food at Fran's is decent diner food. They have the typical all-day-breakfast, tons of different sandwiches and other assortments, and none of it is bad, but none of it stands out as phenomenal, except the milkshakes. You MUST get a milkshake from Fran's to fully understand the meaning of milkshakes.
Breakfast-wise, they do a good job, but I'm not a huge fan of the home fries -- I find them low on the flavour scale but high on the grease scale. Tip the scales and I'd like them a lot more.
If you're coming to Toronto, you have to come to Fran's at least once (especially for a milkshake). If you like dingy diners, the College St location is for you, but I tend to lean towards the newer, cleaner one on Shuter, although they don't have the Banana Chocolate Chip pancakes there for some strange reason.
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