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 decor 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!