Bloorcourt is home to this effortlessly chic bistro, where ingredients are seasonal and top notch, and the team excels at breathing new life into classic French dishes. Beyond the signature — a dish made from the heritage breed of chicken that lends the restaurant its name — you'll want to order the tartare, duck and orange-scented crème brûlée.

A butcher shop and bistro bar à vin, this quaint hangout feels transplanted directly onto Ossington Avenue from the city of lights. There's no better spot to sip on Bordeaux while you nibble on escargots and steak frites and ignore the fact that you're actually in Toronto.

Pitch-perfect plates, piled high with lovingly handled, premium ingredients, parade from the kitchen at this petite Harbord Village spot. With the seasons playing a key role in each night's menu, diners might find fried zucchini flowers with chive dip, halibut with beurre blanc or house sausage with pistou on any given visit.

With a name that translates to tipsy, it's fitting that diners leave this elegant Little Italy spot feeling deliriously high on life. Guided by tradition, chef Martine Bauer coaxes seasonal ingredients to perform their best, in dishes ranging from twee crab tartelettes, with tarragon curry mayo, to gnocchi with snails and hazelnut-scented mille feuilles.

Seven days a week, hungry diners head to Brockton Village to get their fill of salade Niçoise, duck confit, ratatouille, crème caramel and other staples of the French culinary canon. The type of gem every neighbourhood deserves, this one counts friendly service and modest prices as part of its appeal.

This elegant Rosedale space trades in the colours, aromas and flavours of the Mediterranean, in dishes like wine-soused mussels and bouillabaisse. With plenty of pasta, meat and poultry dishes rounding out the menu, even the seafood averse find something to delight.

The menu at this warm and lively Annex bistro reads like a master class in French cooking. For wine that flows, affable service, boeuf Bourguignon, vol au vent d'escargots, coq a l'Alsacienne and other quintessentially French dishes, there's no better spot.

Described as "bistronomy," food at this beloved East Chinatown restaurant is casual yet refined, classic, rich and supremely tasty. Best enjoyed with something stellar from the team's exclusively French wine list, dinner here is like a mini-break spent on the other side of the Atlantic.

This spot on West Queen West offers classic French and diner food, without making that feel even remotely strange. Chalk it up to an expert team capable of making everything — from sole meunière to fish sticks — feel haute. Whatever you order, have it with frites.