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Reviewed by Toronto Life
  • 4 Front St. E. (at Yonge) • View on map »
  • 416-860-0086
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Editorial Review

Few Paris bistro meals ever end with fresher-from-the-oven, more buttery madeleines than Biff’s. The look is right, too, the table spacing generous, the clientele classifiable only by its worldliness. Fork-tender rack of lamb is served with herbed gnocchi; less salt would improve an otherwise dandy skate wing served with mixed legumes, lemon and herbs. But fricasseeing escargots with lardon, brandy and toasted brioche turns a bistro cliché around the buoy and into a new millennium. ...

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