| Short answer: you cannot directly select a particular menu in the menubar. Best you can get is to "put the focus" on the menubar, then use the arrow keys to move around the menus and menu selections.
Many menu commands come with pre-defined shortcuts, as I'm sure you well know, and you can define your own shortcuts in the System Preferences > Keyboard & Mouse > Keyboard Shortcuts, clicking the "+" button and adding your own. AFAIK, you cannot add a shortcut for the "File" menu itself, but you can for any of the menu selections.
Perhaps a search of versiontracker.com for 3rd-party software may help -- something like QuicKeys or something, I don't know...
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