Best Bastille Day Sydney Events and Set Menus

Sydney’s French restaurants and bars are marking Bastille Day with everything from candlelit jazz nights to five-course wine pairings. Here’s where to go.

Ananas, The Rocks

Ananas is giving Bastille Day the full French brasserie treatment, anchored by a Cape Grim rib-eye on the bone with bordelaise. The optional 11-dish set menu spans oysters, crudités, chicken terrine and baba au rhum, alongside the regular à la carte menu.

• PRICE: $125pp (set menu, optional)
• WHEN: 11–14 July, lunch and dinner
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Bar Tilda, Sydney CBD

Bar Tilda is marking Fête de la Musique with a three-night takeover, transforming the CBD cocktail bar into a candlelit Parisian late-night escape, with live jazz, all-vinyl DJ sets and a French apéro menu of duck and foie gras croquettes, coquilles Saint-Jacques and oysters.

• WHEN: 9–11 July
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Aperitif & Co

Aperitif & Co is leaning into European bar culture and winter indulgence for Bastille week, with Tour de France wine flights, a three-course French wine pairing dinner and a rotating dessert and Champagne pairing menu.

• PRICE: $95pp (3-course wine pairing dinner)
• WHEN: 14–19 July (wine pairing dinner runs 14–16 July)
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LouLou

LouLou is extending Bastille Day into a six-day celebration of French culinary icons, with limited-edition pastries and a bistro menu inspired by Paul Bocuse, Joël Robuchon, Maison Troisgros and Bernard Pacaud.

• WHEN: Bastille Week, 14–19 July

Frenchies Bistro & Brewery

Frenchies is serving Cassoulet Montalbanais, a southwestern French classic of confit pork belly, house-made Toulouse sausage and confit duck leg, slow-baked with parsley and white beans in a rich tomato sauce.

• PRICE: $42
• WHEN: 14–19 July
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Frenchies Bakery & Pâtisserie

Two doors down from the bistro, the bakery is serving up French classics including daily baked baguettes, millefeuilles, éclairs, madeleines, Saint Honorés, croissants and pain au chocolats.

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Armorica, Surry Hills

Armorica is celebrating la fête nationale with two exclusive set menus from Executive Chef José Saulog, served to share, plus à la carte from $18. On 19 July, Nikki Nouveau performs French chanson classics — Piaf, Barbara, Brel — for a Parisian lunch. Book before 5 July for a complimentary glass of Chablis or Bordeaux with the lunch set menu.

• PRICE: Liberté $95pp (3 courses, min. 2 guests) or La Grande Révolution $160pp (4 courses, min. 4 guests)
• WHEN: 14–19 July, lunch and dinner
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Manly Pavilion

Head Chef Michael LeCouteur’s shared set menu runs from French onion soup and steak tartare through to beef bourguignon and sole meunière, finishing with a Paris-Brest. The night also features can-can dancers and French café singer Emma Hamilton.

• • PRICE: $110pp, includes a Parisian Daiquiri on arrival
  • WHEN: 11 July
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Bistro Moncur, Woollahra

Bistro Moncur is marking Bastille Day with a special menu from Head Chef Tom Deadman, including a truffle omelette, beef bourguignon and a hazelnut Paris-Brest. Guests also get 20% off French wines next door at Moncur Cellars.

• WHEN: Tuesday 14 July
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Bistro Red Lion by Manu, Rozelle

Manu Feildel’s Rozelle bistro is hosting a five-course Bastille Day dinner in a shared-table setting, opening with Champagne and canapés and featuring Comté cheese soufflé, scallop boudin and crème brûlée with Armagnac prunes.

• PRICE: $120pp
• WHEN: Tuesday 14 July
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