Bastille Day French Festival Melbourne
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The best ways to celebrate Bastille Day in Melbourne

Celebrate French Independence Day at one of these special events

Cassidy KnowltonAdena Maier
Contributor: Liv Condous
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Joyeux Quatorze Juillet! July 14 is Bastille Day, and it marks the start of the French Revolution and the beginning of the end of the French monarchy. In France, it's a huge cause for celebration. For Australians, it's a bit like St Patrick's Day — it doesn't matter if you're not French, you can still participate in the festivities. 

We've put together a list of the best events happening this Bastille Day, so whether you want to celebrate July 14 because it's part of your heritage or if you're just in it for the croissants and Champagne, here's where you'll find the best festivities.

Just want the best croissants in Melbourne? You need to go here. Or find out what else is going on in Melbourne in July.

How to celebrate Bastille Day in Melbourne

  • French
  • Collingwood

This restaurant is steeped in the romance of 1920s Paris, from a stage-set salon to please the most devout Francophile to a menu steeped in the certainties of snails, saucisson sec and soufflé. And for Bastille Day, punters can partake in a $85 per person set menu lunch full of French favourites. Think souffle suissesse with gruyere sauce, duck leg confit, scallop gratinee, and crème brulée to finish. To book, head to the website.

  • Patisseries
  • Fitzroy
  • price 1 of 4

Created in a climate-controlled lab, Lune croissants are almost mathematically perfect: crisp and golden with visible layers of delicate pastry. Having a tightly controlled cubic lab in the centre of their Fitzroy warehouse store for optimum pastry-making doesn't come across as too unusual when you consider the fact that Kate Reid used to be a racing car engineer. She studied for years in Paris to perfect her technique, and the resulting buttery, flaky pastries are magnifique. 

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  • Melbourne
Enjoy a crêpe at La Petite Creperie
Enjoy a crêpe at La Petite Creperie

Pick up a plum jam or salted caramel crepe from this tiny converted newspaper stand in the CBD for a sweet fiver. What could be more French than that?

Just after the pastries?

  • Patisseries

It's amazing that pastry, at its simplest, is just flour, lots of butter, sugar, and maybe an egg or two. Yet Melbourne's best bakeries and patisseries have made a craft out of baking croissants and bundt cakes. Here are the best of the bunch.

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