Name: "An Evening in France: A French Food & Wine Affair"
Start: 2025-09-18T08:30:00+10:00
Location: 25 Queen St, Bendigo, VIC, Australia, Victoria 3550

"An Evening in France: A French Food & Wine Affair"
📅 Thursday, September 18, 2025
🕡 6:30 PM
📍 25 Queen Street, Bendigo
🎟️ Limited Seats – Booking Essential
Step into a night of elegance and indulgence as we bring the best of France to Bendigo. Join us for a curated multi-course French dinner, each dish expertly paired with wines from renowned wine curator and French wine distributor Patrick Walsh of CellarHand. From Curious Burgundy reds to crisp Loire whites, prepare to be transported.

Patrick Walsh enjoyed an impressive track record as a sommelier and restaurant manager in some of Melbourne’s finest food and wine establishments of the 1990s including Browns, Chinois, Walter’s Wine Bar and Langton’s. He served as president of the Australian Sommeliers Association and won the inaugural Frankland Estate International Riesling Scholarship before establishing his own distribution company, CellarHand, with wife Virginia in 1999.
He nominates Mosel Riesling and great Pinot Noir as his desert island wines. (In practice this would only work if the island were surrounded by an ocean of white Burgundy.)
🧀 Expect:
5 course French-inspired dinner
8 Curated wine pairings.
A guided tasting experience by Patrick Walsh
French jazz ambiance
Limited seating for an intimate dining experience
🎫 Tickets: $220 per person
🎟️ Ticket link
🍽️ Please be advised this is a set menu, & as such no dietaries or menu alterations will be possible.