La Buvette is devoted to French aperitif culture, with a compelling selection of liquid pleasures, from lo-fi wines to beer and aperitifs, matched with a cave à manger menu.
The nuts & bolts
That overlay is no gimmick, with owner Dominique Lentz able to claim this identity as a birthright. The foundation concept was to bring the French approach to aperitifs to Australia, tightly interlocking food and wine. As it should be. No, this is no theme bar, but rather a very strong cultural statement, fusing the Old World with the new, of tradition coming full circle to embrace the unvarnished and unpasteurised spirit of today’s best artisans of food and wine.
The wine list has a natural focus, with both French and Australian wines featured. The offer runs to about 150 bottles of limited and typically hard to find gear, with five of the scarcer bottlings rotated through the by-the-glass list, complementing the main offer of 15. Those specials are all zero-addition wines, and they’re available by the half glass. In keeping with the ‘apero’ theme, La Buvette also carries an exhaustive range of classic and hard-to-find Aperitifs. Kronenbourg ‘1664’ is unmovable from one of the three beer taps, but the other two are rotated on a weekly basis.
The food is intrinsically French and Australian at the same time. French by design, and largely Australian by derivation, with locally made charcuterie complemented by a bistro menu centred around local, seasonal produce. Lentz draws the line at cheese, however, with the French flag waving proudly over the fromage selection.
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