The Bistro Rex, which opened in 2017

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While we might not want their subs, Sydney’s Kings Cross is suddenly overwhelmed in return for snails, steak fries and creme brulee with a deluge of French restaurants, cafes, bistros and retail outlets.

“It’s strange that there are so many French dishes on offer in the area now,” said Leigh McDivitt, chef at Bistro Rex in Potts Point. “It may be a great travel substitute in this time of COVID.

“But I also think people now appreciate the quality products and job function email database the traditional recipes – and we cut our own meat here and age it as well. There are also a lot of professionals, actors, artists and elderly people in the area who might be more used to French cuisine and French gastronomy. And we offer them good food in a magnificent setting and especially no politics!

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Le Bistrot 916 opened in February.
with its chicken and guinea fowl pie, its Café De Paris steaks and fries, its Coq au Fizz (chicken roasted in a champagne embers) and its classic mille-feuille with berries, is just one example. phalanx French establishments now colonizing the Cross.

Nearby are Franca Brasserie, Le Petit Louvre, Café de la Fontaine, Macleay Bistro serving modern French-inspired Australia, Bistrot 916, which opened in February, and the newest establishment, Rustic French Bistro, which has opened in mid-September. They join the classic French pastry Croissant d’Or a few doors down from Mon Petit Choux (mon petit chou), which, despite its copper name, is actually a clothing store.

“The French style of cooking has always been popular,” said Andrew Becher, managing director of Franca Brasserie, which opened further along Rue Macleay in what is considered the “end of Paris”. from Kings Cross in July 2019. “Many other cultures are influenced. by French cuisine.