The French-leaning menu features garlic snails and pigeon melba toast.

May 15, 2025

L’Avant Cave

French$$

Forget the cheeseboard. At L’Avant Cave, you can pair your glass of minimal-intervention Australian wine with a $35 set menu of French snacks from hatted Paddington restaurant Porcine.

Chef Nik Hill partnered with P&V Merchants to rebrand the independent bottle shop’s leafy courtyard wine bar in late March, introducing pigeon-liver Melba toast, trout rillettes with horseradish cream, and rock oysters with smoked-eel vinegar.

P&V has a rotating list of eight wines by the glass, each representing a different category, from “fun orange” to “baller red” and beyond. You can also BYO any bottle of wine purchased from P&V Merchants to L’Avant Cave for $25 corkage.

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Source: The Sydney Morning Herald · Bianca Hrovat

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Topic
World
Country
🇦🇺 AU
Publisher language
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