Bar FrancoChristmas lunches & dinnersThe Crossing, Christchurch1–23 December
Private lunch functions available on request.
“We’ve had glowing reports from the whole team.” Giana, corporate function
Lunch or dinner: house-made pasta, Negronis and candlelight, and a team that runs the night so you don’t have to.
December Fridays: Fri 11 & Fri 18 left in the Restaurant · Midweek & lunch dates open.
Three ways to celebrate
Passed around, sat down, or both. The pasta is made in our kitchen, and the bar starts with a Negroni.
Seated
Three courses down the middle of the table, served family‑style.
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Standing, then seated
Shared Franco, plus a chef’s‑choice trio of canapés as guests arrive.
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“We’ve had glowing reports from the whole team — thank you again for having us.”
Giana, corporate function
01 · Menu & prices
Everything on one card: the menus, the drinks, the minimum spend and the small print. Generous, Italian, and made to share.
02 · The night
Not a function room, and not function staff: a team with hospitality in their bones. The night your team still talks about in March.
The night
how it runs, across both floors
03 · The rooms
Or take both levels, exclusively yours, for up to 240: canapés in the bar, dinner upstairs, back to the bar.
Two floors, one building
Level 1
Rose-red plaster from wall to ceiling, curved blue velvet booths and a canopy of dried flowers, lit low and warm.
Level 2
A curved wall of floor-to-ceiling windows behind a patterned screen, plants along the glass, copper lamps overhead and the open kitchen in full view.
04 · How it works
One person looks after you, from your first email to the last drink.
Send your date and numbers. Within one business day we send a proposal and the events pack. A deposit from $500 holds the date, and comes off your drinks bill.
Shared menus from $80pp (grazing table from $40pp), drinks on consumption, no venue hire fee. Friday and Saturday carry a minimum spend, from $4,000 for the bar; midweek, usually none. We keep you posted on the spend on the night, so the invoice holds no surprises.
Yes. Lunch or dinner, on either level. Tell us the day and the time in your enquiry.
Your host, microphones for speeches, a projector and screen, and room for a band or a DJ. Last drinks 11:30pm.
Every one. Custom food and drink menus on request; final numbers and dietaries five days before.
Upstairs at 166 Cashel Street, The Crossing, in the CBD. Lift near H&M and KOOKAÏ; the carpark is right there. Closed 24 December to 5 January.
05 · Enquire
December Fridays go first. Send your date and your numbers. Jenna or Ana‑Maria replies within one business day with availability, a proposal and the events pack. Your date is pencilled in while you decide, and the deposit comes off your drinks bill.
Pick your December night
Choose a date and the dog will sit on it. Then send it below and we pencil it in.
Fri & Sat, minimum spend appliesClosed 24 December to 5 January
Everyone’s been raving about the venue, the hospitality and the service.Hayley, company event
The food was absolutely divine, great cocktails to set the tone.Vicki, corporate dinner
Everyone keeps saying how amazing the food was.Nicola, company dinner
No venue hire fee · Deposit comes off your bill · Reply within one business day
Prefer to talk? Call 021 221 1307 or email events@barfranco.nz
Book by 20 November and your name goes on the Robbie tickets and a $200 Crossing gift card. Terms