Level 1
The Negroni Bar
Rose-red plaster, velvet booths and fringed lamps, lit low and warm.
Check your date
Bar FrancoCorporate eventsThe Crossing, Christchurch10 to 240 guests
Client dinners, team nights and end‑of‑year parties, hosted. Lunch or dinner.
Check your dateup to 240“The food was absolutely divine, great cocktails to set the tone.”
Vicki, corporate dinner
Why Franco
Cocktails in a rose-plastered Negroni lounge, a long dinner upstairs by a wall of windows, or both in one night, and nobody needs a taxi in between.
Level 1
Rose-red plaster, velvet booths and fringed lamps, lit low and warm.
Check your date
Level 2
A curved wall of windows, copper lamps and the open kitchen in full view.
Check your date
Both levels
Exclusively yours, from the first spritz to the last dance.
Check your date
“The food was absolutely divine, great cocktails to set the tone.”
Vicki, corporate dinner
01 · The night
Microphones, a projector and screen, and nobody needs a taxi in between.
The night
how it runs, across both floors
02 · The spaces
Cocktail-style or seated, on either floor.
Two floors, one building
Level 1
Rose-red plaster from wall to ceiling, fringed lamps, curved blue velvet booths and a canopy of dried flowers.
Level 2
A curved wall of windows, plants along the glass, copper lamps overhead and the open kitchen in full view.
03 · Food & drink
Not function catering: pasta rolled in our open kitchen, seasonal and Italian, built around your group, budget and dietaries.
Drinks on consumption: a bar tab, a cash bar, or both. From 30 guests, a welcome drink so no one queues.
Eventi
for functions on either floor
04 · Good to know
No. Minimum spend on application.
Within one business day, with a proposal and the events pack.
Yes. Lunch or dinner, on either level. Tell us the day and the time in your enquiry.
Microphones, a projector and screen, and room for a band or a DJ.
Vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free and most allergies.
Fridays, Saturdays and December: as early as you can. Midweek: often at short notice.
Yes. From ten guests, with a shared menu.
05 · Enquire
Jenna or Ana‑Maria replies within one business day.
Pick your night
Choose a date and the dog will sit on it. Then send it below and we pencil it in.
Closed 24 December to 5 January
No venue hire fee · Deposit comes off your bill · Reply within one business day
Just a question? Call 021 221 1307 or email events@barfranco.nz