The upstairs dining room in late sun, bentwood chairs and copper pendants
One of the team laughing beside a table set with flowers and candles

(upstairs) · The Crossing · 166 Cashel St · Ōtautahi

Private dining & birthdays

A long table, your people, a feast that keeps coming.

Check your dateone business dayOr call021 221 1307

01 · Why Franco

A dinner party, without the dishes.

“Everyone keeps saying how amazing the food was.”

Nicola, company dinner

At a glance

  • Guests10 to 240
  • The Negroni Bar80 seated · 120 standing
  • The Restaurant90 seated · 120 standing
  • Minimum spend, Fri & Satfrom 4,000
  • Venue hire feenone
Bentwood chairs and tables in the Restaurant

02 · The night

We host. You stay.

A long table at the far end of the Restaurant
01 · Level 2a long table at the far end of the Restaurant
The open kitchen upstairs
02 · The kitchenpasta rolled in view
Spritzes, antipasti and the printed menus on the marble table
03 · Level 1a Negroni to finish, in the bar

03 · Food & drink

Shared Italian, down the middle

Eventi

The event menus

Canapés from 9 · shared menus from 80pp · plus GST

Open the event menus

04 · Enquire

Tell us the occasion.

Jenna or Ana-Maria replies within one business day.

Birthdays at Franco

Cent’anni

A hundred years, the Italian birthday toast.

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It’s currently…

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in Ōtautahi

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