After a fantastic first edition last year, we invite you to join us for a festive start to the annual Franschhoek Bastille Weekend with a Fabulous French Fête at Leopard's Leap.

It is a celebration of French-inspired food, wine and music!

Friday, 10 July 2026

Tickets are R650 per person and include delicious Leopard’s Leap Culinaria Cap Classique on arrival alongside a selection of French canapés. Dinner is a generous buffet of famous French staples like Boeuf Bourguignon, Coq au Vin and Ratatouille with traditional sides. End the meal with a charming tower of macarons for dessert and some swing and sway on the dance floor.

Guests can also treat themselves to Leopard's Leap wines, available at cellar door pricing.

The festivities start at 17:00 and conclude at 22:00. Expect music, fun activities, promotions and giveaways as well as the most delicious French-inspired food and wine!

Guests are encouraged to dress for the occasion - either fashionably or traditionally French. There will be prizes for the best dressed!

Menu:

Starters
“French style canapés”

• Freshly shucked oysters with sauce mignonette / Sable biscuit with “Bayonne” style cured ham, camembert, pickled red onion / Caramelized onion pinwheel, Roquefort mousse and preserved fig

Main Course

• Ratatouille “Dauphinoise” (Layers of courgette, aubergine & peppers cooked in a rich tomato sauce)
• Beef Bourguignon (Classic slow braised beef stew with onions, carrots and red wine)
• Coq au Vin (Chicken braised in red wine with bacon lardons, onions and mushrooms)

Side dishes

• Selection of French breads & cheeses (Baguette, Fougasse & Pain d’Epi, Camembert, Winelands Blue Brie, Boland “Tete de Moine”)
• French mustard dips (Herbed Dijonaisse, French honey mustard)
• Pommes Anna (Thinly sliced potato layered on top of each other baked in butter until golden)

Dessert

• Macaron towers in the colours of the French flag