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French bistros in Melbourne

What a French bistro menu carries and charges, from the 35 menus of this kind we hold in Melbourne. Its cuisine, for a wider comparison: Modern Australian, bistros and wine bars.

Menu length

35 dishes

the median; the middle 80% list 22 to 213

Sections

6

on the median menu

The typical dish

$22

the median of each menu’s median price, across 34 menus

How long the menus are

Middle half of 35 menus: 25 to 75Median 35Scale stretched at the low end

What most of them carry

Share of menus listing itMedian price

  • Creme brulee$17.5029%, 10 menus. Middle half $17 to $18, across 9 menus pricing it
  • Pommes frites$13.9529%, 10 menus. Middle half $12 to $14, across 10 menus pricing it
  • French onion soup$18.7523%, 8 menus. Middle half $17 to $20, across 8 menus pricing it

A price is shown once at least 5 of these menus price the dish.

The sections they use

  • Dessert37%
  • Sides34%
  • Desserts23%
  • Entree23%
  • Entrees23%
  • Menu23%

Section names as menus print them, folded together when they differ only in case or punctuation.

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How we worked this out

We read menus from venues’ own websites, as they publish them, between 13 and 16 October 2026. Each menu counts once, prices as printed. A chain’s branches that serve the same menu count as one menu. We never name a venue: every figure here is a median, a range or a share, with the number of menus it rests on.

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