Sage restaurant's Taste and Test series is on again during July. Photo: Jil Hogan

Consider yourself a bit of a food connoisseur? Sage Restaurant wants your help creating its new menu. Its Taste and Test series is back on again, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday nights until July 28. Dinner is five surprise dishes for $75 and the table is covered in paper so you can leave a score and your thoughts on each dish. The dishes will be changed up and tweaked over the weeks, with the final winning dishes forming the new menu.

Former Sage owners Michael and Peter Harrington have recently taken back control over the restaurant and are trying to push the boundaries even more this time around with a series of creative and interactive dishes.

Taste and Test often fills up, so bookings are recommended on 6249 6050 or at sagerestaurant.net.au.

SO FRENCHY 

The Realm Precinct is donning the red, white and blue during July for a series of French wine, food and sport festivities.

French restaurant Buvette will host a truffle dinner on Bastille Day, July 14, with a set menu that includes duck liver parfait on truffle brioche, gruyere and truffle souffle, wagyu beef bourguignon with truffle jus, and truffled creme brulee with vanilla truffle ice cream, with all truffles sourced from The Truffle Farm at Mount Majura. The dinner is $75 per head with bookings on 6163 1818.

Buvette will also feature a truffle menu for the rest of July. And next door, Ostani also has a special French beverage menu and will be screening the action from the Tour de France. And if the cycling inspires you, they are also giving away a Trek road bike valued at more than $3000.

WINE MATCHING 

Lerida Estate is holding another wine dinner on July 21 at Pomegranate in Kingston. The four-course dinner will be matched with a series of Lerida Estate wines, and will be the first chance to taste the 2015 Shiraz Viognier, which is yet to be released.

There will also be a mystery wine tasting in the middle of the event, with the person who is able to correctly identify the drop winning a bottle of Lerida Estate's 2014 "Josephine" Pinot Noir.

The event is $120 per head with bookings on 6295 6640. You can see the full menu at leridaestate.com.au.

MYSTERY DINNER

The ACT Wine Industry Network is holding a dinner on Saturday, July 23 and participants won't be told where until the day.

Dinner is five courses with six matching wines, with a menu including pappardelle with duck ragu and sliced orange, beef tagliata with arugula mint pesto and vanilla bean pannacotta with chilli and orange sauce.

Dinner is $99.99 per person with bookings on 6231 6997.