Where to celebrate Bastille Day July 14:

        We may not be French, but everyone can always celebrate Fraternite, Liberte and Egalite. Plus, the French independence day is apt to come with good food and wine.

        • The City of Montgomery will have a Bastille Day festival Saturday that will celebrate its connection with French sister city Neuilly-Plaisance, a suburb of Paris. Restaurants and caterers will provide food, the French Alliance will sell French wines by the glass and there will be entertainment from a strolling accordionist, an Edith Piaf-style singer, a street artist and bands.

        Some of the restaurants will serve French food, including La Petite France, Le Cezanne and the Melting Pot. Others will have American or international fare, such as Germano's, the Lazy Gourmet, Tandoor and GTC Bakehouse. The street festivities will be in downtown Montgomery from noon-11 p.m.

        • At 7 p.m. Friday in Swaim Park in Montgomery, the French Alliance and French American Trade Council will host a French picnic and pig roast. La Petite France will provide the French side dishes, and Le Cezanne the desserts. French wine will be served, and Alice Porte, who sings a la Piaf, will entertain. Price: $25 per person. Prepaid reservations can be made through the French American Trade Council, 852-6510. The deadline is Tuesday.

        • Chez Nora, despite its French name, is not a French restaurant. But owner Jimmy Gilliece comes from a French family, and for the ninth year the Covington restaurant will be celebrating Bastille Day next Sunday. French classics will be on the menu. Smoked scallop and artichoke heart salad, cremini mushrooms stuffed with escargots and vichyssoise will be on the appetizer list. Entrees will include braised rabbit with rosemary dijon glaze, roast tenderloin of veal with white wine butter sauce, smoked beef medallions bordelaise, grilled tuna with sundried tomato couscous and pan-seared soft shell crab Genevieve. Reservations suggested: (859) 491-8027.

        • Chef Guy Hulin at the Palace at the Cincinnatian, downtown, is French, naturellement, and he has created a Bastille Day menu for his country's independence day. Saturday and next Sunday, you'll find a menu featuring filet de boeuf a la Murat (with truffle and port wine sauce), saumon Robespierre (salmon with wild sorrel), Loup a la Danton (sea bass with braised fennel and thyme) and Agneau des Jacobins (lamb filet in herb walnut crust with sweet and sour ratatouille). Pastry chef Noreen Nagao has devised a dessert called Tour de la Bastille au Chocolat. There will be a glass of complementary champagne with dinner, and the Herb Kirschner Trio will entertain. Reservations: 381-3000.

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