We went to Le Tire-Bouchon Rodier for dinner last week.
It’s French tapas-style completely at dinner. They suggest you order 3-4 dishes per person.
The menu is posted at the front, and I believe there was a hard-to-read chalkboard somewhere inside, but they point you to a QR code on your table to grab the menu on your phone:
If you ordered it, they bring bread and plop down an enormous butter dish that IIRC even makes the ones at CLJ and L’Avant Comptoir seem puny in comparison. It is so incongruous for this restaurant that I have to assume it is a French joke of some sort.
The pissaladiere, with fried onion “rings” on top, and the spinach dish were particularly excellent.
The green beans and girolles dishes were very good.
The tuna tartare was fine but nothing special.
The shrimp arancini (no pic) had excellent texture, but was marred by far too strong a shellfish-based stock that overwhelmed the other flavors.
The lemon sorbet we shared for dessert was refreshing, and a bit creamier than those we had in Italy.
I enjoyed my two glasses of white burgundy (12E each). The food was very reasonably priced.
There is quite a lot on the menu for vegetarians and pescatarians. We enjoyed eating lighter that night than we have on most other days on our trip.
If the pissaladiere is on the menu, I would return just for that. Otherwise, we found Le Tire-Bouchon Rodier nice and well-priced, but while we are likely to return, it doesn’t fall into the “must” category that, say, a Brion does.
