Bistrot Le Charabia — Restaurant in Bordeaux

The place has a great list of natural wines, but other than that unfortunately it wasn’t an unsatisfying experience. Food was mediocre and unfortunately we had an experience where dessert was served without an explanation that the principle ingredient (a sort of strawberry sauce) was coming in a minute, so we ate the dessert thinking it was lacking something. The sauce came, and the waiter didn’t care and still poured the sauce in, despite that we already unknwoledy ate the rest of the ingredients. So from an interesting dessert it became deconstructed mashed strawberries with crème on the side. When we talked about it to the waiter while taking the bill, she just said sorry, said it was the apprentice fault and nothing she can do, because her boss wasn’t there. Very disappointing. For sure we won’t come back there. We shouldn’t have paid for the mistake of...

Very nice meal in this neighborhood bistro, short menu but plenty of options which means that they home cook with fresh ingredients. Been there several times, always delicious! Tasty beef tartare, fish meal with the catch of the day, superb veal dish with purée de pommes de terre, a pork terrine, beef with sautéed potatoes, etc. Fantastic desserts as in a tarte Tatum, chocolate tart, riz au lait with salted caramel, tarte à la rhubarbe, etc. Delicious pommeau de Normandie, pr armagnac, wine by the glass that changes often enough. One of my favorite...

Agressive owner who was very offensive when we complained about the food. One dish was either overcooked, no seasoning on the meat and absolutely too much salt on the vegetables. the other was not cooked at all an impossible to cut with a knife. We lost our appetite and wanted to leave, but we could only receive the bill after a quarrel and after we asked for it very many times. We received no apologies, and no discount! Very...