Restaurant Le Pirate — Restaurant in Tunis

It was nice and quiet during lunchtime on a Monday. Decent sized building with ample seating with different feel; sunny outdoor, partial open roof, indoor casual cafeteria feel, indoor cave wall-like romantic feel. The staff were friendly, helpful and spoke some English. The food was delicious and ingredients were fresh. I got a perfectly grilled sea bream - meat was tender and skin slightly charred, with just a hint of spices where its guts were cleared out from. The fresh salad and grilled vegetables were the perfect amount, variety and balance of flavors. The generous side dish of chickpeas, fresh fennel, olives and bread left me satiated at the end. Looking forward...

Food was not too great. Ordered their mix of seafood and mixed meat platters and everything on each platter was poor except the tempura prawns. The lamb chops they gave were so small it can be finished after a single bite. The meatballs and merguez tasted like paper mâche and there were no flavour to it. The calimari was hard and too rubbery, it was overcooked. The simplest item to make was the chips and they messed that up too. They were soggy as if they were microwaved. After telling the chef this, they made a fresh batch which also looked microwaved and were just hot and soggy. Don't recommend. Poor place to eat...

The vibe here is great. Perfect place to enjoy some blues music, beer, and pizza. The staff was also kind.

The pizza is made fresh in a wood oven, and in comparison to other pizza in Tunisia, it’s the best you are going to get here. (My boyfriend is Tunisian, and agrees on this) The ingredients on my vegetarian pizza were plentiful and very fresh! The price/quality ratio here is great.

We finished our meal with some thibarine (date/herbal digestive liquor, which any tourist should try) and some lemon sorbet. The lemon sobert tasted super fresh and creamy! Real lemons, not that artificial...