Restaurant 'Le Dirose' - Serrières

Good local food and lots of it! Would recommend a great local experience. We sat outside and had a pleasant evening.

We came at the end of noon, it was full. The food wasn't good, but it was delicious and a lot of it. Local and fresh food. We chose Menu du Jour. The starter was presented in a big dish, it was a pig...Terrine, we could eat as much as we liked. It was served rustically with Hunks of French bread and Gherkins. Jummy! The main course was part of pork with delicious potatoes and Courgette Gratin. The powder was a tart that was good. It is a beautiful place to go especially when you are walking or cycling around. Go empty, you'll roll out. It was quite reasonable less than 50 euros with wine.

Very nice restaurant for lunch. We had 'menu du jour ', which was really a great serving of a kind of beef bourguignon with olives and good quality. Local wine.

First of all, very friendly staff, friendly personal touch with the chef who proudly serves you his best dishes of all time, such as the Burgundy Rabbit (delicious), the elaborate curls with local charcuterie and not to forget the extensive cheese plate of...you can use yourself!!!! I can't imagine another place to finish your day! Good for the cook and his staff.

Every year, my wife and I rent a gîte between Cluny and Macon and on the first Sunday morning we call into one of the 'caves ' of the Terres Secrètes wine producers in Prissé or La Roche-Vineuse. On this occasion, as we paid for our...selection of wines we picked up a pamphlet on a recently introduced scheme called 'Les Tables de Pays ' which promotes regional cuisine and lists participating restaurants. Some of the restaurants we knew already but the find of the year was the Dirose in the small village of Serrières on the road from Pierreclos to the Roche de Solutré. We arrived shortly after midday to find outside that almost all the parking spaces were filled with commercial and agricultural vehicles and already the tables inside were being filled up. A charming young girl came over with her notebook and informed us that they did not have a printed menu at midday but that she would explain what the choices were. We selected our dishes and ordered just the one glass of Serrière red and a bottle of Badoit which we sipped as we watched the other customers, none of which was a tourist, tucking into extraordinary inviting plates of food. Would we get the same? The first course arrived. For my wife a platter of melon. For me, a whole home-made terrine with a knife nonchalantly stuck into it accompanied by jar of gherkins all left on the table for me to serve myself as much as I wanted. The main course was a filet of pork, sliced up into a dozen thick medallions to share between us, accompanied by the most delicious fried rice and vegetable medley that we had ever tasted. We devoured the lot. Next came the cheese course, and once again, the platter of five or six cheeses was left on the table for us to help ourselves. Finally for desert we opted for the crème caramel and the tarte aux pommes, both homemade and substantial in size. Serrière is a working village and the restaurant terrace is ordinary looking with basic furnishings and furniture but the staff are charming and very welcoming. You hang on to your cutlery for the whole meal but you do get clean plates! Inside the toilets and washing facilities are very clean. The cost of this four course meal was just 13 euros 50 each plus a little extra for the drinks. It was a little like stepping back into the old traditional restaurants of yesteryear. When we return to Burgundy next year, we shall without question return to the Dirose to enjoy once again this wonderful experience of simple but unforgettable French country cooking.