Bistro Chez Roger

Food is ok. Place is ok considering the neiborhood. But the service SUCKED! The basics were not even covered: change glasses in between wines, change plates in between services… Would go back if in the hood otherwise don’t bother to drive there go elsewhere. Oh: limited selection of wine by the glass.

A great overall experience!
I will say the best part of the experience was the food! Everyone really enjoyed what they ordered. I had grilled octopus on a Greek salad to start, which was probably one of the best times I’ve had grilled octopus outside of Greece. For my main I had a gnocchi with sausage and mussels. Not a traditional way to serve gnocchi, but I found it delicious and enjoyed it. The cheese cake with berry sauce on it was good. A little too creamy for my liking, but still good.
The one area they could improve upon is the service. Our server wasn’t overly friendly, which is fine, but his attention to detail wasn’t great.

Having grown up in the neighbourhood I had wanted to drop in to chez Roger for some time.
I finally found an occasion to go and I was very happy with the atmosphere and décor. The servers as pointed out by another Unilocaler are robotic. Shallow smiles as to say «you are not good enough, to garner my attention or you are taking up my time».
Please get over yourselves ladies. There is a fine line between an air of polite poshness and being snooty. Time to find the balance.
The food was very good. I ordered the grilled heart of romaine that came with cherry tomatoes, bacon, toasted slices of baguette, Parmesan cheese, and Caesar dressing. It was aromatic and worth every bite.
The main dish was the mushroom risotto with asparagus. It was very hot, enough to make the server Unilocal in pain due to the heated plate. Then I decided to touch the plate as well. Yeah… it was hot.
The only suggestion is to hold back on the salt. Otherwise, it was very good.
³⁄₅ stars for the food. Loss of a star for being snooty.

Pas mal…
Sortie en groupe avec réservation.
La nourriture était bien.
Serveur un peu guindé, se prenant pour un autre.
Deux couples qui mangeaient à la table voisine et qui se pensaient chez eux. (Des locaux du plateau qui parlaient très fort. Bref, j’ai appris de choses sans le vouloir et ce n’était pas pédagogique.)
Conclusion, un restaurant qui fait l’affaire, mais qui né suscite pas de passion en moi.

J’ai mangé une fois au bistro chez Roger. Ils ont fait une erreur en apportant mon entrée. Ils l’ont réparée en m’apportant une flûte de champagne ce qui fut tres apprécié. Par contre je n’ai pas trouvé le repas à la hauteur du prix et mon plat principal était très voire beaucoup trop salé.

Well… Décor is neat, food is decent, the price is right and I guess ignorant service is part of the deal.
Service is not terrible, but forgotten stuff, cluelessness of our waiter, her fake, robotic smiles and overall slowness and mix-​ups were very annoying.
The real question: can we expect better service at this price? And my answer is: probably not, but…
My advice to the boss: simplify you menu, educate your staff, stop pretending that you’re higher-​end than you really are and everything will feel much smoother for us, your customers.

Yum. Yum. Yum.
Went here on a Saturday night recently with a friend and sat at the bar for dinner (which I love to do). You get a great view of the amazing open kitchen and get to see the chefs prepare everything. So cool.
The food was amazeballs. I had the charcuterie platter with homemade marinates and croutons as a starter. It was delish. The rillettes were amazing and it’s a perfect starter dish for 2, or even for 1.
I then had the beef tartare and was sooooo happy I ordered this. I kept seeing the chef prepare these and couldn’t stop drooling. I asked for very «relevé» and it was soooo good and made to my taste. My friend had the oignon soup which was served in a very unique way (with bouillon on the side)… but don’t stop there if you go for dinner, there seem to be so many incredible dishes (fish and chips looked crispy and delightful and the oyster platters looked yummy).
The wine list was excellent, and as we learned from our friend at the bar, it is changed on a weekly basis. Love that. We took a suggestion from the sommelière at the bar and it was delish.
I strongly recommend this restaurant if you’re in the area of Rosemont or even if you’re not close at all… It’s worth the detour.

I was recommended this place by my cousin who simply adores this restaurant and is a regular so I went to visit and asked where we should go eat, she was very fast at answering Bistro Chez Roger! We walked to the restaurant so I am not sure about parking. We sat at the bar which looks like a dinner enjoying the chef at work. I was very impressed with the décor and lighting, it felt very warm and yet «Branche». If you know me or read my reviews, you already know that I always sit at the bar so I was very excited to find the long diner type bar. We ordered the fish, the shortribs and ribs. I got to taste all 3 meals and they were all very delicious. The fish was flaky and well seasoned, the short ribs couldn’t have been more tender and the ribs were simply falling off the bones.
The service was awesome, our server was very keen and giving us great recommendation. We all know that bad service can ruin the night, it was not the case, it’s was the opposite.
I was very pleased with this recommendation of this place and can’t wait to go back and try more food!