Sentence examples for a bistro of from inspiring English sources

Last week, three gunmen robbed diners who were still finishing their meals at Patois, a bistro of post-Katrina vintage in an affluent stretch of Uptown.

JOE BEEF On my next visit to Montreal, I will put back another couple of dozen oysters at Joe Beef (2491 Rue Notre-Dame Ouest; 514-935-6504; www.joebeef.ca), a bistro of sorts that opened in the Petit-Bourgogne neighborhood in 2006.

We had dinner at a restaurant in a bistro on the waterfront of Trouville.

One evening in September, McEwan met me at L'Étoile, a bistro on Charlotte Street, just south of Fitzroy Square.

– Reader in Paris, Paris Restroom emergencies are a good chance to pop into a bistro for a glass of wine.

They renamed the restaurant Fromagerie, offering a bistro menu of cheese fondues, cheese crepes, a cheese board and other dishes built around the cheese theme.

If you were looking for a neighborhood bistro of the sort where you might linger over dinner for a while, happily talking with friends while picking at fries and finishing a bottle of wine, the corner would rank low on a list of possible locations.

"I think we're all trying to bring reality back to dining," said James Porter, a celebrated chef in Scottsdale who last spring shuttered his large and expensive restaurant, Tapino Kitchen & Wine Bar, in favor of a French bistro of his own, Petite Maison.

It was an old-fashioned bistro of a kind I thought had vanished, complete with sexy ­barmaid cutting a swathe through the men who came and went for a drink, for lunch, for a chat.

IS George Martin in Southampton a steakhouse, a bistro, a hybrid of the two or something else?

Perhaps the description of the new cafe as a "bistro" is an indicator of what is to come.