What's the difference between bistro and cafe?

Bistro


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It would be like walking into a Parisian bistro and saying admiringly: "You people speak French!").
  • (2) Open Mon-Sat 11am-midnight; Sun 12.30pm-11pm Spoon Cafe Bistro Spoon Cafe Bistro This place used to be known as Nicolson's Cafe or "one of the places where a single mum called Joanne sat in a corner to write some book about a boy wizard".
  • (3) The older generation regard the set as brash youngsters scheming their way to the top in what Conway called the "bistros" of Notting Hill.
  • (4) This romantic – if slightly cramped – bistro in Lexington Street is hard to get into as it effectively acts as a dining room for the great and not so good of Soho's literary establishment, who often frequent the Academy Club upstairs.
  • (5) When they do eat out it tends to be Thai food, her favourite or at Charlotte's Bistro, a more informal place on the other side of the high street.
  • (6) In Le Bistro cafe in the converted waiting room of Rüschlikon station, from where the village's rich residents can be whisked to downtown Zurich in 15 minutes, none of the clientele whiling away the afternoon have met Glasenberg but all are happy to chat about his impact on the community.
  • (7) One of the chefs at Mirazur told me he likes to eat at Le Petit Port (+33 4 93 35 82 62, 4 rue du Jonquier, about £60pp) on his days off: it's a more upmarket (read pricey) bistro with local specialities.
  • (8) And so I set off to do a little detective work of my own, to discover whether Maigret’s Paris, full of squalid, storied hotels with communal bathrooms, apartment buildings with nosy concierges and, most importantly, characterful regional bistros and hyper-provincial bars, could still be found.
  • (9) He and I once met for lunch in a Holland Park bistro for the sole purpose of continuing an argument, begun in print, over the authenticity of Barry White's music.
  • (10) This particular bistro is my regular and favourite: unpretentious, unreconstructed and unimpressed by the uniform, airport-like decor favoured by others on the Left Bank.
  • (11) I stay at what was the bank, and eat in a bistro, watching a strange assortment of art students, fishermen and farmers come and go.
  • (12) Further on there is another pairing of holly and ivy, and here a flock of long-tailed tits is enjoying Bistro Ivy.
  • (13) The Reeperbahn is its infamous party and red light district, but just a few streets away is a rich bistro and street food scene as well as cool cafes, bars and clubs.
  • (14) That poutine was actually concocted in a Belgian bistro?
  • (15) Open Mon-Fri 8pm-4am (Sat 5am) Bluebird Tiny Bluebird is a gay-friendly bar-cum-bistro hidden up an alley near Syntagma Square.
  • (16) But keep an eye out for the sister bars La Chunga (near Plaza de Armas bus station) and Torres y Garcia , and Tata Pila (which serves Andalucían market produce with a French bistro-fusion twist), too.
  • (17) A continental breakfast is delivered in the morning and the 40-acre estate has its own shop and waterside bistro.
  • (18) An old bar, Le Comptoir Dugommier is a workaday and yet cosmopolitan bistro.
  • (19) Bangkok’s Lumpini Park is walking distance from the Italian bistro where Dream works as the head waitress.
  • (20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Donald Trump is temperamentally unfit for presidency, says Clinton – video The only place where she did not launch many attacks was Santa Barbara, in the crowded little bistro where she was asked tough questions, such as “what does a proactive women’s reproductive health agenda look like?” and “what is your position on standardized testing?” and a query about her thoughts on childcare and leave for working parents.

Cafe


Definition:

  • (n.) A coffeehouse; a restaurant; also, a room in a hotel or restaurant where coffee and liquors are served.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In the bars of Antwerp and the cafes of Bruges, the talk is less of Christmas markets and hot chocolate than of the rising cost of financing a national debt which stands at 100% of annual national income.
  • (2) I ask a friend to have a stab at, “down at cafe that does us butties”, and he said: “Something to do with his ass?” “Whose arse?” He looked panicked.
  • (3) At the bottom is a tiny harbour where cafe Itxas Etxea – bare brick walls and wraparound glass windows – is serving txakoli, the local white wine.
  • (4) The last time I saw Ruqayah was in the summer of 2014, in a chain cafe in Cairo’s largest shopping mall.
  • (5) He encountered one couple en route to the MSPs’ meeting, who said “Glad you could visit, Jeremy,” and “Well done!” And outside a nearby cafe, a man cradling his baby daughter in the sunshine shouted out to him: “Thanks for bringing humanity back to politics.
  • (6) The charity Bite the Ballot , which persuaded hundreds of thousands to register before the last general election, is to set up “democracy cafes” in Starbucks branches, laying on experts to explain how to register and vote, and what the referendum is all about (Bite the Ballot does not take sides but merely encourages participation).
  • (7) In London, Bella set up Billy's Cafe, named after her brother, in which autistic people could work.
  • (8) San Francisco Tenderloin map They could potentially gentrify this gritty, 50-block swath of downtown into condos, lofts, hipster bars, organic cafes and yoga studios, as has happened in other parts of San Francisco and the Bay area.
  • (9) This is what inspired Jon Underwood to create the non-profit death cafe in 2011, based on the Swiss Cafe Mortel movement.
  • (10) The Hard Rock Cafe has long been famous for its queue, but that was so odd it was a tourist attraction, something people pointed and laughed at.
  • (11) But the co-founder of London's Prufrock cafe says that producing great espresso is "no more complicated than making bread".
  • (12) A case of asymptomatic and previously undiagnosed neurofibromatosis which presented with clitoral enlargement, "cafe-au-lait" spots, and pelvic masses is described.
  • (13) In Skipton, 20-year-old Alice Keirle had taken a 90-minute detour to avoid road closures and get to her waitressing job at the Boathouse Cafe.
  • (14) Kerstine Appunn and her boyfriend took three and a half months to land a spacious two-bedroomed flat in Prenzlauer Berg, one of Berlin’s pricier inner-city districts, where organic cafes populate the pretty, tree-lined streets.
  • (15) As candidates and supporters packed out cafes and community centres, desperate to shore up to support on caucus eve, life continued as normal for most Iowans on Monday – with many critical of how hopefuls for the Republican presidential nomination have conducted their campaigns.
  • (16) Annette Ramelsberger of the Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper, who has attended every trial day so far, told German broadcaster DLF that she had been struck in particular by how unmoved Zschäpe was by the accounts given by the parents of 21-year-old Halit Yozgat, the owner of an internet cafe who was gunned down in broad daylight in Kassell on 6 April 2006.
  • (17) In a dilapidated cafe in north Baghdad under a TV set blasting patriotic songs in support of Iraq's embattled prime minister, a young man looked grave.
  • (18) Sydney siege inquest: hostage pleaded with police to storm Lindt cafe urgently Read more They had taken cover after the final group to escape the siege had successfully fled in the early hours of 16 December 2014.
  • (19) An undulating lightweight roof is supported by 211 narrow steel columns, sheltering a glass box holding the cafe and shop, and a chestnut timber-covered box holding the displays.
  • (20) After publishing their work, the two were having a beer on the balcony of a 17th-century cafe overlooking a Brussels park.

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