What's the difference between bistro and pub?

Bistro


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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.

Pub


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  • (1) Brewdog backs down over Lone Wolf pub trademark dispute Read more The fast-growing Scottish brewer, which has burnished its underdog credentials with vocal criticism of how major brewers operate , recently launched a vodka brand called Lone Wolf.
  • (2) At one, in the Gun and Dog pub in Leeds on Tuesday, a witness described how the meeting descended into chaos when one of the rebels smashed a glass and threatened to attack Griffin supporter Mark Collett.
  • (3) "I do think – and hope – the pubs will do well out of the three events this summer.
  • (4) Beer had been brewed at the site continuously since the 16th century, in 1831 becoming the home of brewers Young & Co, which maintained the pub that gave the brewery its name.
  • (5) We continue to offer customers a great range of beer, lager and cider.” Heineken’s bid to raise prices for its products in supermarkets comes just a few months after it put 6p on a pint in pubs , a decision it blamed on the weak pound.
  • (6) "We closed but the protected pub ruling didn't go away."
  • (7) If you work at home and don't talk to strangers in pubs or do sport or belong to associations, and don't have school-age children, it is very hard to meet new people.
  • (8) The peak closure period was between January and June 2009 when 52 pubs ceased trading every week, and there are now 54,490 pubs left in the country.
  • (9) On a dreich November evening in Gourock, a red-coated mongrel is wandering between the seats in a room above a pub, pausing to sniff handbags for hidden treats.
  • (10) Alisdair Aird and Fiona Stapley, the joint editors of the guide, said in their foreword: “Although around 28 pubs are still closing every week, this is about half the number that were closing a couple of years ago, which is good news all round.
  • (11) In the UK, alcohol consumption has shifted substantially from moderate strength beer sold in pubs to strong lager, cider, wine and spirits sold by supermarkets for drinking at home.
  • (12) Only a few stragglers outside O'Byron's pub refused to believe this was happening on Good Friday.
  • (13) Another pint of Guinness That evening we set out again, this time to O'Donoghue's in Fanore, a blue-painted stone pub set on the thin shelf of land between the sea and the great limestone mountain that is called the Burren.
  • (14) Camra said pubs support more than a million jobs and each contributes an average of £80,000 to its local economy each year.
  • (15) "It is clear that the law gives us the right to prevent the unauthorised use of our copyrights in pubs and clubs when they are communicated to the public without our authority," says text in the ad.
  • (16) "We'll be watching them like hawks," said Jim Winkworth, a farmer and pub landlord, as he watched work starting on a bend in the Parrett between Burrowbridge and Moorland, two of the villages worst affected by the winter flooding.
  • (17) We were only in our third year of running the bar when we were awarded pub of the year back in November.
  • (18) The Butcher's Arms pub in Herne village, Kent, was saved by community investment.
  • (19) Back on the doorstep is The Pilot , a music-themed pub where you can eat, too.
  • (20) In London there are generally four types of rock show: the billions of pub gigs where 20 of the band's mates try to convince you there's still a future in grindie; the arena and stadium blowouts where it's customary to express one's appreciation of the band by dousing one's peers in airborne urine; the east London artronica happenings where everyone's only watching everyone else; and the gigs in Hyde Park you can't hear.

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