What's the difference between bistro and restaurant?

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.

Restaurant


Definition:

  • (n.) An eating house.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He also plans to build a processing facility where tourists can gain firsthand experience of the fisheries industry, and to open a restaurant.
  • (2) 133 Hatfield Street, +27 21 462 1430, nineflowers.com The Fritz Hotel Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Fritz is a charming, slightly-faded retreat in a quiet residential street – an oasis of calm yet still in the heart of the city, with the bars and restaurants of Kloof Street five minutes’ walk away.
  • (3) This month, Ucas will bring out an interactive map of Gaza , with live updates, highlighting sports events and restaurants, as well as areas of historical interest.
  • (4) Eventually, when the noise died down, the pair made a dash for it, taking refuge in a nearby restaurant for the rest of the night.
  • (5) Work over the past 17 years has consistently failed to reveal any objective sign accompanying the transient sensations that some individuals experience after the experimental ingestion of monosodium glutamate and it is questionable whether the term 'Chinese Restaurant Syndrome' has any validity.
  • (6) "There were around 50 attackers, heavily armed in three vehicles, and they were flying the Shebab flag," Maisori added, speaking from the town, where several buildings including hotels, restaurants, banks and government offices were razed to the ground.
  • (7) Mbugua said fewer people were coming to the bars and restaurants at night.
  • (8) On Wednesday night the owner of the restaurant that held the fundraiser said the offending menu had not been displayed publicly.
  • (9) As we walk away from the restaurant, he looks up an interview (with himself) on his iPhone and announces his musical credentials: "Yup, two Radiohead songs in both 'Clueless' and 'Romeo and Juliet', back when all anybody knew was 'Creep'.
  • (10) Sensitivity to sulfites was suspected based on exacerbation after restaurant meals and metaproterenol 5% inhalant solution.
  • (11) His companions eventually apologised to me, but only after apologising to my boyfriend, and only after being kicked out by restaurant staff who reinforced that the behaviour was unacceptable.
  • (12) It is there that Clar runs a Caribbean restaurant and their children receive the best schooling money can buy.
  • (13) The restaurant was already castigated by Channel Four News for serving £4 bowls of cereal in a borough in which thousands of poor families can’t afford to feed their children.
  • (14) And Doordash, which uses Starship Technologies miniature self-driving vehicles, is replacing restaurant delivery people.
  • (15) In 1972, he launched a more ambitious plan by buying Hintlesham Hall, a decrepit grade-11 listed building in Suffolk, converting it into a home and three restaurants and taking over the Hintlesham festival held there.
  • (16) A single-subject design was applied to study increase in functional use of language by a 14-yr.-old Down Syndrome girl from a mean length of utterance of 1.3 words to 4.4 in a classroom, 5.1 in the restaurant, and 4.7 during transportation.
  • (17) I also earned meals by decorating a wall in a local restaurant.
  • (18) By abusing his power, he was engrossed in irregularities and corruption, had improper relations with several women and was wined and dined at back parlours of deluxe restaurants.
  • (19) Two firefighters died in 2007 battling a restaurant fire in the West Roxbury neighborhood
  • (20) Generalization of treatment effects was assessed in informal community restaurants.

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