What's the difference between bistro and tavern?

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.

Tavern


Definition:

  • (n.) A public house where travelers and other transient guests are accomodated with rooms and meals; an inn; a hotel; especially, in modern times, a public house licensed to sell liquor in small quantities.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Three male college seniors were asked to drink beer at their normal rate in a simulated tavern setting.
  • (2) Storing the coins offline, as TradeFortress now recommends, is technologically more complex – and also makes it harder to spend them in the real world (for example, if attempting to buy a beer in Hackney's Pembury Tavern ).
  • (3) Seeing a sign for a bar, I hiked up an iron staircase to the Esquire Tavern (155 East Commerce St), and felt as if I'd stepped on to the set of a Sam Peckinpah film.
  • (4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A New York City police officer calls for help as he kneels near a victim of the Fraunces Tavern bombing.
  • (5) Like his first opera, 1972’s Taverner , this was music composed at white-heat, and in retrospect no composer could have maintained such intense creativity indefinitely.
  • (6) The three other finalists were The Drovers Rest in Carlisle, the Kelham Island Tavern in Sheffield and The Yard of Ale, a micropub in Broadstairs, Kent.
  • (7) Zylberberg, who was on the islands last month with many Argentinian participants in the Falklands marathon, was filmed doing exercises outside the Globe Tavern in the islands' capital, Port Stanley, running past the offices of the Penguin News newspaper and doing step-ups at a British war memorial.
  • (8) "Detroit is a city like no other these days," said McEwan, whose two-year-old mini-tavern rarely has a room free.
  • (9) The bar of my favourite hotel, the Belmont ( belmontdallas.com , stylish rooms from $99), patios at Bryan Street Tavern ( bryanstreettavern.com ) and The Cedars Social ( thecedarssocial.com ) are some of the locations affording great views.
  • (10) Maxwell Davies himself thought that the 50s were his best period, but the general consensus is that beyond the oft-performed expressionist scores, his really great work is Taverner, which has not been seen since its inaugural production.
  • (11) In Fairplay we passed up the grill at McCall’s Park Bar – a rowdy tavern packed with hunters and cowboys – in favour of spaghetti at the Valiton Hotel .
  • (12) At the bottom of Les Molliettes lift, +33 450 342208 bethnalgreengirl La Taverne d'Alsace, Val d'Isère La Taverne d'Alsace, Val d'Isère This restaurant, part of Hotel Kandahar but with a separate entrance, doesn't get much hype but serves gorgeous Alsatian food that's not too stodgy – like choucroute and excellent ham hock.
  • (13) When the pub's operators moved out, the Catford Bridge Tavern became a squat - at least until the group of around 20 residents were evicted last month.
  • (14) Persons going to taverns, lounges, nightclubs and private clubs differ in social characteristics and these attributes are related to the activities and social functions associated with the various types of public drinking establishments.
  • (15) It was predicted and found that the taste-rating task led to more frequent sipping, smaller sip volume and a steeper decline in sipping across the 15 min drinking period than a procedurally similar tavern-evaluation task.
  • (16) This is their first collection and ranges over anarchist community builders, tough river pilots, militant socialist trade unionists, new women, coffee taverns, riots and garden suburbs.
  • (17) From the raucous taverns of the Shire to the dreaming spires of Gondor, there will be palpable relief today.
  • (18) "As I came through Highbury & Islington tube station at lunchtime today, the number of be-kilted Scotsman who were queueing up for photos outside the Famous Cock Tavern with irony intent was surely greater than the most optimistic YES vote," reports Stuey X.
  • (19) Dick Taverne House of Lords • Mr Blair is right to speak up for Britain’s role in the European Union , an organisation which clearly needs a lot of help at the moment, apparently trapped in a northern European mindset of well-intentioned universal principles applied with totalitarian consistency.
  • (20) Close up your counting house on Christmas Eve and watch your clerk slide homewards along the ice slide on Cornhill, before slouching around the corner to take your “melancholy dinner” in the “usual melancholy tavern”.

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