Word: bistro
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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More upscale in taste and budget? Do you search for designer knockoffs and value the Liz Claiborne-Cable Car look? Do a $10 lunch and a $14 dinner (including a glass of wine) sound good as long as you get trendy food in a slick grill-bistro setting? Then hope that within the next two or three years yours is one of the ten or twelve cities that will get the Daily Grill, created by the management that owns the pricey Grill in Beverly Hills...
...American Printemps, in an old commercial area of Denver, is a far cry from the 19th century belle epoque building that houses the Printemps on the Boulevard Haussmann in Paris. But the U.S. owners have tried to recreate a bit of French style: the Denver store features a bistro and a sweeping operatic staircase backlit by a skylight. The merchandise is more eclectic: such famous French names as Claude Montana and Hermes are well represented, but so are Perry Ellis, Anne Klein and other American labels...
When Beverly Hills banned smoking in eating places last April, restaurateurs warned that the ruling would drive away their customers. They were not just blowing smoke. Since the ban went into effect, some bistro owners have lost up to 30% of their customers to restaurants in nearby towns that permit them to puff away at will. But there was a loophole in the smoke ring: bars and cocktail lounges were exempt from the law. Soon many of Beverly Hills' toniest dining spots were sporting makeshift signs proclaiming that they too were "bars." Customers who objected to the flouting...
...playing in the streets of Lhasa; the British rulers faithfully follow the trials of everyday drudges on the local soap opera Crossroads. The screen that separates us from royals is, after all, a two-way illusion. When the Queen Mother decided once to drop in on a typical French bistro to dine in the company of ordinary folk, her security-conscious host promptly filled the place with policemen dressed up to look like ordinary folk...
...fumes Irene Robbins, a bookkeeper for the Mandarin, a Chinese restaurant one block from Rodeo Drive. "The smog is ten times worse than anything you're going to breathe sitting through dinner with a smoker," insists Ronnie Fondell, puffing away at an outdoor table at Caffe Roma, a lively bistro where sleek Europeans come to meet and gawk. "Why not take cars off the street, booze off the bar and prohibit anything else anyone ever said was bad for you," grumbles a patron at the Grill, popular with the business-lunch crowd...