Word: bistro
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...evening for a Hemingway-style movable feast at Harborplace. It started with a drink and half a dozen North Carolina oysters at Shuckers Raw Bar in the Light Street Pavilion, followed by soft-shell crab par-migiano at the Big Cheese. Dinner was at the Taverna Athena, a Greek bistro in the Pratt Street Pavilion. Afterward came coffee and dessert at Tandoor and a nightcap at the Phillips Harborplace restaurant, where a banjo band plays until 11 p.m. "I never get tired of Harborplace," Rouse sighs. "There's always something to do and see." Gazing across the harbor...
...continued to Philadelphia--home of Pat's cheese steaks and other culinary favorites--in hopes of securing what they needed from the Penn radio station, WXPN. When they arrived in the City of Brotherly Love and managed to seek out Penn Sports information Director Herb Hartnett in a local bistro, they learned that the nice folks at WHRB had sent the equipment down by plane, and it was waiting at the airport. WHRB was able to broadcast as scheduled. All's well that ends well--for the radio station anyway. The hoopsters, on the other hand, probably wished nobody...
...newspapers tend to be sycophantic or ingenuous or both. Not Mimi Sheraton, the gustatory Boadicea of the New York Times. Her knowledge of food is almost as encyclopedic as the Larousse Gastronomique's, her judgments as potent as the Guide Michelin's. When La Sheraton damns a bistro, its owners have been known to look around for a safe job in, say, the bond market...