Word: bistro
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...visions of lingering over cafe au lait at a bistro on the Champs Elysees, for example, bore no resemblance to my actual visit to Paris, a series of lunches spent gobbling Grand Macs and Cokes only minutes before meeting stuffy tour buses. And thus, I had low expectations for my first year at college...
...relationship to the audience, Packer pulls off this one-woman, two-act monologue, completely told from her perspective. We watch Shirley change from a timid, untraveled housewife into a contented and sophisticated isle-dweller. The audience cheers at her awaited sexual self-discovery with Costos, a hip Greek bistro owner. We applaud her decision to make a new life for herself on the island. By the end, the audience completely identifies with Shirley's declaration that she has not run from life but has found...
...dining hall, too, will add a bistro accent to its food, and stay open on weekends...
...each other, and none chart the differences more minutely than the hardy group of a dozen or so restaurateurs who operate establishments in both Los Angeles and New York City. "Menus are different, taste buds are different on the two coasts," observes Adam Tihany, a proprietor of the Italian bistro Remi, which serves in midtown Manhattan and Santa Monica. Almost any other method of expansion would be simpler. But some people bitten by the restaurant bug just cannot resist trying to conquer the two towns...
...foodies. Sometimes their comings and goings provide rich material for gossip. Five days before the start of this year's harvest, Lake County's ambitious Kendall- Jackson Vineyard hired away John Hawley, the chief vintner at Sonoma's Clos du Bois. That was the sneaky equivalent of a chic bistro's signing up a rival's chef two hours before Saturday dinnertime. (Hawley's successor at Clos du Bois, as it happens, is another promising distaff vintner, Margaret Davenport...