Word: bistro
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When the fog comes in, the men in the bistro at the foot of the hill open the door wide so that any evening stragglers can see the wide swathe of light cast onto the fog. The men already there order another Pernod and wait. Their wives will not close the shutters or put out dinner until the fog breaks. The priest in the chapel rings the angelus against the swing of the tide, a tinny sound amid the din. He waits for the fog to lift so the people in the town, carrying their flashlights through the streets...
...deux chevaux coughed and stalled, coughed and stalled all the way down the hill. I stopped at the bistro. Maybe he had seen the light and gone in to see his friends from the town. I hoped he was there where it was bright and warm. Jean-Luc answered first when I called into the smoky room for Francois. "He's not here, but I saw him head for the seawall about half an hour ago. Give me the keys, I'll help you look...
...powers of candlelight have long been part of Everywoman's arsenal. Beauty or not, she always looks loveliest in the warm glow thrown off by wax tapers gleaming over a banquet table or on a banquette in a quiet bistro. Largely because of this candelabracadabra, candles continued to sell at a respectable pace long after the rural-electrification program brought light bulbs into the most remote corners of the U.S. In recent months, however, Americans have gone on a candle-buying spree, spurred on by necessity, a changing national mood and by new candle shops stocked with imaginatively shaped...
...most recent years, trying to find a good play at a Paris theater has been like trying to find a good bowl of soup at a Paris bistro. The great tradition turns out to be little more than a memory tasted through grease and garlic. The current season began like that...
...only treated Stan Sanders to some Hollywood glamour and an expensive meal last week but also offered to open an office in Watts that would enable him to provide free legal services to the poor. The pitch proved persuasive. A little more than an hour after leaving The Bistro, Sanders gave in and agreed to go to work for the firm...