Word: bistro
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...with good food. Perino's, worth a Michelin star, is for tourists. La Scala, which serves mediocre Italian food, and Chasen's, where steak is cooked under white-hot rock salt, used to be No. 1 and No. 2. Now everyone is crowding into The Bistro-perhaps because nearly everyone is a stockholder: Laurence Harvey, Tony Curtis, George Axelrod, Otto Preminger, Robert Stack, Jack Lemmon, Jack Benny, Dean Martin, Merle Oberon, Sam Spiegel...
Joan Cohn calls him "the boy prince." As a symbol of devotion, she once gave him a lavender Rolls-Royce with his initials on it. Harvey is among the financial backers of a small restaurant in Beverly Hills called The Bistro, and together they hold court there. Harvey likes to sit facing the walls-they are all made of mirrors. Thus his eyes, narrow as oriental slits, can see everybody who's there, including himself, and he can smooth his light brown hair without going into Joan's purse for a compact...
...tales about how to tell a poison mushroom (one wrong example: if it turns a piece of silver black), newspapers warned amateur mycologists to take their harvests to experts for inspection. The appeals for caution had their echo in distant Washington, where Eugene Batisse, French-born chef at Le Bistro, the U.S. capital's popular restaurant and New Frontier hangout, took his family on a tragic mushroom-picking expedition in Rock Creek Park, near their suburban Chevy Chase home. Afterward, Mme. Batisse fried the crop in oil and garlic and served it up at lunch for her husband...
Pierre Salinger and Ted Sorensen, Le Bistro Manager Camille Richaudeau last week hastened to emphasize that his place serves only safe, cultivated mushrooms bought from commercial sources. Does Chef Batisse ever bring in his own mushroom harvests for the restaurant's kitchen? "No, no, no-never...
...station, instead of being decorated for valor, Lemmon is fired: the chief inspector had been caught in the raid. Creeping sheepishly back to Les Halles, Jack gets an I-told-you-so from Moustache (Lou Jacobi), a philosophical bistro keeper: "To be overly honest in a dishonest world is like plucking a chicken against the wind: you'll end up with a mouthful of feathers...