bistro

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During happy hour, the bistro is also offering discount drinks and two-for-one appetizers and pizza, which have been very popular, said Sarah John, the restaurant's development coordinator.

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  1. noun A small bar, tavern, or nightclub.
  2. noun A small, informal restaurant serving wine.

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  • Every ground floor is a bistro, and every house a hotel used by vagrants, permanent casual labourers, displaced persons, and prostitutes. —  Maigret and the Hundred Gibbets - 04—Simenon, Georges
  • This bistro was on the street level and, Brenda had chanced to notice, probably had tables from which it was possible to observe, through plate glass windows, the lobby of the building. —  158 - Five Fathoms Dead
  • The latter walked out of the house and made for the nearest bistro, the first along the Boulevard des Batignolles, where he had taken refuge once already. —  Maigret's Failure -#49- by Georges Simenon
  • During happy hour, the bistro is also offering discount drinks and two-for-one appetizers and pizza, which have been very popular, said Sarah John, the restaurant's development coordinator. —  The Vail Trail - All Sections
  • Among the many restaurants on the strip, Meals by Genet stands out as an Ethiopian bistro, which is to say, a homey, soft-lit dining room that looks at least as French as it does African. —  LA Weekly | Complete Issue
 

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  1. French bistro or bistrot, tavern owner, tavern.
 

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