A bistro, or bistrot, is a familiar name for a type of small restaurant serving moderately priced simple meals in an unpretentious setting, especially in Paris, France. A bistro may not offer professional service or printed menus, and it will usually specialize in simple classic dishes such as steak au poivre, French onion soup, and coq au vin. Bistro may refer to: Bistro, a type of restaurant 2038 Bistro, an asteroid named after the restaurant The Bistro programming language, a programming language Bistro, a song by Madvillain from his album Madvillainy Bistro (Band), a rock band from the Niagara Region of Ontario, Canada Category: ... Toms Restaurant, a restaurant in New York made familiar by Suzanne Vega and the television sitcom Seinfeld A restaurant is an establishment that serves prepared food and beverages to order, to be consumed on the premises. ... City flag City coat of arms Motto: Fluctuat nec mergitur (Latin: Tossed by the waves, she does not sink) The Eiffel Tower in Paris, as seen from the esplanade du Trocadéro. ... Steak au Poivre is a French dish that consists of a steak, traditionally a strip steak, coated on one side in loosely cracked peppercorns and then cooked. ... A bowl of French onion soup. ... The coq au vin (cock with wine) is a French stew of chicken (theoretically, rooster) cooked with wine. ...

The term is possibly derived from the Russian: бы́стро (IPA: [bɨstrə]) which means 'quickly.' Russian soldiers occupying France after the Napoleonic Wars would frequently demand that French civilians serve their food quickly, shouting the word that evolved into the neologism 'Bistro' at them. This etymology is disputed, however: Cossack soldiers occupied Paris in 1815 but the first recorded use of the word appears in 1884, almost seventy years later, and in 1892 ("bistrot"). Another possible source for the word could be "bistraud", a word in the Poitou dialect which means a "lesser servant." Another possible source for the word is bistouille or bistrouille, a colloquial term from northern area of France, which is a mixture of brandy and coffee; precisely the kind of beverage that could be served at a bistro. Worth noting is that in Russian "bistro", when referring to a restaurant, is an indeclinable loan word from the French. Articles with similar titles include the NATO phonetic alphabet, which has also informally been called the “International Phonetic Alphabet”. For information on how to read IPA transcriptions of English words, see IPA chart for English. ... Combatants Austria[1] Portugal Prussia[1] Russia[2] Sicily  Spain[3]  Sweden United Kingdom[4] French Empire Holland Italy Naples [5] Duchy of Warsaw Bavaria[6] Saxony[7] Denmark-Norway [8] Commanders Archduke Charles Prince Schwarzenberg Karl Mack von Leiberich Gebhard von Blücher Duke of Brunswick â€  Prince of Hohenlohe... A neologism (Greek νεολογισμός [neologismos], from νέος [neos] new + λόγος [logos] word, speech, discourse + suffix -ισμός [-ismos] -ism) is a word, term, or phrase which has been recently created (coined) — often to apply to new concepts, to synthesize pre-existing concepts, or to make older terminology sound more contemporary. ... Not to be confused with Entomology, the scientific study of insects. ... Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks to Sultan Mehmed IV of Ottoman Empire. ... April 5-12: Mount Tambora explodes, changing climate. ... Year 1884 (MDCCCLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Sunday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... 1892 (MDCCCXCII) was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... Coat of arms of Richard, Earl of Cornwall, Plantagenet claimant to the county of Poitou, now favored as the coat of arms of Poitou by people in Poitou Poitou was a province of France whose capital city was Poitiers. ... A colloquialism is an informal expression, that is, an expression not used in formal speech or writing. ... A bottle of calvados Pays DAuge Brandy (short for brandywine, from Dutch brandewijn—burnt wine[1]) is a general term for distilled wine, usually 40–60% ethyl alcohol by volume. ... A cup of coffee. ... The word drink is primarily a verb, meaning to ingest liquids, see Drinking. ...

Modern Use

The term also means bastard in central Kentucky and other near-by areas. As in: "You are such a bistro, how could you forget my birthday?" ^{[citation needed]}

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