<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by RichardInSF:
...as defined by Michelin, a bistro is "where the food takes precedence to the surroundings")!
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Well, I know people here hate the bistro bags, and they aren't that great, but I still imagine that eating the food inside is better than eating the surrounding blue paper bag.
YMMV of course.