The Best French Bistros in New York
Everybody loves a good bistro meal and especially if it is French. It offers cuisine that is tasty and plentiful, and all manner of dishes can be served up in a good bistro.
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How to Keep Your Bistro in Business
Perhaps you currently own a bistro and the business is proving hard to stay above water and bring the profits you had hoped for.
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Top bistros in Berlin – part 2
In our first part of the top bistros in Berlin, we have covered places that do not just offer simple food for their customers but provide exceptional menus. To continue with our coverage, we will be taking a look at some bistros with the best desserts and the freshest ingredients. If you want to know more about the best places in the city, do not stop reading now!
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Top bistros in Berlin – part 1
The top bistros in Germany’s capital Berlin have over thirty Michelin stars (rating system to grade restaurant’s quality) altogether. If you are looking for something to eat when traveling around Berlin, try to look for bistros with Michelin stars because you would not be disappointed.
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How to Design Your Own Bistro Kitchen – Part 3
In our third and concluding part of how to design your own bistro kitchen we take a look at the furniture choices that are open to you. This includes tables, chairs, bar stools and all other items that will fit in to your bistro design. Part two looked at kitchen lighting and accessories and now all that is left is to make a statement with the furniture you select.
Chairs
When you are thinking of bistro chairs your first option is wood, whether with bergere backs and seats, upholstered, or plain wooden slats, wood is the natural choice for authentic bistro furniture. Your choice of seating will really reinforce the Parisian cafe feel you are attempting to replicate. Tables can have steel bases with wooden or marble tops and accompanied by simple wooden chairs. A great effect is to opt for non-matching chairs, perhaps from second hand shops. If you want a truly authentic look then buy a real reproduction of a classic chair such as a bentwood, this will be a feature and a talking point. Why not paint a cheap dining set that is a blatant copy of a bentwood set, replace the top with a contrasting marble top to your paint selection?
Bar Stools
Bar Stools
If you have opted for an island kitchen then bar stools are the perfect answer to your seating dilemma, a bar and a couple of stools give a great bistro look. A good idea if your design is modern bistro is to contrast this with traditional wooden stools but perhaps made to look more antique with paint washes etc. These stools will make a bold statement of design and patterning. A completely different option is to go super industrial, crafted stools made out of tubular and sheet metal to match the stainless-steel items dotted about.
Budget
Have a definite budget calculated before you start to design your kitchen, to achieve that great bistro look may cost in certain areas, but the total overall look may be achieved for less than you may think. Remember the odd item of interest to contrast and bring interest to an otherwise dull space. Think out of the box to maintain your budget but still get a similar effect. One idea if marble tops are out of your budget then use a marble cutting board, decorate it with pepper grinders and quint bottles that contain olive oil. Have a matching marble accessory such as a pestle and mortar elsewhere in the kitchen that combined give a bigger impression. And if stainless steel is out of range, hang up shiny pots and pans, fish kettles and unusual kitchen utensils. Create with your imagination and use antique kitchen items filled with limes or lemons or scented herbs.
Fish kettles
There are many ways to create the bistro-style that you love, remember often this can be achieved with the most unusual of items that people do not expect to see in a kitchen. Save the majority of your budget for the obligatory items that a good kitchen must have, the rest is all left to imagination and clever design.
The New Neo-Bistros of Paris – Part Two
The second part of our adventure to discover the new neo-bistros of Paris takes us to more restaurants who have adopted this new culinary craze that is taking the French capital by storm. The old favorite dining experience of the Parisian bistro has been turned on its head with these establishments turning out very different cuisine than the old typical bistro fayre. We continue our exploration of some of the best new neo-bistros that exist in Paris today with Le Cristal de Sel. (more…)