eggs, sausages and hot roast chicken.

The Oxford Companion to Food comments that the idea of simple inexpensive food served in a French atmosphere has wide appeal, so that by the end of the 20th century the term had "begun to be annexed by more pretentious premises".

Etymology

The etymology is unclear. The Dictionnaire de l'Académie française dates the word from the 19th-century term bistro ("innkeeper")

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