PARIS, June 28 — Coronavirus took a terrible toll on an icon of French culture — the corner bistro — but it will survive, says chef and restaurateur Alain Fontaine. “If bistros disappear, it’s life that disappears,” Fontaine told journalists at Le Mesturet, the bistro he has run for 18...
French chef and restaurant owner Alain Fontaine answers interview in his restaurant Le Mesturet. — AFP pic
Think of it as a “people’s parliament”, the 62-year-old said, quoting Honore de Balzac, the prolific chronicler of early 19th-century French society. Unfortunately however, large restaurant chains will snap up many small eateries, Fontaine predicted, telling members of the Paris-based Anglo-American Press Association: “The vultures are already here.”
Eateries like Fontaine’s have been allowed to spread out along sidewalks and even set up tables in parking spaces and outside neighbouring businesses if the owners did not object.
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