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By Francois Thomazeau, Sylvain Ageorges (Photographs by), Anna Moschovakis (Translated by)

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About the Author

Francois Thomazeau is a sports writer, an author of detective novels, and an editor-three professions requiring inspiration and perspiration (and time spent in bistros). Sylvain Ageorges is a photographer specializing in Paris. He has photographed two previous guidebooks for The Little Bookroom, The Authentic Bistros of Paris and The Brasseries of Paris.

Reviews

"No one really knows how the bistro got its name, but the writer Francois Thomazeau and the photographer Sylvain Ageorges know exactly what to look for when they walk into one. In "The Authentic Bistros of Paris," they showcase 50 bistros in all 20 arrondissements. Each gets an atmospheric photograph or two and several paragraphs of text summing up the history and the virtues of the place. The Little Bookroom, a New York press, has published a number of small-format travel books along the same lines, but "Authentic Bistros," a translation of ""Au Vrai zinc Parisien,"" may be the best, because the text lives up to the photographs. Mr. Thomazeau rules out a lot of the places that I might think of as bistros. His bistros are more bars than restaurants, with a few tried-and-true home-style dishes making up the usually very short menu. all have a few things in common. They make a good jambon-beurre (ham and butter on a crusty baguette), and they have soul..." --William Grimes, "The New York