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PISTOU BISTRO

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f hidden places use  to keep secrets  or treasure,  PISTOU BISTRO is one of them.

Never mind. The Village is named after its location away from deafening streets and crowded malls, into an L-shaped passageway if you want to move fast or UN noticecl. The Village is still   the rendezvous to businessmen also aware of quietness. Pistou Bistro the name of which sounds Mayan or Indian anyway opens among other stores, beauty salons and Asian restaurant, some of them not as big as a four square feet office.

Globe went over there to meet the owner M. Guy Ghetti.

At first glance, Pistou Bistro has nothing to do with  ordinary   places filled with people eager to chat and sip coffee at lunch time as usual between 12 H. A.M.  and 2 H. PM. Pistou  anyway doesn’t open so long, because, M. Ghetti tells, “ our clientele is mostly court employees and French who want to taste even aboard  the Provence cooking.. 

Inside, Pistou Bistro has a sober touch with paintings and photographies hanging on the walls. With a capacity for 70 persons, Pistou Bistro serves now only 40, given the faltering  economy.  But, as if he were to express his sense of measure, Pistou opens only for less than 4 hours, from 11 A.M. to 2 P.M.. “ my family coming first” M. Ghetti reminds.

A man in his late forties or early fifties, M. Ghetti  has a lot of international experience as a  bakery  owner  proud of his French background in cooking.  “ We use most of the time natural ingredients  such as herbs and spices”, without heavy sauces and something else. Our cooking is mainly French, from Provence or the French Riviera” he adds.  M. Ghetti is an  pastry cook expert in which  he excels  since 15 years. Once he came fifth in international competition grouping representatives from 32 countries.  His glamorous years  revolve  back to Monaco and the Riviera. This is not  for nothing that M. Ghetti smiles with some wrinkles at the corner of his eyes. He’s not from the last rain neither from yesterday.

When asked about his cooking, M. Ghetti  gets the flow. He masters his art with eloquence. Words such as “flambé an l’alcool, creamy preparation, and dish au whisky and la vodka’ pour like by themselves. There also M. Ghetto advertises the so-called “French Touch”. Pistou  Bistro offers you a unique experience, reads a pamphlet. This is what we call Bistonomy.

More time is needed to appraise in detail the menu at Pistou. To say the least,  keep in mind that the owner chooses a new menu everyday, or to be more precise, “we propose a New Daily Menu Everyday”. Incredible, but real. “You can pick between one poultry dish, one meat, one pasta and three different fish” to say nothing about what you can get by adding $ 1 only. M. Ghetti marvels at serving his customers something new every day. Who was saying  one day that cooking and eating were  an art ?

Pistol Bistro is there to confirm it.

 Ph: 305-577-6156

 WWW: pistoubistro.com