Bistro vs. Tavern

Bistronoun

A small restaurant.

Bistronoun

A small bar or pub.

Bistronoun

a small informal restaurant, especially one serving alcoholic beverages.

Bistronoun

a nightclub.

Bistronoun

a small informal restaurant; serves wine

Bistro

A bistro or bistrot , is, in its original Parisian incarnation, a small restaurant, serving moderately priced simple meals in a modest setting with alcohol. Bistros are defined mostly by the foods they serve.

Tavernnoun

A building containing a bar licensed to sell alcoholic drinks, and usually offering accommodation; an inn.

Tavernnoun

A public house where travelers and other transient guests are accomodated with rooms and meals; an inn; a hotel; especially, in modern times, a public house licensed to sell liquor in small quantities.

Tavernnoun

a building with a bar that is licensed to sell alcoholic drinks

Tavernnoun

an inn or public house.

Tavern

A tavern is a place of business where people gather to drink alcoholic beverages and be served food, and (mostly historically) where travelers would receive lodging. An inn is a tavern that has a license to put up guests as lodgers.