This French-Egyptian run restaurant consistently serves good French bistro classics, with steaks that melt in your mouth.

Several bistro classics can be recommended among main courses.

The seared skate, a bistro classic, comes with a crunchy polenta crust and an ingenious ravigote of capers and sweetbreads.

The kitchen stumbles when it attempts bistro classics like navarin of lamb and carbonade of beef.

The only misstep among the main courses on the regular menu was that bistro classic, steak frites.

Paris is as famous for bistro classics such as coq au vin and celeriac rémoulade as for Michelin-star cooking.

The menu, a rote recitation of bistro classics, certainly hadn't changed.

Only drawer No. 4 remains active, accommodating a 40-year client who hates the modern paper napkins and dines there every Sunday on that bistro classic, boeuf bourguignon.

This bustling, sometimes loud, always friendly spot offers all the bistro classics and has the bistro look down pat.

The informal 85-seat restaurant will be a carbon copy of Bistro Cassis with a moderately priced menu of bistro classics.