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I'm not going four ways, it will immediately be a burger and a draft beer for lunch.
Pierre is a 33-year-old young man who works, and therefore eats lunch, in Paris.
Father of three children, his life is perfectly happy as it is, but the reopening of the bistros will bring this happiness to a high point.
His program for the reopening of the terraces on Wednesday 19 May is thus all outlined.
And for the future too.
"I think I will have lunch on the terrace every day until Christmas 2022"
, continues Pierre, before slipping:
"it will be festive"
.
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Since Emmanuel Macron's announcements concerning the reopening of restaurants, which will run from May 19 to the end of June, lovers of bistros and restaurants are stamping their feet: everyone has their own little program, sometimes already well in mind for several weeks.
Hares in the sun
Lunch in the sun is also what Guillaume, 59 years old and asset manager in Reims (Marne), is missing.
He has already reserved two tables of six at the restaurant "Au petit comptoir" with the friends of his group of gastronomy lovers "Les lièvres".
Regional of the stage, they will obviously share a bottle of champagne to celebrate this newfound freedom.
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Charles is a robust 30-year-old Parisian, rugby player, biker and rather party animal. He planned to let go, "
a little
", this evening of May 19. "
I have an operational committee at work at 9 am the next day, luckily I will be masked,
" he warns, smiling. With his old boarding friends, he plans to revive a bistro drink that has been reviving in recent years: the Picon. Mixed with beer, this bitter orange liqueur whose bottle smells like the 80s will do wonders for Charles and his comrades. Be careful, however, if this first evening is dedicated to his friends, Charles has not forgotten to be romantic. "
My second evening will be with my partner and a few Spritzes, on a pretty terrace in the sun."
Alcohol abuse being dangerous for health, let's move on to Henry, a thirty-something whose desire is not lacking, but who will be deprived of the first rays of sun on the terrace this year.
For a good cause.
“
My wife is going to give birth on June 1, and I can't afford to catch the Covid two weeks before, or even two weeks after giving birth,
” he says.
When you dig, he admits that he might allow himself a drink, very discreetly, if you really push him.
The neighborhood
Jean enjoys spending time in his neighborhood in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, with his two brothers and his cousin Paul.
And there is no reason for that to change.
The cafe on the corner of his street, where his cousin Bébert works, will do just fine.
"
It will make it possible to be closer to home at the time of the curfew
," he argues, full of common sense.
For this return to the terraces, Jean has planned to have a cocktail.
"
It doesn't matter which one as long as it's very complicated to do,
" says the one who has already thought about his business and wants to consume a mixture that he cannot drink at home.
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There is also Marie, 51, who has already planned to open the terraces with her husband for breakfast, to close with a bunch of friends - and her husband - for a drink, and why not a lunch. With a friend.
"It will not be a terrace but terraces on that day!" »
, She laughs. Or Lætitia and Capucine, 27 and 31, who have already planned everything, and "
for several weeks
" for the first. She will find the friends with whom she had already celebrated the end of the first confinement last May. Again, a Spritz will be ordered first. As for the second, her agenda may quickly explode, since she is already planning a terrace with her Jeannot at Raymonde, a pizza and a raspberry mojito with her Laura at the Bel ami and a good restaurant with her Victoire aux Batignolles. And you, who will be your first drink for?
