bon viveur

bon viveur

A connoisseur of food and wine. Primarily heard in UK. Janine is such a bon viveur that she would never dream of serving her guests boxed wine at her party.
See also: bon
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • wine up
  • whole bunches
  • white wine
  • BYOW
  • pop wine
  • belt the grape
  • red wine
  • have a snoot full
  • cask wine
  • jambled
References in periodicals archive
She introduced viewers to French recipes and gourmet-style dishes although she was also quick to show inexpensive ways of making them and brought out cookbooks with titles like Cooking with Bon Viveur and Modest but Delicious.
Flavours of the past; Marion McMullen looks at how TV chefs have changed the way we cook as people get busy in the kitchen preparing Christmas feasts for the big day
"That experience may have explained an aspect of Judge Orme's later life - a reputation as something of a bon viveur and a warm and generous host," Mr Tucker said.
Judge in hat row to retire after 21 years
We also love Marcel Lucont, the suave French bon viveur and raconteur who pops up to give us British some sex tips.
WE LOVE COMEDY
MATTY RYAN, the Thurles-based jeweller, bon viveur and racing figure, died in hospital in Clonmel early on Sunday.
O'Grady leads tributes to 'marvellous character' Ryan; Matty Ryan: topped poll of Ireland's party people
But Keith Floyd struck a chord with the public with his charm and his image as a bon viveur, and somehow it seemed exactly right that he would die after a generous lunch with a lady friend, washed down with ample quantities of various wines.
OBITUARY; Keith Floyd
Friends said bon viveur Mr Hesketh died as he had lived - with a glass of wine in one hand and a cigar in the other.
COCKTAIL OF DEATH
So this morning, Waverley doffs his hat in the direction of Michael Fry, bon viveur, historian, journalist and a Tory with a refreshing sense of the absurd.
Waverley
He was a notable bon viveur and he had a string of affairs.
Living with Eagles: The Life and Times of Marcus Morris
MY friend Barry Porter, Tory MP and bon viveur, died last week.
NELSON'S COLUMN
Ann-Janine Murtagh, executive publisher at HarperCollins Children's Books, said: "I feel privileged to have been Michael Bond's publisher - he was a true gentleman, a bon viveur, the most entertaining company and the most enchanting of writers.
Author Michael dies, 91
? Upper class bon viveur, raconteur and Southerner .
IT'S PETER
John, Artist, Teacher and Bon Viveur, on November 18th.
Deaths
A SIDEWAYS GLANCE AT WHAT'S ON PAUL Heaton has always been something of the bon viveur.
GOING OUT
A man who ends a night's revelling with a drink at dawn is regarded as a bon viveur, but one who starts the day with a glass at the same time is a sorry case.
An early trip towards ruin
It would have said Clement Freud on the dustjacket, but it wasn't until I was a lot older that I gained the fluency with numbers to put two and two together and realise that it was the Clement Freud, broadcaster, journalist, jockey, raconteur, politician, bon viveur and, now, sadly, none of these things as he died last week.
Steve Dennis