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restaurant
1 places where you can go for a meal
2 having a meal in a restaurant
see also MEAL, EAT
1 places where you can go for a meal
- a place where you go to buy and eat a meal: restaurant
We went out to an Italian restaurant to celebrate my birthday.
- a restaurant that serves food that can be eaten quickly or taken away: fast food restaurant
- a place where you can buy meals to take away: take-away (AmE take-out restaurant); the food that you buy: take-away (AmE take-out)
Is there a Chinese take-away near here? ◎ We got an Indian take-away.
- a small restaurant that serves light meals: café
- (in the United States) a small restaurant beside a main road: diner
- a restaurant where you collect your food yourself from a counter (= a long flat surface): self-service restaurant
- a place in a school, office, factory, etc where people can buy and eat cheap meals: cafeteria, canteen
- a flat piece of wood, plastic, metal, etc with raised edges that you use for carrying food, drink, etc: tray
- a small place where you can buy sandwiches or other light food: snack bar, sandwich bar
- a small place that serves coffee and sometimes light food: coffee bar
- (in Britain) a place that serves alcoholic drinks and sometimes food: pub
Pub food has improved a lot recently. ◎ pub lunches
- a place which serves wine and sometimes light food: wine bar
- a café at a station, or a place where passengers can buy food and drink on a train: buffet
Is there a buffet car on this train?
※ more on pubs BAR/PUB
2 having a meal in a restaurant
- to go to a restaurant for a meal: eat* out, go* out for a meal, (formal) dine out
We're eating out tonight so I don't have to cook. ◎ Let's go out for a meal.
- to ask a restaurant to keep a table for you: book (a table)
I've booked a table for four (= for four people) .
- if there are no free tables, the restaurant will tell you that they are fully booked, booked up
'Can I book a table for eight o'clock tonight?' 'I'm sorry, madam, I'm afraid we're fully booked.'
- the man/woman who brings you your food: waiter/waitress; the most senior (= chief) waiter: head waiter
- to ask for food: order sth
Could we order some drinks first?
- when the waiter/waitress writes down the food that you want, he/she takes* your order
I wish the waiter would hurry up and take our order.
- the waiter/waitress who takes your order and brings you your food serves you; noun (U): service
We waited ages to get served. ◎ I'm not going there again - the service was terrible.
- the list of food that you can choose from in a restaurant: menu
Could I see the menu, please? ◎ What's on the menu today?
- a type of food prepared in a particular way: dish
an Indian dish
- if each dish on the menu has its own price, the menu is à la carte
- the list of wine that you can order in a restaurant: wine list
※ different parts of a meal MEAL
※ paying for a meal
- when you want to pay for your meal you ask for the bill (AmE check)
Can I have the bill please?
- the extra amount of money you sometimes have to pay for service: service charge
Is the service charge included?
- extra money that you pay to a waiter, etc to thank them for their work: tip; to give sb a tip: tip (sb) (some money)
Shall we leave a tip? ◎ How much should I tip the waiter?
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