Restaurant

Verb + restaurant

  • work in a restaurant

  • try out a (new) restaurant

  • recommend a restaurant

  • run a restaurant

  • restaurants serve food

Adjective + restaurant

  • a (Chinese) restaurant

  • an expensive restaurant

  • a cheap restaurant

  • the restaurant is fully booked

Noun + of + restaurant

  • a chain of restaurants

  • a (quiet) corner of the ...

  • the non-smoking section of the restaurant

Exercise

1. verb + restaurant

  1. We're going to try out that new Chinese restaurant in Walton Road tonight. It got a really good review in the paper last week.

  2. The hotel has a restaurant which serves good food all day.

  3. She's working in a restaurant at the moment, but she's a teacher by profession. I don't understand why!

  4. Can you recommend a good restaurant near here? I really like Mexican food, but if there's no Mexican restaurant, Italian will do.

  5. My uncle runs a busy restaurant in the centre of town and he works all hours.

2. adjective + restaurant

  1. My boss took me out for a five-course dinner in an expensive restaurant. It cost a fortune! But the food was out of this world!

  2. Do you know any good Italian restaurants round here? I'm in the mood for a pizza.

  3. The area round the university is full of cheap restaurants for students.

  4. Unfortunately, the Apollo restaurant was fully booked at lunchtime, so we went in the evening instead.

3. noun + preposition + restaurant

  1. She owns a successful chain of restaurants in England and Wales. - b

  2. We found a table in a quiet corner of the restaurant. - c

  3. We ate in the non-smoking section of the restaurant. - a

Notes

  1. Note the verbs we use to describe starting up a restaurant:

  • I see they're opening a new seafood restaurant next door.

  • He set up a vegetarian restaurant with his brother-in-law.

  • Fast-food restaurants are shooting / springing up everywhere.

  1. Note these common expressions:

  • The restaurant is under new management.

  • The restaurant is famous for its pasta / curries / French cuisine.

  1. If you want to recommend a restaurant to someone, here are some ways of doing so:

  • It's got a very good reputation.

  • It gets a very good name.

  • It's famous for its seafood.

  1. If a restaurant is licensed, it serves alcohol.

  2. Restaurants which serve food to take away, are often called fast-food restaurants:

    No wonder so many children are fat! They eat nothing but take-aways from fast-food restaurants!

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